The first AMPS phones, bagphones and hard mounts, they had the full 3 watts versus 600 milliwatts for handhelds, plus a little altitude gets you line of sight advantages.

5 times the power, it probably did work.

The giant slug of water that burst through the walls of the pressure vessel is also incompressible, rather heavy, and moving absurdly quickly.

They are flat deposits of charred goo on the end bells of the vessel, since it seems to have failed in the middle.

It unfortunately does not translate that way.

However, ‘michi gan’ does actually... ACTUALLY... translate to “road cancer” according to google translate.

If they’re serious about educational purposes, all they have to do is take their existing product, fit it to an enclosure roughly the size of a cereal box, and secure it in place with ballast-filled potting. It would probably weigh around ten pounds and be too large to obscure, and trying to remove the electronics…

LISTEN CAREFULLY:

The “gas” part of “gas turbine” does NOT mean “gasoline”. It literally means gas, i.e. hot air... lots of hot air made by burning fuel (JP-8, diesel, gasoline, kerosene, perfume, whiskey, vodka, WD-40, whatever you’ve got that combusts cleanly).

The headline is.... weird. It’s also not addressed…

There are these strange little buttons on the latches that tend to disengage the safety belt buckle when pressed... bizarre, I know, but that’s what they do.

Since when are chlortabs and zyrtec sedating? I use those specifically because they *don’t* sedate me...

As much as I despise asking anything of congress, is it time for legislation for regulating level crossings where trains exceed a given speed?

Thinking a) barriers that cannot be crossed or bypassed when deployed, b) interlocks so if a barrier is held from deploying a stop signal is issued to the train, and c) similar…

Somebody draw these guys up a wheel-driven cable that spins a table with a coleman lantern, yellowed lens, and reflector...

Your last sentence is because it’s not linked to the MkI. That’s a very old trope and quite wrong.

Chrysler bought 1.7l engines from VW for the first few years of L platform production. That’s the end of cooperation there... the Omni/Horizon were developed alongside the Simca/Talbot Horizon in the late middle 1970's…

Turns out 455 tonnes is cumulative over 22 years, 1998-2022.

That back-figures to an average of 37 million liters of 100LL per year, but sales figures are far from linear, down to less than 10 million liters per year for the last half decade or so with a recent +5 million spike.

So additional levels for 15 mil L/annum …

Jesus f’ing christ, how do Bloomberg, you, and the study obfuscate a simple fact so thoroughly that it took 30 minutes of scouring to find what the problem was? Bloomberg’s paywall didn’t help, had to find the data on that author’s twitter feed.

The 455 tonne potential figure is CUMULATIVE FOR THE LAST 22 YEARS.

You…

Because the FAA has to approve new fuels, new overhaul procedures, test specific aircraft for compatibility with new fuels, etc. All that requires time and money (LOTS of money). Apparently someone had it, because November of last year FAA approved GAMI’s G100UL unleaded fuel and started issuing STCs (basically…

215 million gallons US... since deliveries of 100LL have been tracked by the EPA as being around 400-500 thousand gallons per day for decades, and taking 450K gallons per day out to a year gives a bit over 164 million gallons per year...

Yeah, there’s a sniff test problem with the numbers, unless British light aviation…

Entertainment arguments aside, were there a truly large-scale infrastructure destruction incident somewhere, AM transmissions are going to be the only way to reliably penetrate 50+ miles into the affected zone. If there are special instructions for those who are now trying a one-way trip to safety in their electric…

You’ll see it happen anywhere traffic is heavy and rain is rare. Every other factor could be the same as anywhere else, but the above will do. Why? Because the road gets coated in oil and other vehicular detritus and that starts to come up when it’s wet.

Long story short, the road’s ‘unwashed’ and gets supremely slick…

Rust and probably a dead/partially disassembled engine. No reason not to find a junkyard dog for this test, since it’s only about the test rig and not the vehicle itself.

Hell, they probably only washed it for the picture value and not to have atomized lichens flung around the place.

It still comes down to crush zones, or in other words the deceleration. The vehicle is heavier but you weigh the same.

A 3k lb vehicle with no crush zones is still going to give the occupants a more violent deceleration than a 10k vehicle with a large crush structure... but a crushable 3k vehicle will outperform a 10k…

With all the diverse, myriad, and sundry things that GM shops are tasked with fixing, of course they’re all expert/god level technicians.

They’ve had practice.

It could have been factory fresh and still gone down because a 4000kg P-63 donkeypunches it right in the rear of the wing root structure.