Yes but I believe they still measure fuel in libres. Don't ask me why. Also I think it is spelled "klicks". Still, many information about the aircrafts are given in imperial units. The thrust, weight (loaded&unloaded), lift and speed are in imperial units. Btw, the most common speed unit is knots, not mph or km/h and knots is a naval unit measured by a number of knots on a rope that's trailing the ship in a given time period.
Also to my knowledge the location of the engine was quite unpopular with pilots trying to bail out of a flaming machine.
Early jets' flight characteristics were just a nightmare. No serious acceleration, if you push the throttle too much or too little flame-out occurs. The flight characteristis were a bitch as well, never mention the amount of fuel they could carry.
Converting training aircraft to combat is very easy. A gun pod or unguided missiles are the easiest things to install. Usually training aircraft like BEA Hawks are converted to military use in many third world countries. If you are looking for bombing and strafing some gerrilla hideout, that's all you need. If you are thinking of bombing from high altitute with laser guided bombs, using fire-and-forget air-to-air missiles, (even infrared and radar guided missiles), those systems are expensive but still not impossible to get in the black market.
Countries like Israel make a living out of upgrading old aircraft with the latest avionics. I heard that their F-4 renovation project is brilliant and adds 20 more years to the airframe and weapons systems.
It is very popular in England, I see one flying off Duxford airdfield once in a while. Although it is not supersonic, it is considerable faster than other warbirds located in Duxford (WWI&WWII beasts).
Allegedly such (back to combat configuration) conversions are trivial. Google couldn't find me a web site but I recall reading an article on one of the rec.mil* newsgroups some time ago such a conversion was done to prove it is possible and it took less than 24 hours (provided that you already have everything you need in stock).
A high performance military jet is still a military jet. They can be used for all sorts of purposes, recon being one.
I live very close to Imperial War Museum's Duxford Airfield in Cambridge and occassionaly go there to have a walk. They have a number of jet combat aircraft owned by private organizations/people.
Such a use of H2O2 will be inefficient because you will loose energy while electrolysis. The overall efficinecy will be very low. it would be better to use some catalytic process.
Buran flew and landed safely. Probably it would with astronauts on board. It is an interesting fact that almost all Russian flights are controlled from the base, as much as possible. This is true for Shuttle as well. Computers fly it up, around and down. Buran was just completely computerised. To much of my suprise, Columbia proved that humans on board doesn't make a difference when something goes wrong. It still goes spectacularly wrong when it does.
In my opinion history can be teached safely only when almost all the people who experienced are dead. Before that it becomes political and too hot to handle. According to this yardstick, WWII will be taught in detail in a couple of years time and around 2020, reading about Vietnam and other mid-60s conflicts will be really interesting.
US space industry was civilised much after Sputnik. Between it and Kennedy's speech there's a glorious(!?) military-driven space race. Think of it, all of early astronauts were military, the rockets they were riding on were just modified ICBM.
And it will get worse under GWB. His buddies' vision is a militarised space, under US control.
If the Russians had a shuttle program, they'd have lost at least ten by now.)
It is rather suprising then, they only lost four people in or returning from space, all on Soyuz vehicles and in both cases while trying something that hasn't been done before (re-entry in first Soyuz flight and re-entry from first Salyut tour (read as Russian Space Station for all ignorant)).
Unless you count Nedelin Disaster their safety performance is better than 14 in Shuttle accidents and three in a pre-flight check accident.
I believe thinking in such "us vs. them" or "Goode olde America vs. Communist bastards" is no good for some time.
Since you mentioned Aral sea, shall I mention Exxon Valdes and Alaska?
I just had a look at this page, this guy's a nutter. He's a perfect case. I just can't believe it. Arrrrgh! I'm ashamed of being a human if this guy is also called a human! (No problem, he calls himself some sort of god apparently).
I read the same book and was horrified how the American astronauts treated their russian counterparts. Especially Michael Foyle (current "commander" of ISS) seemed to be quite a guy. I wouldn't like to be in the same tin can for 6 months with him.
It is not about learning about a new database. It is learning about ANSI SQL92. Almost all databases under the sun support the main set of functions of SQL92. Even Access out of Office 97 will do.
Why would I bundle a particular database with my software? If I did that, I would be free as Microsoft allows me to be.
MSDE is a feature installed on almost all XP systems and provides a replacement for Access functionality but I would still prefer to use SQL92 and compliant with almost everything.
Volvo 940... I bought it off ebay for 450 pounds. It has 165k miles on the clock and still purrs like a cat. If I look after it properly, it should last long.
