JP Jr. was well respected in the racing community. JP Sr. was a scary, murderous rage monster who might have killed his own wife.
You are literally using the term “unstable” inaccurately. The 737 Max is not statically or dynamically unstable, by the definitions of those terms. The issue is that it has a different stick force/alpha profile from the prior variant when getting to stall-level alphas, that affected how pilots might react to it if…
I’m sorry I’m late to the party, but I might be able to describe the sales situation of this airplane. I’m surprised that it is priced as high as it is; I think the seller is counting on novelty value. It is beautifully appointed, although the flight instruments appear to be rather dated.
I’ve always been a huge Will Power fan, maybe because my CART/ChampCar bias. I understand that he can be a bit of a case sometimes, but when he’s firing on all cylinders (which I wish was more often), there’s no one better.
I won’t vouch for its exact accuracy (the Quattroporte/Daewoo one looks wrong), but I’m sure at least some of these are accurate: https://www.carthrottle.com/post/10-expensive-rides-with-parts-borrowed-from-cheap-cars/
Read Joe Haldeman’s “Forever War” if you haven’t already.
That’s sort of what the F-16 does, with its reclined seat. For a fighter, though, the pilot still needs a range of vision, so I don’t know if you could create a practical design that goes much further.
That after the first two Nobel awards this year, in usually overwhelmingly historically male-dominated fields, the women lead the men, I see it as at least a small sign of hope that things are trending positively. This has made 2020 look a little less bleak to me.
Interestingly, back in the day, some types of steel tubing (Reynolds 753 in particular) were very sensitive to being overheated. Before they would sell you production quantities, they would give you a single tubeset, and you had to build a frame and demonstrate you wouldn’t overheat the brazed areas. They said you…
Dynamic pressure varies with the square of velocity, so (all other things being equal and not figuring out compressibility/mach number effects), dynamic pressure varies with the square of velocity. Therefore, you need 10 times the velocity, not 100 to compensate for 1% pressure change. And you factor that Mars gravity…
Well, if you plan well, sandstorms should be avoidable, and they’re nothing like they were portrayed in “The Martian.” I agree that is impressive that they can do the equivalent of flying a drone at 29+km altitude on Earth (calculation of dynamic pressure vs lower gravity).
Here’s my understanding of this.
Sorry for necroposting, but my dad bought an Audi 100 LS in the mid ‘70s. The dealer was also the local Bricklin dealer, so my adolescent self thought these cars were the coolest things ever. For an elementary school project, I drew a picture of a Bricklin funny car. Thank you for showing me the realization of my…
The earlier variants haven’t been made for years now. The only ones that have recently been on the line is the 747-8i and 8F, and as XT6Wagon mentions, only 8Fs are being made. They’re producing at a rate of one every 2 months, and there are 16 orders remaining, so it will be a little over 2 years before the line…
Interestingly, since the mid-2000s, there has been an annual traverse of vehicles and supplies, mostly oil for the generators, from the McMurdo station to the Amundsen-Scott station and back. The vehicles that enable this journey are much more mundane - mostly off-the-shelf tracked tractors. They drag their own living…
It took me a little while to realize that was an FW-11 - I didn’t realize how much I associated the car with the old Canon/Honda livery until now.
I’m fairly certain they based their links on that.
BTW, aerobatics, as regulated by the FAI internationally, is a gendered motorsport.