Abstract: Entertainment systems for aircraft and other vehicles are described having a plurality of media players. The media players collectively store a full content set, with each media player storing only a fraction of the full content set. Each of the media players can be configured to index the full content set, such that media players can obtain missing content.

Abstract: Entertainment systems for aircraft and other vehicles are described having a plurality of media players. The media players collectively store a full content set, with each media player storing only a fraction of the full content set.

Abstract: An in-flight entertainment system that enables a passenger to consume and interact with content presented on an aircraft display screen. Passenger devices wirelessly connect to host computing devices that are kept on the aircraft, which enables the passenger devices to consume in-flight entertainment. Content presented on the passenger device can enable the passenger to interact with content presented on the aircraft display screen, and vice versa. Passenger devices can access in-flight entertainment stored on or accessed by a host computing device via a preinstalled web browser.

Abstract: An atomizer wheel for the atomization of slurries of highly abrasive materials which includes a hub secured to a rotating shaft, a wheel bottom connected to the hub, a cylindrical side wall connected with the wheel bottom and a cover plate to form a bowl-shaped feed supply chamber. The side wall includes a number of openings fitted with bushings to provide nozzles which eject droplets of a suspension or slurry provided to the bowl-shaped feed supply chamber. The inner end of each of the bushings extend inwardly from the side wall of the wheel and the inner end or at least a portion of the inner end of at least one of the bushings extends radially inwardly from the side wall a greater distance than the inwardly extending ends of other bushings.