MORE random pics......

[chapo]

Nelson Piquet and wife attending drivers education meeting(traffic school) after both lost their licenses for bad driving

[teenerted1]

why didnt they attach some floatation to that boat before they pullled it off the brakewater? or did they forget that the tide was coing in?

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[m325ix]

Edited - Z-man

[madmmac]

Just got back...Puamana looking back towards Lahaina....missing it already.

[tshore]

Question as to what on earth this is..




It's a Rooski flying boat. This link give some info

http://www.testpilot.ru/russia/bartini/vva/vva_e.htm

[Racerbvd]

An old SCCA racer


Chopped, shortened & narrowed bug

[URY914]

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[Racerbvd]

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by VINMAN

Seahawk, I understand that the rear vectored fan is supposed to increase foward speed. But is'nt the VNES limited by retreating blade stall?

Absolutely correct...as lift is transfered from the main rotor to the wings, power is transfered away from the main rotor transmission, in effect keeping the rotor tip speed (where they stall) below RBS. Like all hybrid systems (tilt rotor for example) the transition period is most critical. Maneuvering speed is everything.

I don't know where they are in the test profile, but VTDP seems promising

[johnco]

[johnco]

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[JeremyD]

Originally Posted by teenerted1

why didnt they attach some floatation to that boat before they pullled it off the brakewater? or did they forget that the tide was coing in?

Apparently the autopilot put em on the rocks - and I imagine the salvage company got sued too - fools - it sure didn;t look like the boat was banged up that bad to where they couldn't have kept it afloat when they got it off the rocks. pretty stupid if you ask me...

[ZOO]

What is that thing labeled Andial?



Me, on Tuesday.

[ZOO]

One more:

[ZOO]

And some air-cooled goodness:

[Sarc]

[daepp]

Originally Posted by ZOOMiata

What is that thing labeled Andial?

It looks to me like a larger sump/crankcase for a flat 4.