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I have a problem with this statement from the article. On approach and landing, the engines are at much lower power settings as the pilot is trying to bleed airspeed off. So I’m not sure how this phase of flight is contributing much to total energy usage and emissions.

In aerospace applications, most wires are white and Teflon wrapped.

A blatant copy of the SAAB EV-1 from 1985! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_EV-1

This takes me back to my college days at NC State where I watched Tom ‘Googs’ Gugliotta (6' 10", our center during Jim Valvano’s final seasons) play tennis against Chris Corchiani (6', our point guard and one half of ‘Fire and Ice’ with Rodney Monroe). With his height, his serve was boomin’ hitting well in the…

Smells like ‘Nope’.

It was GM with ignition switches. Ford just uses crappy CVT’s and dual-clutch automatics.

Last August, my wife and I took our two boys to FL for a week flying from RDU to FLL. The tickets cost us around $1200. At the gate, the agent came on the PA saying that the flight was oversold and he was looking for volunteers to take the same flight a day later. I went up and asked what the compensation was and he…

The design of those is actually quite simple. Similar technology has been flying for 40 years to quiet the noise from various parts of a jet engine (my day job).

During a typical top fuel drag run, the engine uses about 9 gallons of nitromethane. It is sprayed into the cylinders at such a rate that the engine is on the verge of hydrolock during the entire run. If you put the fuel into one gallon buckets, you couldn’t kick the buckets over and spill the fuel out as fast as it’s…

Also also also Jalopnik: “What’s the deal with these blank covers where a button is supposed to be?”

He only started flying NG’s in November 2017. Can you get that many hours in a year and a half? FAA rules only allow 75 per month. That’s 900/year. Granted, it’s not the US, but even if you doubled it, that’s no where close to half of his 8000.

The ‘senior’ captain had only been certified for the type for less than 2 months. I would hardly call him ‘well experienced’. I am intrigued by your tailstrike theory given eyewitness reports of smoke and debris coming from the plane before it crashed.

Not exactly and especially not for cars where bluff-body aerodynamics are in play. The usual purpose of a VG is to generate a flow structure that will pull higher-momentum air that is away from the vehicle surface closer to the body to energize the flow and delay or prevent flow separation. For aircraft, they are…

Take a look at his braking point for Turn 1. It’s AFTER the last marker. The margin for error between braking too much or too little must be in the hundredths of a second. Unreal.

With its’ sealed underside, expect plastics and gaskets to start failing from heat soak after the warranty expires. The oil pan gasket on my E60's N54 motor weeped to the tune of a quart of oil every 7500 miles before I replaced it at 100k miles. Having never done such a thing in all the years of owning cars, I asked…

Preach on, Brother! I’m getting fed up with systems on cars that help the manufacturer eek out a couple more MPG on the EPA tests so their CAFE numbers look good but cost way more than their benefit in fuel savings when they fail. Electric water pumps, heavier starters for stop/start, sealed underbodies for better…

And now......It’s not Patrick George’s E23, but it IS its’ drunk racing cousin....

My wife had a friend in college who was an awful driver. She’d been in 6 accidents and totaled 2 cars since getting her license. They took a trip to DC with some friends and my wife volunteered to take the first driving shift in the friends car. When she got in, she noticed that all the mirrors were way out of wack…

Quick, Sherman, to the Way-Back Machine!!!