A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years of aviation. While a biplane wing structure has a structural advantage over a monoplane, it produces more drag than a monoplane wing. Improved structural techniques, better materials and higher speeds made the biplane configuration obsolete for most purposes by the late 1930s.
In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring.
Marco Di Vaio is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker. A prolific goalscorer, in his long club career, Di Vaio scored over 200 league goals while playing for several clubs, mainly in Italy, as well as in France, Spain and Canada. At international level, Di Vaio represented the Italy national football team at Euro 2004.
Ruben Sosa Ardaiz is a Uruguayan former professional football forward. He was a member of the Uruguay national team with extended spells at Danubio, Zaragoza, Lazio, Inter Milan and Nacional.
Gregor Fučka is a Slovenian-Italian former professional basketball player and coach. A 215 cm forward-center, he was a both a Mister Europa and Euroscar laureate in 2000.
Amedeo Amadei was a professional Italian football player and manager, who played as a striker. Following his death in 2013, he was one of eleven members to be inducted into the A.S. Roma Hall of Fame. A fast and powerful forward, with a good touch, he is considered to be one of the best Italian strikers of all time. Amadei was known for his ability to run forward with the ball from midfield and find spaces in the opposing defence, as well as his prolific goalscoring, acrobatic ability in the air, and precise volleying, which allowed him to excel in the centre-forward role; due to his importance to Roma throughout his career, he was affectionately known by the fans as the "eighth King of Rome".
Giancarlo Galli, commonly known as Carlo Galli, was an Italian footballer who played as a striker.
Marcinkevičius is the masculine form of a Lithuanian surname. Its feminine forms are Marcinkevičienė and Marcinkevičiūtė. Notable people with the surname include:
Vilmantas Marcinkevičius is a Lithuanian painter. From 1989 to 1995 he studied in the department of painting at the Vilnius Academy of Art. The painter has held 30 personal exhibitions in Lithuania, Denmark, France, Sweden and the Faroe Islands. The artist participated in the Copenhagen, Cologne and tribal art fairs. Already in 1998 he starts a cooperation with Gallery NB in Viborg Denmark. He has continued to exhibit there at regular intervals.
Club Baloncesto Axarquía, more known by its sponsorship name of Clinicas Rincón Axarquía, was a basketball team based in Málaga, Andalusia.
Benediktas Vilmantas Rupeika is a Lithuanian politician. In 1990 he was among those who signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
Sergio Brighenti was an Italian football player and coach. As a professional player, Brighenti played as a forward at both club and international levels before beginning his coaching career.
Victoria Teresa DiMartino is an American former soccer player from Massapequa, New York. She was a forward for the Western New York Flash in the National Women's Soccer League, and a defender for the United States U-20 women's national soccer team.
Franco Cucinotta is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He spent his entire career in the Swiss Super League, and during the 1976–77 season, he was the top scorer in both the Swiss League, and the European Cup with FC Zürich.
BC Rytas-2 is a professional basketball club based in Vilnius, Lithuania. The team competes in the National Basketball League (NKL), the second division of Lithuanian basketball. Founded in 2003, it is the reserve team of Rytas Vilnius.
Federico Di Francesco is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Serie B club Palermo.
The 2013–14 Alexela Korvpalli Meistriliiga was the 89th season of the Estonian basketball league and the first under the title sponsorship of Alexela. Kalev/Cramo came into the season as defending champions of the 2012–13 KML season.
Giacomo Raspadori is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Napoli and the Italy national team.
Dilys is a Lithuanian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Vilmantas is a Lithuanian pre-Christian name that consists of two stems: -vil- is associated with the word viltis, "hope", -mant- is thought to be associated with the word manyti, "to think, "to know", as in mantus, "clever", "cunning".
