112mph in an old floaty Town Car sounds frightening, and I would be frightened to see a granny mobile with a tissue box in the rear doing that.

If you’re not first, you’re last.

Is it boasting to call your “stick” your “four on the floor”?

Conversely, those lightweight high fuel economy vehicles really don’t do any damage to the road that would require fixing. Forget gasoline taxes. Make the weight/axle/distance taxes more widespread, and crank them up.

There are satellites that will give immediately give you the where and when off the heat bloom of any sizeable launch vehicle. The RADAR just gives you better resolution.

What ever happened to just throwing more people at it?

Maximum Mach number is pretty easy to calculate, and it’s not going to be Mach 4. The intake cones and aerodynamic surfaces cannot breach the oblique shock coming off the nose spike and chines without serious consequences. Some simple geometry and a convenient engineering shock table will tell you at what point the…

Both aircraft would rip themselves to pieces, either through compression heating or shock ingestion, before they hit their excess power limit.

Steam catapults are pretty simple.

‘cept sea-going steam ships haven’t used coal in the last century.

You can spell BOOBS on the calculator even without rolling it.

No it doesn’t. It was two straight lanes at the light, and it continues to be two straight lanes at the point of the accident. There’s some weird lines in the road that appear through a median, and a weird turn arrow that wants you to bound over the median. Weird stuff going on...

The ramp car isn’t going far. The rear wheel suspension is destroyed.

The rear axle is snapped. The left rear wheel is bent under the car and being dragged. The whole rear end of that thing is going to have to be rebuilt.

Used to be we just called it “twincharging”...

Are they fully decoupled? I thought those systems had a clutch between the turbine and compressor.

That... doesn’t make a whole lot of sense... They used stored compressed air, to drive the turbine, to drive the compressor, to produce compressed air for the engine? Seems rather Rube Goldberg of them.

I have had the concept of placing a R/C jet engine into the intake

used his mathematics background to increase the power of the Merlin’s centrifugal turbocharged engine

Well... the coilpacks anyway...