For now. Still, getting back 27 engines for the loss of one is still a good tradeoff. It means wasting some fuel and limiting the maximum payload, tho.
I hope they meant "disengage autotrim". MCAS is not active if the autopilot is engaged, so engaging autopilot would probably bring the plane under control. However, if the plane is already upset it is probably impossible to engage the autopilot at all.
Ctrl+shift+esc, opens the task manager without having to use ctrl+alt+del or launching it explicitly from the run menu or command prompt. No idea why it doesn't seem to be documented.
Makes me wonder why they don't try to snatch it with a grapple equipped helicopter, like they did with film canisters from spy satellites many years ago. I understand that it's a pretty large and heavy part (800Kg, I believe), but there should be helicopters that can manage that sort of maneuver, and then drop the load on a much smaller net before landing on their own barge.
I live in Rome. It may be an opportunity.... but we have literally hundreds of thousands of similar opportunities all over the place. and while I agree that these are precious artefacts that ought to be studied and made available to the public to be seen, the truth is that there's no funding for that, and so they mostly get buried back to preserve them. This while the infrastructure works are delayed for decades, to nobody's advantage. I mean, it's Rome. There's bound to be Roman artefacts, since Romans have lived here for the past few thousands of years.
But the failure of a mistimed valve is way more catastrophic than that of a misfiring injector or spark plug. Even if an electrically actuated valve system was to be used in production I'd expect it either to be supported by a backup mechanical system or to be designed never to interfere with the volume occupied by a piston. In the first case the electronic valve would be an additional cost only justified on high performance engines, in the second case it would affect the performance negatively. Perhaps this could work with sleeve valve engines?
Something that can barely puncture through the skin of a missile takes a whole 747 to carry. I think something more reliable would be a detection system that pinpoints the origin coordinates and automatically signals the laser's origin to someone on the ground. With current GPS and mapping systems should be possible to get sub meter accuracy. A quick response drone could also be dispatched to take pictures to document the nature of the offender, for when he's then brought to court.
What I wonder is, since it is already landing on a relatively small spot, why can't they set up the ship to catch it and prevent it from toppling over? A system of cables like the one used for catching the Ryan X-13 Vertijet should not be impossible.
A commercial plane will most probably undergo through several maintenance events and checks during that sort of time frame, where cycling the power is part of the procedure.
I was about to suggest exactly the same. You can do any sort of stuff on the Beetle, from fitting a Porsche engine in it, to replacing the entire front half with that of a chopper bike, to cutting the engine in half to use it on a microlight. And it will just run forever.
Time and time again your forecasts about legal disputes have been falsified in court. How can you still offer your allegedly unbiased opinion as an expert on patent law and still keep a straight face? Aren't you perhaps confusing what you (or your sponsors) wish the body of the law is with what it actually is?
I "sort of" agree, and in Italy we do indeed use the comma to separate decimal digits. However, the problem with using a comma when applied to Anglophone nations is mainly one of pronunciation. "Thirty-three-comma-thirthy-three" sounds like two separate numbers, at least until you get used to it. And getting used to it can take a long time since this usage of the comma is logically opposed to that in written language.
Yup, the next step is renaming the Windows brand. And to keep the current theme of something that is fragile, and allows easy access to people with bad intentions, they could just call it Microsoft Backdoors, I guess.
Because who bought their oscilloscopes is unlikely to have the expertise necessary to replicate this hack. It's not like they are people that work with digital electronics every day. I wonder what combination they use for their briefcase.
But the Martin Mars ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... ) made several flights, and was actually flown until a few years ago as a firefighting plane. And I still think it is bigger than this plane. Probably their claim is that it is bigger than its Japanese counterpart, the ShinMaywa US2 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... )
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For now. Still, getting back 27 engines for the loss of one is still a good tradeoff. It means wasting some fuel and limiting the maximum payload, tho.
I hope they meant "disengage autotrim". MCAS is not active if the autopilot is engaged, so engaging autopilot would probably bring the plane under control. However, if the plane is already upset it is probably impossible to engage the autopilot at all.
