I haven’t seen the documentary (don’t have Netflix) but I do work in the coastal town of Scarborough where Saville was buried and where he spent much time in the past. I am told in the 70s and 80s it was common for him to come on a ‘night out’ and it was well publicised. Some stayed away from him bu...
Jump to postI don’t see why they need to change the arrangements on amended type certificates. The system, as far as I can tell was pretty good and was basically “having an aircraft in demonstrably safe operation is as good as having an aircraft designed to the latest standards”, an official safety standard of ...
Jump to postIf anyone cares, a simple formula to calculate max gliding range is Range=(L/D)*height. L/D max is the same as CL/CD and this occurs when the zero lift drag coefficient is equal to the induced drag coefficient. The speed for this flat glad varies with the square root of (1/density) so as you descen...
Jump to postIf anyone cares, a simple formula to calculate max gliding range is Range=(L/D)*height. L/D max is the same as CL/CD and this occurs when the zero lift drag coefficient is equal to the induced drag coefficient. The speed for this flat glad varies with the square root of (1/density) so as you descen...
Jump to postI have some questions. How many people ave done this a second time? Can you be banned before an incident? Is this like minority report? Do we believe the passengers at fault are thinking rationally when they behave in these ways? What’s more important, retribution for problem causing behaviour or pr...
Jump to post@ flipdewaf Things you're ignoring: ⋅ The ~75% higher moment of inertia in the 24.5ft D fuse. Moment of inertia is of little to no relevance in pressure dominated regime. ⋅ The prominence of bending reinforcement in the 779's fuse, which is 20% longer, made of heavier stuff, and...
Jump to postDo you have a cite for 77W figure? Not disagreeing, my 20% seems to be an underestimate from the last time I thought about this stuff much a few years ago. https://courses.washington.edu/ie337/Boeing%20Tour%20Facts.pdf ACC131 is the wing-body join station, They lift the wing structure. Even at 122k...
Jump to postAll wings provide their own bending relief. Magnitude and the relative values of wing (+engine) vs. fuselage (+contents) matter. Here we're increasing wing weight by ~40% (first cut) while fuselage+contents weight increases by only ~20%. What's more, the quad layout provides ~50% more engine bendin...
Jump to postI see ferpes models and they don't seem right. If you take those L/D numbers and apply then to breguet they all come out with higher ranges than the aircraft in question. The discrepancy may trace to whether you're using OEM/airline rules for reserves and diversions to safety airports. I also find ...
Jump to postMatt, Not sure if you were looking to match the A380 cabin area but I calculated the usable width top and bottom and then assumed a nose taper of ~1.5 and a tail taper of 2. Then I assumed that the top deck could only be of use in the constant section and the lower deck would make use of about 1/2 t...
Jump to postbennett123 wrote:God save the Queen is the best?.
[quote="Matt6461"][/quote] I see ferpes models and they don't seem right. If you take those L/D numbers and apply then to breguet they all come out with higher ranges than the aircraft in question. In terms of the models it doesn't directly apply bending stress, the method (Stanford univer...
Jump to postChecking in on the A380 postmortems... Folks have made the most important points: ⋅ 1. A388 wing/empennage/engines/MLG were sized for growth with disastrous results ⋅ 2. A380 fuselage is not very efficient for a double-decker (though still more efficient than any single decker) ...
Jump to postNewark727 wrote:Next year can we have this race somewhere else? Like, not in Saudi Arabia?
Sports, including F1 racing, are being ruined by a toxic mix of money, questionable rules and enforcement, corruption and politics. For almost a century, F1 and its predecessors events have been held in countries with violent dictators, serious human right issues, tax dodging political entities, ci...
Jump to postRepublican Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis makes an official Governor's Declaration that Florida resident Emma Weyant won the swimming event and is the NCAA Champion, not Lia Thomas https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaabk/desantis-declares-florida-native-emma-weyant-ncaa-champ-in-500-free-over-li...
