The latest types of aircraft engines coujd run for 300 hours without overhaul, and could thus cover 30,000 miles at cruising speed.
The feathers for Badminton shuttlecocks are obtained from geese, each bird supplying two feathers only from the tips of the wings. There are sixteen feathers in a shuttlecock.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 80, 28 December 1928, Page 3
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