Not just a thing: the subsonic.22LR makes up a majority of all firearms cartridges manufactured. If you hear two cracks from one of those, one is an echo.
You're on the right track. The ability to get airborne is one constraint; you also have to maintain a certain minimum rate of climb if you lose an engine.
Tire speed is another constraint. The higher the density altitude, the faster the airplane has to go to develop lift. If that speed is above the maximum safe rotational speed of the tires, it doesn't matter how long the runway is.
Offloading passengers on hot days is normal practice. Some people get pissed off, and you have to compensate them, but at least you make something on the flight. Cancel it altogether and you make nothing.
Stonewall Jackson held one arm aloft as much as he could, even riding into battle -- supposedly to equalize blood flow. He didn't quit even after he caught a bullet that way.
The cell-band lockout was generally easy to defeat. I had a Radio Shack scanner in which it was controlled by a jumper on the PCB -- and the jumper conveniently had a little slack in it, raising it a quarter inch above the PCB for easy snipping.
The function of an airplane is to carry a load. On that basis, the Antonov An-225 beats the Goose by a factor of 5, and it beats the Stratolaunch by 1.5.
Furthermore, the Goose never demonstrated true airplane flight. It never reached an altitude of more than 1/5 of a wingspan, which means it was flying mostly on ground effect -- and as a ground-effect machine, the Soviet "Caspian Sea Monster" beat its load numbers by a factor of more than 4.
Once there was a magazine (whose name escapes me, senior moment) that offered games you could type in BASIC for the Apple, Atari and TRS-80. Soon as the first issue came out, the publisher had a visit from Tandy's lawyer, threatening a lawsuit if they continued mentioning Radio Shack products without paying royalties. They coped with it by labeling the games "Z-80", the name of the TRS-80's chip. Tandy got their wish: nobody ever mentions Radio Shack computers today.
Incidentally, the magazine went down anyway a year or so later; the publisher got so obsessed with playing D&D that he failed to run the business.
opening "The Incredible Universe" with a fair amount of fanfare
...and expecting me to fill out a membership application to get in the door. Nope. Few months later they announced you could browse without a membership if you weren't buying anything, and I visited. Guess what: It was a Radio Shack with dishwashers.
Then they opened Tech America
...and for a few months I actually had a serviceable electronics store. Naturally, they shut it down.
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Boar does not mean wild pig. It means male pig with his balls intact. (/syntaxrant)
...and US carriers are so short they need a catapult.
Not just a thing: the subsonic .22LR makes up a majority of all firearms cartridges manufactured. If you hear two cracks from one of those, one is an echo.
...Now figure out why we put a man on the Moon before we put wheels on luggage.
You're on the right track. The ability to get airborne is one constraint; you also have to maintain a certain minimum rate of climb if you lose an engine.
Tire speed is another constraint. The higher the density altitude, the faster the airplane has to go to develop lift. If that speed is above the maximum safe rotational speed of the tires, it doesn't matter how long the runway is.
Offloading passengers on hot days is normal practice. Some people get pissed off, and you have to compensate them, but at least you make something on the flight. Cancel it altogether and you make nothing.
Not "sunbathing", exactly: he seems to have done it indoors, sitting in front of an open window to get fresh air.
Going nekkid at home probably wasn't all that unusual, given that clothing was a significant expense...and Victorianism was still in the future.
Stonewall Jackson held one arm aloft as much as he could, even riding into battle -- supposedly to equalize blood flow. He didn't quit even after he caught a bullet that way.
Were you granted a high-school diploma?
Here I'd just about managed to get that out of my mind, and you had to bring it back...;-(
The cell-band lockout was generally easy to defeat. I had a Radio Shack scanner in which it was controlled by a jumper on the PCB -- and the jumper conveniently had a little slack in it, raising it a quarter inch above the PCB for easy snipping.
Another thing that prompted the switch were instances of high up government officials having their phone calls listened to by people with scanners.
One in particular. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb...
And nobody can.
fucking theater
I went to one of those once, in Hamburg.
Last time they started innovating, we got the Zero fighter and the Long Lance torpedo.
Who's telling people to quit their day jobs?
Amway, when you're floundering and they want to lock you in.
Matter of fact, /. would have been much better off to copy the corresponding story in Soylent...
I was acquainted with three brothers named James, Jim and Jimmy. Yes, this was in Georgia.
Recidivism rate, after discharge.
Yeah, let's put 'em back in unnature where they came from.
The function of an airplane is to carry a load. On that basis, the Antonov An-225 beats the Goose by a factor of 5, and it beats the Stratolaunch by 1.5.
Furthermore, the Goose never demonstrated true airplane flight. It never reached an altitude of more than 1/5 of a wingspan, which means it was flying mostly on ground effect -- and as a ground-effect machine, the Soviet "Caspian Sea Monster" beat its load numbers by a factor of more than 4.
...for puking on a customer?
And who wants to be stuck up there for five days?
Burt Rutan and Jeana Yeager, for two. https://airandspace.si.edu/col...
Once there was a magazine (whose name escapes me, senior moment) that offered games you could type in BASIC for the Apple, Atari and TRS-80. Soon as the first issue came out, the publisher had a visit from Tandy's lawyer, threatening a lawsuit if they continued mentioning Radio Shack products without paying royalties. They coped with it by labeling the games "Z-80", the name of the TRS-80's chip. Tandy got their wish: nobody ever mentions Radio Shack computers today.
Incidentally, the magazine went down anyway a year or so later; the publisher got so obsessed with playing D&D that he failed to run the business.
opening "The Incredible Universe" with a fair amount of fanfare
...and expecting me to fill out a membership application to get in the door. Nope. Few months later they announced you could browse without a membership if you weren't buying anything, and I visited. Guess what: It was a Radio Shack with dishwashers.
Then they opened Tech America
...and for a few months I actually had a serviceable electronics store. Naturally, they shut it down.