Aircraft aluminum has a further problem. If it is bent (not even to it's deforming point) repeatedly it will work-harden and become very brittle. After a very low number of repetitions it can become harder to bend but then snap with less force than it took to originally bend it.
- RAJ, A&P
Boeing has known for thirty+ years now that an enormous, overbearing, fuel-guzzling, four engine aircraft that requires specifically long runways is not the best aircraft for the industry. It's just Airbus' time to do and learn the same.
PS3 (HDMI, Wireless, BluRay, 60 gig)
$600
360 E1337 (For HDMI) $479
Wireless adaptwhore. $100
MinorlyImprovedDVD player. $199
120gig Hardon drive. $179
$957
But at least you get twice the harddrive space!
Word of mouth overrides logic once again.
I understand that I wouldn't be buying a laptop form factor for gaming anyway, but I think I'll further enjoy my IBM chipsets for the software that is written for them.
I wasn't necessarily bashing macs in general. The headline centered around 'Hoshi- BRUSHED ALUMINUM' was simply superfluous.
And brushed aluminum won't play Crysis.
Except that theres always the question of reliability. Magnetos work without external power, and then an aircraft will even have two of them with completely seperate ignition systems. You will never, refute all you like, see an electronic ignition system as reliable as a piston aircraft's. Moreso you will never see the same performance out of any fuel but leaded avgas, specifically that the lead coats and lubricates many of the internal components in the reciprocating cycle, and that TEL additive is not affected by temperature or altitude. Automotive gasolines in general aviation are utterly laughed at and incredibly discouraged, any pilot that thinks he's saving money is just spending it rebuilding his engine a couple hundred hours of flight later. Finally, an electronic ignition system is no help for detonation of other fuels at altitude and in high performance engines. Spark is spark, and magnetos are already timed for best, safest power. Would you even want to take the risk of a lesser grade fuel starting to detonate, electronic ignition or not, when you're 8,000-10,000 feet above the ground? AvGas and Magnetos are proven over the last century, and will not be easily replaced to sate the environmental hacks who couldn't be bothered to totalize the amount of lead (miniscule) actually entering the atmosphere in compairson to any heavy industry.
The basic programming language of the Texas Instruments Ti-85 Graphing Calculator was rather limited and had to compile at every edit of the program, and generally didn't produce more than text icons fighting other text icons. It was noted that the 'custom menu' which was a bottom-bar on the screen with unmapped buttons below it, pointed to places in memory rather than just copying the item to/from the buffer. Using a memory backup to inject a shell program into this menu (Such as ZShell), this was exploited to execute assembly code programs on the calculator to produce grayscale graphics and fast processing for many applications.
This assembly code access was incorporated into later model calculators, but the dynamic buttons of the Ti-85 make it a long prized item for many of us geeks that know what came of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-85
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Aircraft aluminum has a further problem. If it is bent (not even to it's deforming point) repeatedly it will work-harden and become very brittle. After a very low number of repetitions it can become harder to bend but then snap with less force than it took to originally bend it. - RAJ, A&P
Boeing has known for thirty+ years now that an enormous, overbearing, fuel-guzzling, four engine aircraft that requires specifically long runways is not the best aircraft for the industry. It's just Airbus' time to do and learn the same.
My question is if it outperforms Wingsuits already in use. The glide ratio can't be much better with the added weight.
PS3 (HDMI, Wireless, BluRay, 60 gig) $600 360 E1337 (For HDMI) $479 Wireless adaptwhore. $100 MinorlyImprovedDVD player. $199 120gig Hardon drive. $179 $957 But at least you get twice the harddrive space! Word of mouth overrides logic once again.
I understand that I wouldn't be buying a laptop form factor for gaming anyway, but I think I'll further enjoy my IBM chipsets for the software that is written for them. I wasn't necessarily bashing macs in general. The headline centered around 'Hoshi- BRUSHED ALUMINUM' was simply superfluous. And brushed aluminum won't play Crysis.
Hoshi- Brushed Aluminum man? That totally makes up for the fact its a mac!
Except that theres always the question of reliability. Magnetos work without external power, and then an aircraft will even have two of them with completely seperate ignition systems. You will never, refute all you like, see an electronic ignition system as reliable as a piston aircraft's. Moreso you will never see the same performance out of any fuel but leaded avgas, specifically that the lead coats and lubricates many of the internal components in the reciprocating cycle, and that TEL additive is not affected by temperature or altitude. Automotive gasolines in general aviation are utterly laughed at and incredibly discouraged, any pilot that thinks he's saving money is just spending it rebuilding his engine a couple hundred hours of flight later. Finally, an electronic ignition system is no help for detonation of other fuels at altitude and in high performance engines. Spark is spark, and magnetos are already timed for best, safest power. Would you even want to take the risk of a lesser grade fuel starting to detonate, electronic ignition or not, when you're 8,000-10,000 feet above the ground? AvGas and Magnetos are proven over the last century, and will not be easily replaced to sate the environmental hacks who couldn't be bothered to totalize the amount of lead (miniscule) actually entering the atmosphere in compairson to any heavy industry.
The basic programming language of the Texas Instruments Ti-85 Graphing Calculator was rather limited and had to compile at every edit of the program, and generally didn't produce more than text icons fighting other text icons. It was noted that the 'custom menu' which was a bottom-bar on the screen with unmapped buttons below it, pointed to places in memory rather than just copying the item to/from the buffer. Using a memory backup to inject a shell program into this menu (Such as ZShell), this was exploited to execute assembly code programs on the calculator to produce grayscale graphics and fast processing for many applications. This assembly code access was incorporated into later model calculators, but the dynamic buttons of the Ti-85 make it a long prized item for many of us geeks that know what came of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-85