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I don't know how this slipped by me. Sorry, Hyo, this is dead wrong. If it were true all commercial flight would be at altitudes just barely high...
It's not even that. It's an X-Plane creation, a virtual entity that exists only on computer screens. The version depicted was never built; what...
All enclosed gliders/sailplanes are towed to a few thousand feet AGL by powered aircraft as the most practical means of getting more than a few...
It's news to me that sailplanes and gliders are not synonomous. A popular tpe of hybrid craft that puts an engine on a high performance sailplane...
WIG is a concept that's been explored for more than half a century, with, as shown in this thread, some serious development money devoted to it....
Contender for title of World's Ugliest Airplane was the Bartini-Beriev VVA-14, a monstrosity that was built only once, and left to rot. Looks more...
Here're fixed wing airplanes proving you don't need the mechanical nightmare of a helo to operate from a field the size of a postage stamp. The...
Just fooling around with random statistics, trying to get a mental grasp of a trillion, reveals this tidbit: If you had 1,000,000,000,000 one...
Now there's a picture every lad in rut should keep in his wallet next to the Trojans. Y'know, to whip out when the Jane of the moment he's been...
Let's say you had a stash of crisp, new 100 dollar bills, unwrinkled, so if stacked on the table they'd make a compact brick. Turn the brick on...
The resolution is really not that good. There's an insect on one of the shrubs in your front yard but it's impossible to tell what species it is....
We're looking at this problem entirely the wrong way. Just put together a team with Bruce Willis & friends to use some of the world's unused...
Plastic models are so 1960. Paper - now that's a modeling medium with panache. See my post of January 2009:...
The entire video tour was of restaurants, bars, the casino, the theater & what looked like a jewelry store - nothing that I couldn't enjoy...
Well, first you have to consider whether her sleeping with his best friend in THEIR bed the night before was deserving of some sort of response ... :p
Imagine if there were a vacation ship where EVERY crew station, including Captain, were filled by paying customers! Serving as Captain would be...
The Captain is now claiming the rocks he hit weren't on the chart. Well, he's correct, now - the rock he hit isn't on the chart anymore, it's...
Thanks for the explanation. With all the Titanic comparisons being invoked, come to think of it the matter of a ship's fundamental fragility is...
I must concede that without the Cobra we wouldn't have had this most priceless of smilers: Bill Cosby 200MPH - YouTube
A question for Tom (qbee42) - in Aug 2000 a 500 ft. Russian sub (Kursk) sank in 350 feet of water; all hands were lost. At the time I wondered why...
