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lehpron

RE: Need Algebra Help Calculating Area-rule For Wing

Yes, I'm pulling this thread back from the dead just to update; it does shows up 2nd in a google search for the subject of "calculating area rule", so this is for anyone wanting to answer the question as I've long since answered it. <img border=0 src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/gr...

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RE: 2009 US News College Rankings Are Out

Exactly how much of the ranking is influenced by schools simply paying their way to the top, indirectly? I'm not accusing the site for accepting favors, I mean for what schools do and or are capable of doing. Some schools are capable of impacting their community and influencing their stature while o...

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RE: Pencil Whipped

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RE: Supersonic Compressor Blades Vs Ram Compression

What velocity was it capable of at seal level? I imagine slower and therefore compression is a factor of Mach number, though either I've never heard of "Tumansky R-15" or probably know it by another name. Gimme a sec to google "Tumansky R-15"... From a standpoint of complexity, ram compression relie...

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RE: Boeing Experimenting With Hydrogen Powered Plane

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RE: Whatever Happened To These A.netters...

Not that anyone asked, but I haven't been on much as my reason for being here has dimmed. See I started out as a student in engineering that wanted to learn how to make airplanes and everything to do with airlines. I've done all I could on paper but until I can afford my own workstation to do simula...

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lehpron

RE: Things That Irritate You In The Aviation World

Almost nothing about the aviation world, the business or the optational aspects really gets under my skin. However, it's the underlying assumptions made and the atitudes of the establishment that I have bones to pick. Particularly what I regard as a blatant refusal to support imagination at the cost...

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RE: A Good Hobby For Your Girlfriend?

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lehpron

RE: NVidia 8700 Help

8700M's are generally found on laptops; for that, the contrast (like brightness) is a function of the screen and not the descrete graphics.

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lehpron

RE: Why Do Some People Communicate In All Caps?

Actually, you missed the correct spelling.

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RE: Why Do Some People Communicate In All Caps?

It does bug me (like it is very hard to read whole paragraphs in all-caps, assuming paragraphs were used) but I don't make a big deal about it. In my experiences, it's the noobs that come in, particularly those who've never been on the internet before, and the only way they think they can get your a...

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lehpron

When May Hydrogen Be Cheaper Than Oil?

I realize that both may continue to rise but figuring they will cross at some point, so relatively when may the price of hydrogen become cheaper than a similar priced barrel of oil?

15-20 years, sooner or later?

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lehpron

I Have An Issue And I Don't Know How To Explain It

By the time I intend to replace my computer, it will be 3yrs old. It is apparent that I react sourly when I hear/read some people willing to replace every 18 months or less. I realize the number of people who do this are quite small. But I feel they are wasting their investment as their hardware wil...

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RE: Game Based On 9/11 Attacks

Why are you guys so obcessed with Blackbird? In any post or thread she starts, if you don't like/understand what she has to say, prove it by <u>not reacting to it</u>, as if her replies wasn't there. I'm not reacting to what she posts in here, in fact I don't have an opinion on the matter either way...

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lehpron

RE: Dreamliner Security Issue

Couldn't/wouldn't there be a moderating on the network watching which passenger spends the most time not using the same programs as everyone else as possible points of a breach? Its not like these networks are unsupervised, I'd suppose it takes quite a bit of time for even an experience hacker to do...

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lehpron

RE: BWB Wing Optimization Question

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RE: 15" LCD Computer Monitor/HDTV Question?

The effect of HighDef tv is just a picture at a higher resolution which results in a clearer picture only if you can see it, 1080p is 1900*1080 and 720p is 1366*768 for the most part. SD<acronym title="Virgin Express (Belgium)">TV</acronym> (standard definition) is regular <acronym title="Virgin Exp...

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RE: Smallest Flying Machine

Viruses can't fl -- wait you mean like airborne bacteria? C'mon, they aren't flying (just falling with style <img src="/discussions/graphics/smilies/wink.gif" alt="Wink"> ) -- and it just isn't voluntary. With a strong enough wind, we could all fly whether we want to or not, but that doesn't m...

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RE: BWB Wing Optimization Question

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RE: SR-71- The World's Fastest Jet Fighter...

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RE: Anyone Else Like Ice Cubes?

I've never heard of them either, are they like mini Klondikes?

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RE: Attn: Computer Geeks Please Help Me With My Build

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RE: Is Radical Islam Stopable?

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RE: Supersonic Flow, Kinetic-Heating And Sturdiness

Well heat is measured in either joules per second or BTU's per hour, so yeah more time spent in a high heat environment (like the compressed air in a mach cone) means the vehicle/object will get hotter. But to a point; you cannot boil a gallon of water with a 10W heat source, the water will absorb t...

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lehpron

RE: Is Radical Islam Stopable?

Well, how do radicals come about? I think every group has people that take this too far, that think they have take matters into their own hands. You have learn this sh:t, to kill to convey messages through violence, etc. Which means it can be unlearned, unfortunately this implies a long-term solutio...

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RE: Stop Acting Like It's Your Money!

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lehpron

Stop Acting Like It's Your Money!

I'm not entire bugged, just the impression I get from people's reaction to "the richer types" that spend quite a bit is nothing but judgemental criticism, as if they lent them the money and it was misused. So what if someone gets a giant mansion that will be overkill for the rest of us? We're not li...

