[twoid][/twoid] I’m not paying to read but, having lots of experience with wildly inaccurate turbulence forecasts, I’d like to know how they quantified turbulence 45 years ago when we’re talking about 0.1% of the annual exposure to severe turbulence and maybe 0.3% of lesser turbulence, severe is a v...
Jump to postAs an avid United flyer I always refuse to connect through IAH as it is too extreme there. They even play evangalist preachers on Sundays there on the airport TVs. IAH is among the most liberal corners of Texas. Consider yourself lucky if hanging out there. Like saying “count yourself lucky, you’re...
Jump to postI know it won’t happen but wish they would just buy haas. Haas hasn’t done really anything of interest except for a few moments and it isn’t really a feeder team for much a la Williams (to Merc sometimes) and Alfa (to Ferrari). I know Haas just signed a new sponsorship with MoneyGram but whatever. I...
Jump to postProtector of pedophiles and gaslighter of victims, demonizer of LGBT+ individuals, promoter of HIV by restricting condom use, and former Nazi. Why should anyone shed a tear for this guy?
Jump to postThe meeting was scheduled for 17:00 local time (which was 14:00 GMT). So just over four hours ago. I'm surprised we haven't heard anything yet. I'm expecting the review to be granted, but no penalty for Verstappen. We'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out what's happening... https://www.racefa...
Jump to postThe meeting was scheduled for 17:00 local time (which was 14:00 GMT). So just over four hours ago. I'm surprised we haven't heard anything yet. I'm expecting the review to be granted, but no penalty for Verstappen. We'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out what's happening... https://www.racefa...
Jump to postThe new FIA directive on pit stops really is causing havoc. We had what 6-7 slow stops today? Such utter nonsense.
Jump to postMan George cannot catch a break! He has the worst luck in the world.
Shame it didn't last a few more laps, would've been great to see Perez try and pass Bottas. Good showing from RB overall. Solid comeback for Ferrari.
All those comments about "angry" Max are hilarious. He's a sportsman and very is commited to become a F1 World Champion. And he is showing us his dissapointment vividly. But I also understand that it's too much for some snowflakes.... Lewis swears on team radio maybe once a season. Sebast...
Jump to postI'm critical of Russell but I agree that Toto's statement is BS. In fact Russell not attempting the pass would be worse for him, for Williams and for Mercedes. The trick was not to crash, or to abort the pass when it proved difficult. Exactly, Russell took the risk for the overtake and took himself...
Jump to postI mean give the guy a second, he's had two races in the car to Lando's 2 years, and it's not like Lando is just some talentless pay driver; he has skills and is very driven to improve himself (you can hear on the radio whenever he messes up how high a standard he holds himself to, even when his eng...
Jump to postI only got to see the start and the first 20 lops or so, luckily f1 posts race highlights soon after. Questions remain about Riccardo and how good he is. He should be the number one at Mclaren and competing with/outperforming Norris but two races in he is looking like he is where he will be for the...
Jump to postI thought Wolff's statement about George was pretty BS. "The whole situation should have never happened. Valtteri had a bad first 30 laps and should have never been in that position, but George should never have launched into this manoeuvre considering that the track was drying up -- it meant t...
Jump to postYeah the camera angles were not ideal for a lot of the circuit, not helped by the cams often being aimed the wrong way to catch anything either. The only helpful angle of the Bottas Russell crash was the Onboard from Kimi and even that wasn't as clear as I'd like to see, it seemed to my eyes that B...
Jump to postYou're right; the tests used to have lots of tricks in them. But any test of aptitude has tricks and tests of logic. You say SAT is not an accurate single point predictor of aptitude. My reading said it 88% correlated with IQ, at least prior to 2016 redesign, which was partly to make it less "...
Jump to postThe SAT or GRE test Aptitude. As I said, you need that plus character (GPA is a decent proxy for that) to succeed at these top levels. The idea you can get through Caltech without enough aptitude, yeesh. I wouldn’t want to try that. They would need to make it easier. Nobody is suggesting one doesn’...