My previous car was a Nissan Bluebird 1.6. It lasted two years and the only reason I ditched it was I thought it would fail the M.O.T. test (mandatory check every car in U.K. has to take anually) because there was a "clunk" noise while driving, once in a while. The engine was over 150k and it was reliable as ever (apart from rainy days).
Sorry, that's not the way NASA works. Every probe/vehicle has to be redesigned so that any form of testing & experience used before gets lost.
Otherwise I can't explain myself why we didn't see a stream of Vikings, Voyagers or even Hubbles, never mention the abandoned Shuttle and Saturn productions.
Although in most cases mission requirements place constraints on the design, it would have been possible to use the information, over and over again.
I tried HP's online support once, it sucked. The poor helpdesk guy was completely clueless, I managed to solve the problem before he even suggested something useful and he was asking questions like "Can you re-install XP again?". No I bloody can't you stupid idiot.
I think they select the helpdesk people from a special pool of low IQ in-duh-viduals or these people really don't care if the problem gets solved or not because they are not paid on that basis.
Typically, if I can't solve a problem, I'm 99% sure a helpdesk moron can't solve it as well. OSS community support tends to be better but occassionally you hit the typical asshole. Expert-information sharing boards tend to be excellent in providing high-level support.
In many cases when you are communicating expert-2-expert level, the only thing you need is a lead, an idea, not a bloody "can you re-install your OS?" question.
If you are not an expert, you are stuck, good luck. If you are, probably you already have a strong idea about helpdesks.
I was a sysop between 1994 and 2000. I met the best people in the world and the worst. Once I was taken out of my house by police in the middle of the night because I had a "dangerous" file on my BBS. Once an other pissed off sysop threathened to kill me. I shut down my own BBS in 1998. After Y2K, I shut down the other BBS I was looking after (the original Sysop basicly lost interest in running the system but didn't want to terminate it so I took over) because I couldn't find anyone dedicated to look after it.
My BBS started as a 2400 baud, 52MB, 4MB RAM i386 with Desqview & Maximus ended as a 28.8k baud, 8MB RAM, 1.2GB i486 with OS/2 (still Maximus! It was one of the best systems out there, fully configurable, written in C, in later versions it had its own programming language, which was just brilliant).
The other system started as 4x2400+8x14.4k modems, 3 boxes with Novell 3 and Maximus and ended as 9x33.6k modems + 2 terminal servers and TCP/IP ability (to allow telnet connections), all running on a single OS/2 box (with Maximus of course).
I had some of my happies memories with my Net friends and probably most of my worst memories as well.
A lot of BBS software never survived Y2K. By that time most of the amateurs had moved over to Internet. A number of software just stopped functioning, some survived... Just... But the community didn't survive Internet. I always hoped our local community would just switch to the net and I tried by best but what's left of them are just a closed, paranoid group and I don't want to have anything to do with them.
Representations of a known language are known as codes or alphabets. Binary is just a code, just like Morse "code". If the code/alphabet can be read as a language and can be converted from each other without replacing any of the words...
Just like a number is same when it is in base 16, 10, 8 or 2. It means the same thing, same number of beads.
A character-by-character replacement of a given set of symbols to an other simply means code.
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Yes but I believe they still measure fuel in libres. Don't ask me why. Also I think it is spelled "klicks". Still, many information about the aircrafts are given in imperial units. The thrust, weight (loaded&unloaded), lift and speed are in imperial units. Btw, the most common speed unit is knots, not mph or km/h and knots is a naval unit measured by a number of knots on a rope that's trailing the ship in a given time period.
Early jets' flight characteristics were just a nightmare. No serious acceleration, if you push the throttle too much or too little flame-out occurs. The flight characteristis were a bitch as well, never mention the amount of fuel they could carry.
Give me a MkV Spitfire any day, any time.
The first replica crashed weeks after its first flight. Nice going. :-)
Mate, buying an airband radio should be least of your worries. The most second hand units cost under 100 pounds.
Countries like Israel make a living out of upgrading old aircraft with the latest avionics. I heard that their F-4 renovation project is brilliant and adds 20 more years to the airframe and weapons systems.
It is very popular in England, I see one flying off Duxford airdfield once in a while. Although it is not supersonic, it is considerable faster than other warbirds located in Duxford (WWI&WWII beasts).
When you are flying, it's the weight that counts.
A high performance military jet is still a military jet. They can be used for all sorts of purposes, recon being one.
I live very close to Imperial War Museum's Duxford Airfield in Cambridge and occassionaly go there to have a walk. They have a number of jet combat aircraft owned by private organizations/people.
Such a use of H2O2 will be inefficient because you will loose energy while electrolysis. The overall efficinecy will be very low. it would be better to use some catalytic process.
