I think Canada really missed a big opportunity on these ships. The local news here was saying that negotiations between Canada and France were in an advanced stage, but put on hold for Canada’s current election (in effect passing on the chance).
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The RCAF is planning on replacing its fixed-wing S&R aircraft, with the V-22 as an outside contender. I’m kind of surprised it’s not a front-runner, being that Canada’s S&R helicopters don’t have the range to cover any of the arctic, while its fixed-wing aircraft can only do identification or supply drops.
If immunity is waived by the home country, then the diplomat can be charged and jailed. If immunity is not waived, then the diplomat can be made persona non grata and expelled from the country.
Certainly calling it “the most advanced” is misplaced. But I believe that, relative to the era it was made in, it was the most advanced stealth jet the US has produced. Whereas previous ‘stealth’ aircraft were a exercise in ‘minimizing worst-practices’, such as avoiding corner-reflectors and the addition of chines,…
There are many cities with very-low headway automatic train control. Vancouver’s Skytrain offers same-or-better headways (as little as 85 seconds during rush hour) and handles twice the passengers, although it doesn’t have 24/7 service (has a 1-2 hour dead time late at night).
Certainly any fully-automated metro has a…
Although they aren’t planes per se, each of the Big Three have at some point in their histories manufactured missiles, space boosters or major subsystems for them, or satellites. The first Americans in space rode on Chrysler-designed and manufactured Redstone rockets. NATO’s most prolific short-range air-to-air…
Well, they’re not going to send their jets into war streaming out an early-90’s windbreaker-worth of pastel colored smoke, either. Its a parade.
A lot of safety problems are built into the locked-in concept of a car that we have. Imagine a hypothetical cartoon world where we had electric cars this whole time, running off of pantographs or something. Imagine if somebody today tried to propose gasoline as a potential fuel. What type of lunatic would put a tank…
Not necessarily the best way, but a proven, functional way. And in engineering terms, thats usually more important.
“Fluid dynamics allowed us to precisely tune the curvature and width of the pipe” is a very weird phrase. Fluid dynamics is what the curvature and width are tuning, not the tool used to do the tuning. Could that sentence have started with an omitted “computational”?
Its not the craziest observation platform. To photograph in infrared you only need to get above the water vapor, which you can mostly do in an aircraft. To photograph in x-ray, you gotta go higher. Its not unheard of to mount them on sounding rockets.
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External tank: 541763 [gal]
Solid boosters: 1000000 [kg] /1772 [kg/m^3] * 264 [gal/m^3] = 148984 [gal]
Total: 690747 [gal]
Distance travelled on STS-80 (the longest shuttle mission, 17 days, 16 hours): 6800000 [miles] (279 orbits)
Fuel milage: 9.84 miles per gallon
Bugatti Veyron's official combined economy: 10 miles per…
Poorly executed LRT is quite wasteful indeed, but they can be done very well and efficiently. In Canada, Calgary's CTrain, Vancouver's SkyTrain, and Toronto's streetcars are all light rail / light metro systems that handle in excess of 100,000,000 passengers per year - similar to a number of fully-fledged subways in…