What’s shocking is the McLaren F1 built 20+ years ago is still lighter by over 100 lbs.

By the time FAA & NTSB is done with the investigation, it’ll be at least 1 year w/no fatalities, 2 years w/fatalities, no one will remember the incident.

All the stuff I’ve been involved in required producing the material certification documents to prove what materials you used. Can’t do that with stuff you get from the local hardware store.

...and flip the cart over and end up lying in the middle of the parking lot with milk spilling all over the place.

Doug did it. http://jalopnik.com/i-raced-my-hum…

Real world testing will always be around. There is a saying, “Garbage in equals garbage out.” If your computer models aren’t set up correctly, you will get an incorrect result. This is where real world testing comes in to validate the computer models. It doesn’t matter if you are doing a stress analysis or a flow…

That should be US designed helicopters. Airbus builds helicopters here, the ones designed by the Krauts spin counter clockwise, but the ones designed by the Frenchy spin clockwise. It’s funny to watch military guys transitioning to an Astar. Some of them are ingrained to push on the left pedal as they pull up the…

A lot of ballast with steel plates bolted down and also ammo cans bolted down filled with lead shot bags. We were testing in a S-92 and had the entire cabin aft of the rotor stacked with ballast to the maximum floor loading. It’s quite the workout for us engineers who sit behind computers to move that much weight.

Just mount it on the centerline.

Actually most are canted forward about 5 degrees, but mainly it is to keep the cockpit/cabin level in forward flight. I’ve done flight tests where we pushed the CG really far aft where we were nosed up until about 100 kts.

None the less, the test pilots I work with all prefer steam gauges over a digital display. It gives them a better sense of the rate of change. That’s the main reason they don’t like digital displays for flight testing. It’s harder to determine how fast something is changing and it also takes a fraction of a second…

Flight test aircraft tend to be devoid of fancy electronic displays mainly for safety reasons. All the steam gauges will still function if the aircraft loses electrical power. Things like the airspeed and altimeter are plumbed directly to the pitot tube with air lines. No fancy electronics.

I grew up in LA. I agree, nothing wrong with a automatic. You spend most of the time modulating the brakes from stopped to slow crawl. Driving a manual gets old really fast.

The Scooby is a capable car in the hands of the right driver. Now how about with a large Caddy like Nigel Mansell did.

You should see some of the new helicopters. Most of the new ones you have the throttle at off, hit the starter, once Ng and TOT reaches a certain level (engine lite off), advance to idle, once warmed up, advanced to fly. The newer ones like the AW139, the throttle is always on fly, you turn each of the barbecue knobs…

There are already electric motors on the bikes as many teams have switch to electric derailleurs. Easy way is to pull the bolts from the bottle cage and stick a bore scope inside to see the downtube, pull the seatpost for the seat tube.

Bill Kolb Jr. Subaru makes his own exclusive packages. Here’s the current weekly special. http://www.bkcars.com/new-subaru-wee… The Summit package includes AWD, 4 cylinder boxer engine, 32 mpg, leather interior, etc.

So you bought a car with an unlimited mileage one year warranty that you planned to daily to see what unlimited mileage means. Now you are going to park the car until winter is over. WTF? Let me borrow it, I can rack up an easy 20,000 miles by the time your winter is over.

Why not just paint a target on your back? All this would do is get idiots that will try to cut in front of you to cause a negligent collision and have their lawyers blame the car for causing the crash.

This is Austin. All the tech companies that escaped from California’s high corporate tax rate forced the liberal workers to migrate. The liberals had this brilliant plan to overtake Texas with their liberalism, but then realized they wouldn’t survive in Texas on their own. That is why they are all clumped together in…