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With over 30 US patents issued for engineering and manufacturing inventions, Henry G. Dietz, founder of the company that bears his name, has developed yet another innovation that helps train up-and-coming mariners the operation of single or twin screw powerboats. The Powerboat Handling Trainer includes a control station that duplicates the steering controls of a full-sized twin-engine powerboat--two each clutch and throttle throttle

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, and a steering wheel. The control houses the FM transmitter A device that adapts an MP3 player or other portable audio source to a car's audio system via the FM radio. It retransmits the analog output of the headset jack as one of several FM channels, which is picked up by the car's antenna. Also called an "FM modulator. , which broadcasts to the 1.14-metre twin-engine boat model that is powered by a 12-Volt sealed gel battery. The system is used to instil in·still also in·stil  
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 confidence in performing a variety of basic and complicated manoeuvres needed to safely pilot a boat away from its berth and return. Dietz products were used on the very first US satellite, on space shuttle missions <onlyinclude> This is a list of missions flown by space shuttles. As of 2006, only the United States has flown human spaceflight shuttle missions, in the Space Shuttle program, while the Soviet Union flew one unmanned flight of the Buran.  and are currently being evaluated for use in the space station. During World War II, Henry Dietz supervised the development of the Loran system--the forerunner A family of ATM adapters from Marconi (formerly Fore Systems). See Marconi.  of today's GPS. The company's Powerboat Handling Manual is available for free download at www.powerboat-handling.com. (Dietz)

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