Jump to postThe Problem with the SAT and ACT is that there are ways to game it by teaching for the test, rather than teaching on broad knowledge and application. The Advanced Math is there to trick folks, and the Advanced Language skills are so focused that they barely have application anywhere else. I could h...
Jump to postWish the stewards would make up their mind on track limits though. 40 laps of going wide at T4 to shave off time isn't an advantage but finishing up a pass is? Enforce it or don't but don't change the enforcement mid-race. One part was definitely confusing - exceeding track limits in practice or qu...
Jump to postFun race. Fitting start for Mazepin. Crofty didn't even have to check if it was Schumacher or Mazepin who spun (granted Mick spun a few laps later). Only 1 weekend in and he's already rightly become persona non-grata (especially after breaking the gentlemen's agreement and then destroying a few peop...
Jump to postAlso, that’s some pretty creepy wing flex at 1:35 in the video (likely an artifact of filming with a cell phone camera and the way in which phones capture an image) You can see that the entire frame seems to distort around those times (i.e. it's not just the wing doing some distortion). My guess is...
Jump to postSure, giving the seat to Hulk makes a lot of sense as he was on the grid last year. It's just that having a test or reserve driver and not give him the seat when you need him is a bit weird to me. Maybe the fact they were so close to the factory helped to make the decision. They were able to quickl...
Jump to postFair enough question, one I am sure he is asking too. I am guessing the RP bosses really want to maximize their chance at a podium now that they suddenly have essentially the number 2 car in the field and leap-frogged several places in one go. Gutierrez's pride comes second to that I suppose. Just m...
Jump to postIt’s been 4 years since Gutierrez drove a GP. Maybe RP wanted a more recently experienced driver, especially if they might be battling for a podium with the likes of Max.
Jump to postLet's not forget that when the ICAO proposed four-letter codes in 1947, the USA objected and said three-letter codes were sufficient... Hmmm.. Interesting. I wonder what made them think that??? I will have to apply my historian skills to research this as I find it interesting. Probably the same thi...
Jump to postEh. Crappy overpriced food, you’re just paying for the view. The space isn’t going away, hopefully they will turn it into something more accessible. In the 11 years I’ve lived in Boston I went exactly once.
Jump to postIf a water-injection system were to be installed on an aircraft high-bypass turbofan, where would the injectors be placed? My guess is probably in the core, just after the low-pressure turbine, or in the bypass duct. Probably not injecting it into the combustion chamber, as cooling the flame would ...
Jump to postGarmin's new emergency autoland system will talk to ATC. I can see it eventually having some remote function. AFAIK it doesn’t really “talk” it just squawks 7700 and broadcasts to inform ATC an emergency is underway and what its intentions are (proceeding direct KXXX for landing runway Y, landing i...
Jump to postGarmin's new emergency autoland system will talk to ATC. I can see it eventually having some remote function. AFAIK it doesn’t really “talk” it just squawks 7700 and broadcasts to inform ATC an emergency is underway and what its intentions are (proceeding direct KXXX for landing runway Y, landing i...
Jump to postIt certainly is. At least in the US, you have all the tinker-toys running to the SCotUS if there is a manger on public property. Even the Pope is considered a plant. Funny how the same people who complain about not being able to put up a manger then clutch their pearls when the Satanic Temple tries...
Jump to postI don't often calc compressed gasses, just building air where the pressure changes are low enough to be ignored. Didn't realize the compression would heat it that much, yet I've installed cooling towers to handle the large 120 psi plant aftercoolers. I would imagine the unit includes a heat pump th...
Jump to postIn figure 2.2 of this report it lists the ECS/ Pressurization at cruise of 320 kW and 32 kW for ECS fans. I haven't found an airflow but I would guess that most of the load is heating the air from -50F to 70F, rather than pressurizing to about 7 psig. I am assuming that is the worst case demand loa...
Jump to postIn figure 2.2 of this report it lists the ECS/ Pressurization at cruise of 320 kW and 32 kW for ECS fans. I haven't found an airflow but I would guess that most of the load is heating the air from -50F to 70F, rather than pressurizing to about 7 psig. I am assuming that is the worst case demand loa...
