Torch would be moving the engines to the middle of the airframe for better space utilization.

It’s an idea so blatantly ridiculous that I can only assume airbus engineers are trolling the patent office.

Thats brilliant! We’ll equip each passenger with a small personal jetpack module, and strap them directly to the wings. This way each passenger may disembark upon reaching the destination of their choice, to be obediently followed by their rocket powered luggage.

I can’t watch that without singing “america, fuck yeah!”

That sounds sensible, but lacking in flair.

Here at doubledollar consulting, we are all about pleasing our customers. So we’ll modify the proposal to replace the parachutes on the arriving modules with retro rocket braking systems.

That’s good, but needs a second module, underneath the plane, for cargo.

If you want to bring exhaust pressure up, its easier to jump the air into the exhaust.

Because in order to combat lag by pushing compressed air into the intake manifold, you’d need a really large air tank. Say your engine is a 3 liter, running at 1500 rpm. That means, at wide open throttle and no intake losses, its breathing in 3 liters of air 750 times a minute. Or 37 liters per second.

The kidnapper is an ex cop, and the child’s father.

I don’t know any details about that particular case, but most amber alerts are issued for kidnapping that are essentially extra legal custody disputes, where one parent that does not have custody rights runs off with the kid.

Is it protomold? I’ve been wanting to give them a try.

I’ll forgive FO4 all its flaws save the glitchiness. Seriously guys the game crashes every time you step near an area of the map which is a requirement for many missions. How in the world did that make it past development?

I would think that it would be in VW’s interest to hire an independent lab to certify that it’s fixes work. The cost of testing should be negligable to them, if it works they can shout it from the rooftops and point to a respected independent lab, and if it doesn’t they have a chance to try something else before they…

3d printing does have great potential in manufacturing if materials can improve and multi materials become common place. If you could, for example, print conductors directly into your housing, thus eliminating wiring harnesses, 30 minute print times become rather reasonable (assuming the housing can be made…

It depends on how the production operation is structured, but yes, per piece costs could well be as low as you are saying. I was trying to make my case using more conservative numbers, where the pieces would be molded by a small shop that wasn’t very good at what they do.

Visions of the future aside, it’s a terrible idea. If you were to mold this part conventionally, you’re looking at a $20k-$75k in tooling costs, and $0.25-$5.00 per part costs, with a cycle time of well under a minute (the trade off will be at how many parts the tool produces at a time, the more parts, the more…

No Fairlady?

If I read that joke right, it’s really in poor taste.

The braided sheath is there to protect the inner hose from abrasion, such as where the line might be rubbing against the body on every single bump you pass over. It’s not the best way to do things, which is why you don’t see these on newer cars, but it is reasonably good at what its designed to do.