Jump to postRob was talking about pap smears which is a test for cervical cancer. Every person is built different. Some people are lean and large, some people are lean and small. Some people build themselves for swimming, some people build themselves for hockey. Look at the build and speed of Bonnie Blair, Oly...
Jump to postAre you absolutely sure about that? https://blog.apicha.org/what-to-know-about-hpv-cervical-cancer-being-trans#:~:text=As%20mentioned%20above%2C%20if%20you,at%20risk%20for%20cervical%20cancer. Depending on how invasive the bottom surgery is, they could still need these checks. Oh, and breast cancer...
Jump to postSeparate but equal does not work. See: America until the 1970s. Yes, trans people do want equality. Just like Blacks still want equality, gays still want equality, Muslims still want equality, etc. Maybe have a gender-neutral competition? Remove all barriers? Agreed, gender-neutral, not sex-neutral...
Jump to postWhen a person is on hormone replacement, they are taking doses of a hormone. It is used, also, for menopausal women. Again: the "problem" that needs to be fixed is education. To teach people that there are people out there who are not the biology they were born with. Several peer-reviewed...
Jump to postI don’t think anyone is suggesting someone can’t live their life how they choose is missing the point. I can’t life my life as a billionaire because I am not one, if you your sex is male you shouldn’t be able to compete as female sex, because you aren’t. Fred Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk The un...
Jump to postWhy should we be forced to use communal changing rooms with cubicleS? Forced? If someone is forcing you to get undressed in a particular place then I’m afraid you have more problems than a simple gender vs sex debate. If you mean “ the place where you ‘CHOOSE’ to get changed is less to your liking ...
Jump to posthttps://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-un-mission-tweet-russia-letter-1.6389649 I never thought that diplomats would be throwing around petty insults on Twitter like teens, but yet here we are. The latest Twitter spat is between Canadian and Russian diplomats. Ha! I thought it was pretty funny, sh...
Jump to postUntil recently they were synonymous and on most forms it still says Sex M/F. Historic genuine ignorance is not a valid excuse for future wilful ignorance. Do you actually think Lia checks the M box? (And you schooling her on the difference between sex and gender would likely go as well as me explai...
Jump to postI find it interesting you call Lia she, yet you don't want her competing in women's sports. The pronouns use is to do with gender the athletic ability is due to sex. It’s pretty basic. I wasn’t going to get in to “the left does this and the right does that” stuff but I now feel compelled for some r...
Jump to postHasn't this war shown us that tanks are no longer that useful in the battlefield? Who'd want to be a tank crew after seeing the effectiveness of the Javelins against the Russian tanks? Humans are as susceptible to bullets as tanks are to Javelins but we still send humans in…. Fred Sent from my iPho...
Jump to postI find it interesting you call Lia she, yet you don't want her competing in women's sports. The pronouns use is to do with gender the athletic ability is due to sex. It’s pretty basic. I wasn’t going to get in to “the left does this and the right does that” stuff but I now feel compelled for some r...
Jump to postThis deserves its own thread and has understandably been overshadowed by COVID and now the Ukrainian crisis in the last year. Unfortunately feckless and wishy-washy leadership by NCAA and other athletic organizations have led to this situation where highly competitive female athletes are being push...
Jump to postEither sex matters in a sport or it doesn’t…if it does the she should be banned as competing as a woman if it does not matter then the differentiation between men and women should be scrapped. There are sports already that do this.
Fred
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Are NATO assets able to help find Russian missile and artillery batteries in real time? E-8s and rivet joints of NATO forces regularly (constant presence) flying along the Ukraine and Belarusian borders. They are no doubt feeding this information to Ukrainian forces and are likely part of the huge ...
Jump to postMortyman wrote:NIKV69 wrote:Paid the most I ever have for a gallon today. $4.99 hows that hopey changey stuff working for ya?
You have nothing to complain about. Compared to prices in Norway / Europe, that is cheap.
N14AZ wrote:
May Putin suffer from ingrown toenails for the rest of his life…
In no particular order...
