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That is a great photo!



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Not true, where I worked the area was rigorously checked and the external geometry adjusted until they got what was desired. That was a very recent aircraft.

WTF? The only thing that I can come up with is that they rewired the whole car from scratch and had each circuit direct wired to the battery with it's own wire loom?

A mechanic that I used to know pretty well once found that a bearing (think it was a main, but not positive) that had been replaced with what he was pretty sure was a piece of leather, probably from a belt as he was tearing a motor down.

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we are no going back any time soon given the yahoo in charge

Okey Doke.

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There's less plastic on that car than on the chick

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Hahaha! That's one way to fine tune the heater.

That pic reminded me of something my uncle did to his new '66 427 'Vette convertible.

Before I go any further, he was raised on a farm in a family of 5 kids and had a PhD. in Psychology or Psychiatry... not sure which... just focus on the "raised on a farm" part... because I'm sure as one of the oldest boys, he probably helped his dad work on the Farmall and the rest of the equipment to keep it all running.

He dissected the top radiator hose in half (front & back halves) and inserted a bona fide outdoor faucet fitting (shutoff valve?) spliced/soldered inline between two short pieces of copper plumbing pipe the same OD as the ID of the radiator hose. I was in my mid-teens then and didn't ask him about it, but I'm sure it was there so he didn't have to worry about his thermostat going bad.

Yep, it had one of those round, painted grip knobs like the one on this faucet... I think it was blue, though.

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The car was Marina Blue... maybe that's why. (not his)

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Hide and seek: Feds find $20 million in a mattress - CNN.com

and the coffee table?

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That is an expensive coffee table! ^^^^

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I thought you were a submarine guy?

I imagine that fuel cost was a factor over packaging concerns on that project. Or perhaps an aircraft which spends a lot of time in the transitional speeds between subsonic and supersonic speeds.

On boats and hovercraft there is "getting over the hump (hump speed)" transition from displacement mode to planing or hover mode. It would be of interest to me to find out if there is a similar Whitcomb Rule/Area Rule for these types of watercraft. Thinking perhaps narrow bow and wide stern so the front pops up with the rear to follow. Triangular not rectangular footprint.


Why do super sonic fighter jets have narrow waist? [duplicate]
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Dropped out of school, Submarines for a short time, ME degree, Aircraft in structural design.

Fuel cost as such was not an issue. Range was a significant design requirement. Meeting a proper area rule was an element of drag in transitional speed and supersonic, due to undesirable drag due to shock waves. In the wrong place, separation/ drag/ shock waves could ruin aircraft control also.

Everytime I wanted to to change the outside mold line for better structure or cost, the first thing was to see if it would penalize aerodynamics and ruin the aerodynamic testing which defined the performance. I virtually always lost, especially when the change was near the max cross section or affected the tails and wings.
You don't see a wasp waist just due to the extensive integration of the whole exterior surface.