Pintle exotic metal alloys. For World War II aircraft with sideways-retracting main gear units, carefully set-up "pintle angles" for such axes of rotation during retraction and extension allowed the maingear struts to be raked forward while fully extended for touchdown and better ground handling, while permitting retraction into rearwards-angled landing gear wells in their wings to usually clear the forward wing spar for stowing while in flight. Pintle A pintle is a pin or bolt, usually inserted into a gudgeon, which is used as part of a pivot or hinge. Other applications include pintle and lunette ring for towing, and pintle
Power Pivot BI product, Power Pivot is intended to allow users with no specialized BI or analytics training to develop data models and calculations, sharing them either directly or through SharePoint document libraries. A feature in Power Pivot's Get & Transform (formally known as Power Query) includes a new formula language called M. It is a mashup query language designed to build queries that mashup data. It is similar to F-Sharp. According to Microsoft, it "is a mostly pure, higher-order, dynamically typed, partially lazy, functional language." Power Pivot first appeared around May 2010 as part of the SQL Server 2008 R2 product