Interesting that they cut the actual fibers by hand at any stage, even if they used appropriate shears and knives. The one CF manufacturing facility I’ve seen had the cutting automated, and they aren’t mass manufacturers, either, though their production numbers are definitely higher than custom F1 parts.

Why is that strange? Was the pattern cutting done by hand or machine?

Unless they keep the corn-fields right next to the freeways, this is still a terrible route. I’ve driven LA to Boston through the Midwest, and cannot exaggerate how mind-numbingly dull the parts between Colorado and Pennsylvania are as a drive.

First day on the job as a student assistant to some fancy-pants applied physics lab in college, my boss asked me to hand-tap some holes in copper-ceramic plates.

If he had a gun, there wouldn’t.

Well, this was on here recently. An 80’s-tastic body on a 60’s rear-wheel-drive platform with the crappy plastics of the 80’s to boot. You never said it had to be available in the Western world.

Have you been to Washington State? Pretty sure Subarus are the state car. Also, Oregon and (Northern) California are crawling with them.

Have you heard one in real life?? It’s still my ultimate dream truck/useless vehicle. The G500 is just too refined and practical compared to this beautiful, useless beast.

Sorry, but that’s simplistic bullshit. Power is not “solely vested within the sole person” of anyone. The Leader (Supreme is a misnomer) has the most power of any single individual, but not complete power.

It seems now that most of the people who lived through and remember the Nazis have passed, people are much more willing to compare any violent group of people with the Nazis. From the way politicians refer to Iran, to teens referencing overbearing parents, and even the phrase “grammar nazi”, the word Nazi has lost…

Yup. Just a word of warning to anyone who gets it: be very, very careful with the glass. If it so much as gets tapped by a metal utensil while you’re washing dishes in the sink it can crack.

Yup. Just a word of warning to anyone who gets it: be very, very careful with the glass. If it so much as gets…

Because it’s easier to continue to paint one side as evil and the other good, especially when “good” has deep ties to the military industrial complex. “Journalists” these days aren’t too interested in explaining the background of Houthis in Yemen and like to act like as if this war was something that started two…

According to Wiki, it got beat by the Nighthawk by 3 years, but you’re totally right. One of the main expectations of the plane was that the inherent instability of the forward-swept design would increase its maneuverability. To keep it under control while maneuvering, though, they had to use a lot of computer…

And just because they use it doesn’t mean there is any real need for it to be used. I doubt Iraq or Syria would have had a significantly better chance of attacking American pilots flying F-16s, F-18s, or F-15s, and that’s assuming they actually decided to attack.

Funnily enough, Iraq and Afghanistan were the reason the Comanche was cancelled, since they needed to funnel its funding somewhere else.

That plane is one of the best examples of the ridiculous things you can do when integrating the complexity of composites into the design, rather than trying to fight it.

Just a warning, for flight updates around crunch time, don’t trust it. It, and Google’s general flight update service, has been late with its updates by up to 45 minutes in my experience. I would recommend flightaware, as I’ve found they update sooner than even the airline’s own website.

I wonder if everybody else actually managed to read your picture...

Its flight info is very unreliable, though, as I have found out the hard way. It’s about 45 minutes behind flightware (which also has an app, as I just realized).

In the left lane of a 2-lane interstate, no less.