First solo in PA38 traumahawk
MAN-DOH-MEL first time in business class
MAN-PHL first time on a plane with my daughter (then 2) she was so excited and I didn't even care that she wanted the window seat!
Fred
Filled up the pickup truck yesterday for £1.83.9 per litre. It was more expensive than I was used to but we were as a family on a trip out, not being shit at, no planes trying to Bomb us, there were no tanks, I wasn’t forced to leave my wife and daughter to fight. Whilst filling up the car I was fre...
Jump to posthttps://mobile.twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1503066383969619973 According to this twitter thread that explains what pushed Putin to go into Ukraine, the author claims that concessions won't work. Well if Putin has no exit ramp that he's willing to take, then how the hell does this all end ? With ...
Jump to postReports on Sky News that there may have been some progress in the peace talks . I wonder if Putin realises along with his bully boys that they need to get out of this before its too late ! My take is that Russia would have to withdraw. Where I'm conflicted is in regards to Donbass and Crimea. While...
Jump to postOh my goodness. I just had nightmares about a Professor who studied at Caltech giving us mixed units problems in my Aero Engineering ugrad. Seriously, slugs as a unit of mass? Pound mass vs pound force. SI was just simply more elegant. Unfortunately, having grown up in the US I do think in the so c...
Jump to posthttps://mobile.twitter.com/Global_Mil_Info/status/1502667894764752899 We all knew this was going to happen. So this spells the end of military aid ? Nope, it means step them up because they are working. I’m sure if it were possible to see any emotions through the little puffy ill face of putin we’d...
Jump to postRussia couldn’t complain about treatment anyway, I’m not sure there are any rules for POSMA (Prisoners of special military action).
Fred
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I suspect CMA CGM’s 777F order is purely because of availability. They are being delivered this spring, after being ordered last fall. I don’t think they have any intention of being a long term 777 operator, and if there was an equivalent Airbus available now they would have ordered that instead. L...
Jump to postRussia would never allow entry into NATO or the E.U. That is the red line that triggered this whole damn mess. I disagree, it wasn’t the reason, it was the excuse. When your next door neighbor is an authoritarian regime that is so heavily armed that no nation will stick their neck out and risk star...
Jump to postThe "buffer zone" is an idea that is fundamentally inseparable from Russian imperialism. Russia is no more entitled to one than France or Britain were to vast chunks of Africa. If Russia needs land between itself and its presumed enemies, why can't other nations demand the same? Shouldn't...
Jump to postIs it up to Cuba to host Russian nuclear weapons? Up to Venezuela? Cuba and Venezuela can choose to do this if they so wish, as indeed Cuba did. Is it up to India to stay of this mess and do business with whoever they want? India, are free to choose whichever course of action they choose. It’s like...
Jump to postBuffer zone was needed for their protection and slow down potential enemy. There is no natural obstacle in the northern European plain. So putin should have been able to maintain an “operation human shield” against their will so he wouldn’t have a tantrum? Well as it is right now he invaded that “h...
Jump to postAbhorrent behavior in 1991-2002? Like what? The cluster bombing of Chechen civilians? Why would you limit it to the 1991-2002 period anyway? You think putin isn’t driven by anything from the Cold War? Hilarious! IMHO Finland was totally acceptable scenario for Russia. WTF! You know who gets to deci...
Jump to postBuffer zone was needed for their protection and slow down potential enemy. There is no natural obstacle in the northern European plain. So putin should have been able to maintain an “operation human shield” against their will so he wouldn’t have a tantrum? Well as it is right now he invaded that “h...
Jump to postThey lost the buffer zone. Look at the map. There are no natural obstacles between NATO borders all the way to Ural. Why does Russia need a "buffer zone"? Their old buffer zone was smaller, poorer countries who they subjugated and oppressed, who finally got their independence. NATO has no...
Jump to postThey lost the buffer zone. Look at the map. There are no natural obstacles between NATO borders all the way to Ural. So what!? If your previous acquaintances decide they’d like to be friends with someone else and not you then it’s on YOU to change your behaviour NOT on others to appease you lest yo...
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