If your car can decelerate at 1 g, essentially you are hanging straight down.
If your car can decelerate at 1 g, essentially you are hanging straight down.
Original prototypes didn’t have the huge door, just the door that is now used for the main engine auxiliary inlet.
It it was real, that is one giant multi-rotor copter considering the winglet is about 8 feet long.
Definitely not a 76.
What about the time when Caddy thought they would have a chance at winning when the Audi car developed transmission problems. 4 minutes later, Caddy guys were standing there going “WTF just happened?” as the Audi car pulled out of the pit with a new transmission.
That was not how skunk works operated. Kelly Johnson expected his engineers to be on the shop floor the moment the drawings were released. Engineers would spend 1/3 of their time on the shop and the shop workers were expected to be in the design meetings.
What about no engineer should be more than 100 feet from the production floor?
Nope. Physical buttons allows you to type in a number without having to look down. Try that with a touch screen.
You forgot that it came with a set of tires designed for the car that were corner specific. Then the class action lawsuit happened and they changed the alignment specs so it took regular tires.
The problem with flying cars is the guy who takes your investment and spend it on everything but engineering.
He did land safely at another airport according to the FAA report. http://www.asias.faa.gov/pls/apex/f?p=1…
I had a squirrel run across the front wheel of my bicycle missing it by about 2 inches. When I turned back to see where the squirrel went, it was busy humping another squirrel.
If Nico really needed Lewis to speed up, all he would have to do is get into Lewis' mirrors and Lewis would respond accordingly.
Gee, she’s not even listed as a stunt driver in the crew section on IMDB.
A former coworker was stationed at Nellis. He said they told him that if he is out flying and gets into trouble, if he can see the runway at Area 51 and knows he can make it down safely, the only option he is allowed to take is to eject. He said if you go into Area 51, your career in the Air Force is over.
I would think this guy would get an award. This was posted many years ago. The guy came in to get new tires, explain to the tire tech how to lift the car. Tire tech didn't pay attention. Car ended up being totaled due to damage to the tub. Damage was something like $20K for the rear, another $20K for the front when it…
WRC used to point cameras in the driver's face to see how often they blink.