A lot of fly-by-wire sticks in aircraft are pressure sensitive too, with no, or just a tiny bit of movement. If it’s good enough for jet fighters (the F-16, just to give an example) you can assume it is no problem to modulate.

Yup, this. Very much this. It’s bad enough to have injuries and fatalities on and near the track (the 6 killed spectators at the A Coruna rally come to mind) so it’s stupid beyond belief to pull a stunt like this when there is absolutely no need for it.

Go watch Requiem for a Dream

As mentioned: cost and weight. The floating hub system added some 4,5 kg / 9 lbs and was more expensive. It was also safer because the airbag will always be oriented the same way, regardless of steering wheel rotation. That allowed the engineers to make the airbag bigger and shape it to better absorb the body.

Only that’s the first gen C4 dash board. The second gen Citroën C4 is much more conventional. Sadly they ditched the fixed center steering wheel too.

The Unlimiteds go flashing through the racecourse, engines howling, air shearing, heat waves streaming. Four hundred eighty miles an hour is 8 miles a minute, and the elite racers take about 70 seconds to cover the 9.1 mile Reno course. If you could take a souped P-51 racer flying the circuit at Reno, slow time down,…

His mom deserves part of the credit. Sophie Kumpen raced go carts in the nineties at world championship level. She won the prestigious Margutti Trophy in 1995, besting guys like Giancarlo Fisichella and Jarno Trulli.

We’ll just agree to disagree then. The lines on the F-22 Raptor are much more constrained because that is what the stealth tech requires. All leading edges have to follow a certain direction in order for stealth to be effective.

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Well, if we have to stick to French design, I’ll have the Rafale over the Mirage. It’s a good thing taste is personal ;)

Whatever the outcome regarding who bested who, the Sukhoi SU-30 wins the beauty contest! Not that the Typoon is ugly, but the Russian bird is, in my eyes, the best looking fighter jet of our time.

Thanks for showing this.

That shit hole stone-age nation has a) old tech submarines, b) submarine launch ballistic missile tech and c) rudimentary nukes.

As a side note: Thank you YouTube for offering image stabilisation as a post-processing option!

Hang on, aren’t rally cars supposed to be road legal because they drive from stage to rally stage over public roads? They do come with licence plates after all...

Given that the shaft underneath it is white with frost, and you can see whisps of condensation coming from it, it’s safe to assume that they try to undo a thermal shrink-fit. Heat the compressor wheel to let it expand so that it comes free from the shaft that was contracted by (at a guess) submersing it in liquid…

Try to travel around if possible and visit other cities, towns, and the rural countryside.

Needs more

PIßWASSER?

He also gave the world the Audi A2.