That's %MONOPOLY% for all those cmd/bat wizards...
Buran flew and landed safely. Probably it would with astronauts on board. It is an interesting fact that almost all Russian flights are controlled from the base, as much as possible. This is true for Shuttle as well. Computers fly it up, around and down. Buran was just completely computerised. To much of my suprise, Columbia proved that humans on board doesn't make a difference when something goes wrong. It still goes spectacularly wrong when it does.
I'm not yet thirty and I as around 8 when I read about them. On the other hand I'm not an American and I was already into anything related with space.
In my opinion history can be teached safely only when almost all the people who experienced are dead. Before that it becomes political and too hot to handle. According to this yardstick, WWII will be taught in detail in a couple of years time and around 2020, reading about Vietnam and other mid-60s conflicts will be really interesting.
Apart from being a neat idea?
And it will get worse under GWB. His buddies' vision is a militarised space, under US control.
It is rather suprising then, they only lost four people in or returning from space, all on Soyuz vehicles and in both cases while trying something that hasn't been done before (re-entry in first Soyuz flight and re-entry from first Salyut tour (read as Russian Space Station for all ignorant)).
Unless you count Nedelin Disaster their safety performance is better than 14 in Shuttle accidents and three in a pre-flight check accident.
I believe thinking in such "us vs. them" or "Goode olde America vs. Communist bastards" is no good for some time.
Since you mentioned Aral sea, shall I mention Exxon Valdes and Alaska?
I just had a look at this page, this guy's a nutter. He's a perfect case. I just can't believe it. Arrrrgh! I'm ashamed of being a human if this guy is also called a human! (No problem, he calls himself some sort of god apparently).
I read the same book and was horrified how the American astronauts treated their russian counterparts. Especially Michael Foyle (current "commander" of ISS) seemed to be quite a guy. I wouldn't like to be in the same tin can for 6 months with him.
Why would I bundle a particular database with my software? If I did that, I would be free as Microsoft allows me to be.
MSDE is a feature installed on almost all XP systems and provides a replacement for Access functionality but I would still prefer to use SQL92 and compliant with almost everything.
My previous car was a Nissan Bluebird 1.6. It lasted two years and the only reason I ditched it was I thought it would fail the M.O.T. test (mandatory check every car in U.K. has to take anually) because there was a "clunk" noise while driving, once in a while. The engine was over 150k and it was reliable as ever (apart from rainy days).
Featuring artists such as who, who and who???
Otherwise I can't explain myself why we didn't see a stream of Vikings, Voyagers or even Hubbles, never mention the abandoned Shuttle and Saturn productions.
Although in most cases mission requirements place constraints on the design, it would have been possible to use the information, over and over again.
I think they select the helpdesk people from a special pool of low IQ in-duh-viduals or these people really don't care if the problem gets solved or not because they are not paid on that basis.
Typically, if I can't solve a problem, I'm 99% sure a helpdesk moron can't solve it as well. OSS community support tends to be better but occassionally you hit the typical asshole. Expert-information sharing boards tend to be excellent in providing high-level support.
In many cases when you are communicating expert-2-expert level, the only thing you need is a lead, an idea, not a bloody "can you re-install your OS?" question.
If you are not an expert, you are stuck, good luck. If you are, probably you already have a strong idea about helpdesks.
My BBS started as a 2400 baud, 52MB, 4MB RAM i386 with Desqview & Maximus ended as a 28.8k baud, 8MB RAM, 1.2GB i486 with OS/2 (still Maximus! It was one of the best systems out there, fully configurable, written in C, in later versions it had its own programming language, which was just brilliant).
The other system started as 4x2400+8x14.4k modems, 3 boxes with Novell 3 and Maximus and ended as 9x33.6k modems + 2 terminal servers and TCP/IP ability (to allow telnet connections), all running on a single OS/2 box (with Maximus of course).
I had some of my happies memories with my Net friends and probably most of my worst memories as well.
A lot of BBS software never survived Y2K. By that time most of the amateurs had moved over to Internet. A number of software just stopped functioning, some survived... Just... But the community didn't survive Internet. I always hoped our local community would just switch to the net and I tried by best but what's left of them are just a closed, paranoid group and I don't want to have anything to do with them.
Representations of a known language are known as codes or alphabets. Binary is just a code, just like Morse "code". If the code/alphabet can be read as a language and can be converted from each other without replacing any of the words...
Just like a number is same when it is in base 16, 10, 8 or 2. It means the same thing, same number of beads.
A character-by-character replacement of a given set of symbols to an other simply means code.