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lehpron

If Nuclear Weapons Weren't Radioactive?

I'm seriously asking this: Is the issue against (the spread of) nuclear weapons technology purely an argument against radioactive fallout? What if that wasn't an issue (a thermo-nuclear type of weapon with little to no radioactive fallout)? I'm not asking if it was possible with out current technolo...

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lehpron

RE: Computer Tv Tuners And HD/digital Cable?

So I simply have to ask how many channels in their packages are "unencryipted clear QAM"?

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lehpron

Computer Tv Tuners And HD/digital Cable?

I own an Avermedia PCIe M780, combination NTSC/ATSC analog/digital tv tuner: <a href="http://www.aver.com/mpd/combopcie_feature.html" target="_blank">http://www.aver.com/mpd/combopcie_feature.html</a> So far I've been using it with an amplifed antenna for both FTO (free-to-air) analog and HDTV broad...

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lehpron

RE: 10 Year Old Arrested For Cutting Food With Knife

Is it me or is everyone paranoid about kids thesedays? I know the school shootings are a disturbing trend, but to take an alarmist position and think any kid is just as guilty to the point where a kid thinks a knife is a knife and treat it like "reasoning" for causing panic is unfortunate. It's like...

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lehpron

RE: Possible Evolutions Of The A380

I think an engine change my occur in a decade when more fuel efficient (same thrust) engines come around. Or course, if the wings of the A388 were meant for 389, then they could take the engine loading of the 389 such that more powerful engines could make an <acronym title="Lacsa (Costa Rica)">LR</a...

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lehpron

Used A USB Flash As Your Computer's Hard Drive?

Could/have USB 2.0 flash drives be used to boot a computer with an <acronym title="Austrian Airlines">OS</acronym> installed on them? Which RAID would allow two or more in parallel to make the read and write faster? Intended use is just <acronym title="Frederico II Airways (Italy)">2D</acronym> stuf...

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RE: Exhaust/turbulence Effect Supersonic Area Rule?

Well what about the external combustion senario associated either ram/SCramjet engines? That is if it is assumed that the bow shock from inlet can act as a partial-containment for the combustion process and exhaust expansion.

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lehpron

RE: The Need For Speed

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RE: Who Here Had Media Player 10 And Went For 11?

Is there a way to save those metadata as files? I suppose I wouldn't mind loosing them if I had a record. I recently went threw a pain-in-the-ass method of Print Screening my enitre collection with the counts plus the title/artist and file path. I ended up with a 33MB bitmap at 1500 x 11900. I don't...

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RE: It's Harder For Bad Kissers To Get Laid.

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RE: Who Here Had Media Player 10 And Went For 11?

Pardon the link, but I figure if SP3 is being tested now, it'll be a matter of a few months.
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...content&task=view&id=4536&Itemid=1

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lehpron

RE: Who Here Had Media Player 10 And Went For 11?

Cool, so if 11 is included in XP SP3 (Q1 2008) then, well, I won't be as worried.

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lehpron

Who Here Had Media Player 10 And Went For 11?

My reluctancy is if I upgrade will my preferences, playlists and favorites be preserved? Like the "Last time played" or "Play Counts"?

I guess I should also ask how many went back to WMP 10, was 11 worth it for you?

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lehpron

What Do You Call "soft Drinks"

I call them "sodas", my mom calls them "cokes", et vous?

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lehpron

RE: Strangest Boeing Design Ever

It's doubtful a Boeing engineer will draw up a plane and not do the analysis. In my experience, new/different ideas get more knocked off due to being different (the excuse of cost, implimentation and risk assement also follows when asked why).

I know because I've recieve a lot of that.

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lehpron

RE: This Is Why I Don't Like Birds...

I know beforehand, birds aren't aware we don't like it when they shizzle on are rides, so I simply do not park anywhere near trees.

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RE: Does Hot Water Rise Like Air?

Thanks everyone for the replies, I suppose I knew it but then I been having these weird experiences with heating things up in our microwave (stuff gets hot in one corner while the rest of cold), it must have threw me off. But then when I boil water for pasta, initially before it starts to boil, the ...

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lehpron

RE: Interracial And Inter-religious Marriages?

It's nice to see the percentage has rise to 7% (I didn't know that), I'm more interested in the inter-religious than inter-racial (probably should have stated that beforehand). Some black and whites are Christian anyway, some whites and hispanics are catholic already, some asians convert before marr...

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RE: This Is The Reason We Need The Death Penalty

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Does Hot Water Rise Like Air?

If I had a column of water with a heat source at the base, will the warmer water rise and allow the lesser warmer water recirculate without a pump, or will the water near the heat source simply get hot?

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lehpron

Interracial And Inter-religious Marriages?

How often does either occur compared to most marriages? How long do they last?

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RE: Worst Movie Endings Ever!

Eragon Most movies I've seen with an intended sequel (whether o rnot it occurs) have an appropriate ending, something to conclude that chapter, but not Eragon. It was the first movie I've ever watched where I felt I really should not have watched it. I think I only tolerated it so I could see actres...

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RE: How To Restrain A 747 @ Full Takeoff Thrust?

Is setting the brakes really that strong? I've accidently drove around forgetting I set my parking brake on. A 744 has 1/4th its weight in thrust, to hold the plane in place the brakes need to be that strong, preventing wheel rotation with 30k ft lbs behind each wheel. Heck if brakes were that stong...

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