Ctrl+shift+esc, opens the task manager without having to use ctrl+alt+del or launching it explicitly from the run menu or command prompt. No idea why it doesn't seem to be documented.
Making a script that checks if an URL has been posted recently before is an impossible task, I guess.
I think the fairing also has some manoeuvring nozzles added, mainly for the early re-entry phase control.
Makes me wonder why they don't try to snatch it with a grapple equipped helicopter, like they did with film canisters from spy satellites many years ago. I understand that it's a pretty large and heavy part (800Kg, I believe), but there should be helicopters that can manage that sort of maneuver, and then drop the load on a much smaller net before landing on their own barge.
I live in Rome.
It may be an opportunity.... but we have literally hundreds of thousands of similar opportunities all over the place. and while I agree that these are precious artefacts that ought to be studied and made available to the public to be seen, the truth is that there's no funding for that, and so they mostly get buried back to preserve them. This while the infrastructure works are delayed for decades, to nobody's advantage. I mean, it's Rome. There's bound to be Roman artefacts, since Romans have lived here for the past few thousands of years.
But the failure of a mistimed valve is way more catastrophic than that of a misfiring injector or spark plug. Even if an electrically actuated valve system was to be used in production I'd expect it either to be supported by a backup mechanical system or to be designed never to interfere with the volume occupied by a piston. In the first case the electronic valve would be an additional cost only justified on high performance engines, in the second case it would affect the performance negatively. Perhaps this could work with sleeve valve engines?
Something that can barely puncture through the skin of a missile takes a whole 747 to carry. I think something more reliable would be a detection system that pinpoints the origin coordinates and automatically signals the laser's origin to someone on the ground. With current GPS and mapping systems should be possible to get sub meter accuracy. A quick response drone could also be dispatched to take pictures to document the nature of the offender, for when he's then brought to court.
True, but I think that having a dented tank to replace might come out cheaper than having to fix an entire first stage that has toppled over
What I wonder is, since it is already landing on a relatively small spot, why can't they set up the ship to catch it and prevent it from toppling over? A system of cables like the one used for catching the Ryan X-13 Vertijet should not be impossible.
Maybe email addresses should be obscured too, just a thought...
Why would coach buses need windows? Or trains? Or buildings?
A commercial plane will most probably undergo through several maintenance events and checks during that sort of time frame, where cycling the power is part of the procedure.
Well, it's "mostly" POSIX compliant, you are right.
Instead of making an imitation OS2? The fact that Linux and BSD are POSIX compliant don't make them an imitation Unix.
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I was about to suggest exactly the same. You can do any sort of stuff on the Beetle, from fitting a Porsche engine in it, to replacing the entire front half with that of a chopper bike, to cutting the engine in half to use it on a microlight. And it will just run forever.
Time and time again your forecasts about legal disputes have been falsified in court. How can you still offer your allegedly unbiased opinion as an expert on patent law and still keep a straight face? Aren't you perhaps confusing what you (or your sponsors) wish the body of the law is with what it actually is?
I "sort of" agree, and in Italy we do indeed use the comma to separate decimal digits. However, the problem with using a comma when applied to Anglophone nations is mainly one of pronunciation. "Thirty-three-comma-thirthy-three" sounds like two separate numbers, at least until you get used to it. And getting used to it can take a long time since this usage of the comma is logically opposed to that in written language.
And should be implemented, as long as all other providers of online services are held to the same standards.
Because it's the only way they can get their Bing search engine as a default setting and try and steal some revenue from Google, is my guess.
Yup, the next step is renaming the Windows brand. And to keep the current theme of something that is fragile, and allows easy access to people with bad intentions, they could just call it Microsoft Backdoors, I guess.
Because who bought their oscilloscopes is unlikely to have the expertise necessary to replicate this hack. It's not like they are people that work with digital electronics every day. I wonder what combination they use for their briefcase.
But the Martin Mars ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... ) made several flights, and was actually flown until a few years ago as a firefighting plane. And I still think it is bigger than this plane. Probably their claim is that it is bigger than its Japanese counterpart, the ShinMaywa US2 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... )