Jump to post187,000 deposits in 3 days. I told you it would sell. Tesla as I mentioned will only be able to build 200,000 to 300,000 of these worldwide per year. That’s a piece of cake compared to GM, Ford, and Ram, which each sells 1 million to 1.4 million per year, each. $100 refundable deposits aren’t the s...
Jump to postIf you don’t mind small airlines, a lot of the airports Cape Air flies into are 100’. KRUT, KPVC, KMVY etc. not sure that C414s is what you had in mind though.
Jump to postDisagree. There is enough residual thrust from the exhaust, that the performance tables take it into account in the POH. At high speeds it can approach 10% in extreme cases, but is usually less. It is something like 50 kg of thrust on the ATR. Not even enough to get it rolling with brakes released....
Jump to postAwesome! I grew up not 20 minutes from that red mill and have gone through many times. Very neat to see.
Jump to postI won't name the owner, but at least one Gulfstream 650 travels with a backup Gulfstream 550 on most occasions. That seems a little excessive don't ya think? I know AF 1 does this routinely usually with a 757 backing the 747 but that is perhaps understandable should the big boy hae a serious breakd...
Jump to postI have never used monthly lenses which you need to store mostly because I'm not interested in the hassle or storing them even if they are slightly cheaper. Glad you found what works for you, but something to note about daily lenses is that they tend to be a bit more fragile. My boyfriend wears dail...
Jump to postWore glasses for probably 7 years before trying contacts and god I hate going back occasionally. Contacts are way better IMO. Nothing like having ALL of your vision be clear rather than looking through a porthole of clear vision. I wear a set of contacts for probably 2-3 weeks before replacing (they...
Jump to postThat’s exactly what I said. “And its harmonics up to blade passing frequency” You said "also". Only the shaft frequency and its harmonics are created by supersonic blade tip speed and are perceived as buzzsaw noise. And the harmonics of the shaft frequency reach far beyond the BPF. Gruß, ...
Jump to postIt is not "also" at shaft frequency, it is only at shaft frequency and many many of its harmonics. You can also have a pronounced peak at the blade passing frequency, but that one doesn't disappear at cruise level. It might just get less pronounced. Gruß, masi1157 That’s exactly what I sa...
Jump to postYou are both right, the buzzsaw noise is due to shocks with a tip Mach number greater than unity but is also at shaft frequency and it’s harmonics up to blade passing frequency. See my post from a long time ago about this https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=775259&p=11182623#...
Jump to postThe old joke is that we should peg our currencies to the price of the TI-83, it’s been $100 for decades now.
After high school I have never used my graphing calculator in college or now in grad school. Either everything is symbolic or when I am doing numerical anything it’s in Matlab.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if in 50 years some old engineer writes a tell-all about how they raised concerns to management and those concerns were promptly ignored. Management of large engineering projects have long histories of ignoring on the ground engineers for the sake of meeting some goal ...
Jump to postTugg, There are issues though, and metric solves them much better. Newtons vs Pound-force 1 Liter of water weighs 1 KG At what pressure and temperature :) This relationship is not definitionally true anymore, although 1L of water is very close to 1Kg. The kilogram was defined in 1795 as the weight ...
Jump to postThis is not true. All base SI units will be based off of exact values of physical constants in the universe (the kilogram and a few others are switching definition on May 20th 2019). The meter is defined off the distance the speed of light travels in a certain amount of time (and the second itself ...
Jump to postI love this discussion. I see little value in switching to the metric system as conversion is easy (especially nowadays). Also thought metric supporters claim it is "scientific" it really isn't anymore so really than imperial. It is just based on a different set base of measurement. The m...
Jump to postapodino wrote:Can a legal expert weigh in on here for me? How does Cohens testimony not violate attorney client privilege?
Maybe taxi out/delays were shorter than expected and they needed to get down to MTOW? If you need to burn fuel fast, TO power is your best bet and probably not too many places you can throttle up near a runway besides the runway itself.
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