What does he need one for anyway? That would just be putting his driver out of a job.

That’s not even the same car.

“F” is a universal short notation for First Class.

If they have F seats, it’s only because they’re arbitrarily skipping letters. 100/200/700/900/1000.... they all have the exact same 2.5m cabin. You’re not sitting six people across in 2.5m.

Still going to have sonic booms as you glide back in for a landing, and they’ll be a hell of a lot more powerful than anything the Concorde produced. That pretty much limits you to destinations on the coast.

They’re not planning to escape Earth’s gravity, or even to reach equilibrium (stable orbit). They want to arc to a destination, not execute a retrograde maneuver.

Assuming the booster scales at 75% of last years number of 67oo tons propellant to 5025 tons, and using this years number of 1100 ton for the Shuttlecraft, that’s a total of 6125 tons, for a cost of about a $1.03m of fuel per launch.

as spacious as the F seat on a CRJ900

What if your engine does have a starter engine?

Looks pretty bent in to me.

You make your window out of acrylic.

but still, you would think our military equipment could handle that

Sometimes they swing both ways?

That would make cooling a lot more complex.

I think it cools by convecting.

Not all electric trains are EMUs. There are plenty of traditional electric locomotives, and there are several on the list in the 100t+ range, compared to only 50t for this dump truck. Many of those even haul freight.

If the diesel or gas generator is sitting in a power plant, and connected to the locomotive through fixed power lines, then yeah, I and everyone else would call that an electric vehicle.

Only if they have an onboard diesel engine driving a generator. If they have a diesel engine, it’s a diesel-powered train, even if the power happens to flow through an electric transmission. If it gets it power from the rails, or a pantograph, is electric. If it does both, it’s a hybrid.

Trains.

If a locomotive powers its wheels exclusively with electric motors, is that an electric vehicle?