Fastest Winged Aircraft On October 3, 1967, an X-15A-2 piloted by USAF Major William J. "Pete" Knight, was released from its B-52 mother plane at 10,668 m. (35,000 ft.) above the Mojave Desert where it achieved an absolute speed record of Mach 6.7. (4,520 mph)
Fastest Airliner The Tupolev Tu-144, first flown on December 31, 1968, was reported to have reached Mach 2.4, or 2,587 km/h (1,600 mph), but normal cruising speed was Mach 2.2. The Tupolev TU-144, which Nato codenamed 'Charger', was built as a competitor to the British and French Concorde supersonic jetliner, however one of the aircraft crashed during a presentation at the Paris Air Show in 1973.
Fastest Biplane The fastest biplane was the Italian Fiat CR42B. The plane had a 1,100-hp (753-kw) Daimler-Benz DB601A engine, which propelled the craft to speeds of 520 km/h (323 mph) in 1941. Although only a single CR42B prototype was built, 1,780 of the CR42B Falco were produced. It proved invaluable to the Italian Air Force in World War II.
I realize this last one isn't about speed, i just thought it was cool:) Longest Paper Airplane Flight The level flight duration record for a hand-launched paper airplane is 27.6 sec., by Ken Blackburn of the USA, at the Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, on October 8, 1998.
using the scroll as a third button that can accept various commands.
The mice will also have a feature that lets people switch between open applications by pressing down on the scroll wheel instead of using the keyboard.
i've got a four button mouse from a year and a half ago that will copy/paste/minimize/alt+tab... and you can set it up on any of the buttons.
"but the fact that there are simply so many of them" - that's a good point.
the tactic will probably work against most people though. think of those movie situations where it's 10 vs 1 and none of the 10 advance because at least one of them will bite the bullet.
it's similar to me and will have most people not using p2p simply because they could be the one to pay the fine...
I was just in Norfolk for the week of the 4th. I went on a tour of the shipyard with the super carriers being the highlight. they are immense. something like 8 nuclear reactors power the 1100 ft. long, 300 ft. wide rr.(approximate size) it can travel at about 65 mph.
if you get a chance to head over there... I saw between 20-30 huge ships that include from super carriers, command ship (w/ quarters for the president), WW2 destroyers with 16 inch guns(9 of them), and various government supply ships operated by civilian owned staffs.
"but bill jr., he was a daredevil., just like his old man. he was leaning out saying, 'hey everybody, look at me, look at me'. pow! he was decapitated."
my favorite line. you brought back some memories:)
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WTF happened to the "Thunderbirds" !!???
I use to watch it every night at 10pm CST.
TechTv hasn't been the same for me since they dropped "unscrewed" in its place.
who doesn't like marionettes ? let alone, super spy world savior marionettes and their kickass model ships ?
and, that "pop-up-video" style information was great.
duk
(all from guinnessworldrecords.com)
:)
Fastest Winged Aircraft
On October 3, 1967, an X-15A-2 piloted by USAF Major William J. "Pete" Knight, was released from its B-52 mother plane at 10,668 m. (35,000 ft.) above the Mojave Desert where it achieved an absolute speed record of Mach 6.7. (4,520 mph)
Fastest Airliner
The Tupolev Tu-144, first flown on December 31, 1968, was reported to have reached Mach 2.4, or 2,587 km/h (1,600 mph), but normal cruising speed was Mach 2.2. The Tupolev TU-144, which Nato codenamed 'Charger', was built as a competitor to the British and French Concorde supersonic jetliner, however one of the aircraft crashed during a presentation at the Paris Air Show in 1973.
Fastest Biplane
The fastest biplane was the Italian Fiat CR42B. The plane had a 1,100-hp (753-kw) Daimler-Benz DB601A engine, which propelled the craft to speeds of 520 km/h (323 mph) in 1941. Although only a single CR42B prototype was built, 1,780 of the CR42B Falco were produced. It proved invaluable to the Italian Air Force in World War II.
I realize this last one isn't about speed, i just thought it was cool
Longest Paper Airplane Flight
The level flight duration record for a hand-launched paper airplane is 27.6 sec., by Ken Blackburn of the USA, at the Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, on October 8, 1998.
hillarious. made my morning.
That's funny as shit!!!
if we could see what difference it would make if one group of patients was told they were prayed for and the other wasn't.
i've got a four button mouse from a year and a half ago that will copy/paste/minimize/alt+tab... and you can set it up on any of the buttons.
"but the fact that there are simply so many of them" - that's a good point.
the tactic will probably work against most people though. think of those movie situations where it's 10 vs 1 and none of the 10 advance because at least one of them will bite the bullet.
it's similar to me and will have most people not using p2p simply because they could be the one to pay the fine...
I was just in Norfolk for the week of the 4th. I went on a tour of the shipyard with the super carriers being the highlight. they are immense. something like 8 nuclear reactors power the 1100 ft. long, 300 ft. wide rr.(approximate size) it can travel at about 65 mph.
if you get a chance to head over there... I saw between 20-30 huge ships that include from super carriers, command ship (w/ quarters for the president), WW2 destroyers with 16 inch guns(9 of them), and various government supply ships operated by civilian owned staffs.
it was awesome.
is the funniest I've ever seen...
"but bill jr., he was a daredevil., just like his old man. he was leaning out saying, 'hey everybody, look at me, look at me'. pow! he was decapitated."
:)
my favorite line. you brought back some memories
Gates signs deal with US government to help put a windows os on the desk of every child in the newly freed iraq.
-AP
especially funny to me...
currently looking at COBOL that was written in 1983.
$40,500,000,000
If he spent at a dollar per second it would be more like... 468,750 days. or 1284.24 years. (at 365 days/year)
which is a considerable amount more.
and, if you spent a dollar per second for 1255 days and 12 hours you would've started with....
$108,475,200
dididi da dididadi didida
question 1... how do you feel about people making fun of you because you're a shitty actor ?
at least we could've planted that one later on, after he had warmed to the whole slashdot interview idea.
dude,
say 1 five minute song at 192 is about 7 mb.
500,000mb / 7 = 71,428 songs
71,428 songs * 5 min = 357,140 minutes
or 5952 hours
there's a good chance that none of us will ever meet anyone will a collection this large. ever.