MORE random pics......

[billybek]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

Celine was a probe to test your defences.

[widebody911]

[john70t]

[john70t]

[john70t]

Computer people: Can you please explain this glitch in the matrix?
1). This image was downloaded from the net and stored onto my hard drive.

2). I uploaded it from my hard drive directly to Pelican Parts.

3). The upload took a long time.
"Transferring from Imgur............"

4). WTF?

[Heel n Toe]

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by john70t

Can you please explain this glitch in the matrix?

You probably saved it from a Russian website and now your computer and all the Pelican Parts servers are PWNED by Mother Russia.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by john70t

Simple answer (or probably WAG) from another layman:
Is that "stall" is the lack of airflow....due to low speed or turbulence....over both the airplane wings or props.

The blades can't grab air in a complete vacuum or very high altitudes.
When this happens everything becomes a rock.

With counter-rotating props the front blades act as sort of a turbo for the rear blades.
Instead of being enveloped in nothingness, they now work in a pre-pressurized envelope.

I'm calling BS on that one.
If the fronts are sucking vacuum the rears would get prepressurized vacuum just the same, 2x0 is still 0.

But they are something like 10-15% more efficient, but that has nothing to do with vacuum, or high altitudes, it's just inherent efficiency across the performance envelope compared to single prop of similar size and blade design.
And it's offset again by higher weight and maintenance needs due to complexity..

I think the main advantage on that plane shown, cargo, is smaller diameter prop, so better clearance from the ground, safer, and better for dirt strip landings where stuff might be in the bushes, i don't know.
+ VSTOL performance and ability to feather the second prop once airborne and cruising, so better fuel efficiency.

[Jbabl]

Originally Posted by pavulon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra-rotating_propellers

After WWII when the Soviets took all the V2s and 262s with BMW 003 and Junkers 004 engines and everything else, over 6000 engineers and scientists, some paid, some forced labor, the "team" developed the Bear turboprops from those 003 and 004 designs

Aside from that, Soviets bought 55 Rolls Royce Nene engines used in the Mig 15s
Technical assistance from the West was ongoing from 1917 on, Reverse engineered Caterpillars were converted to metric, DC3 complete factory sold to the Soviets(the LI-2)Ford Model A was the GAZ exact replica- and these days the RD-180 rocket engines are sold to the US

[Racerbvd]

[Racerbvd]

[Racerbvd]

[Racerbvd]

[Racerbvd]

[widebody911]

[widebody911]

[widebody911]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

You probably saved it from a Russian website and now your computer and all the Pelican Parts servers are PWNED by Mother Russia.

Sounds like you have a nyet-work problem

[daepp]

Originally Posted by ludditeengineer

In my state, they can't do that. It is a crime to move private property to effect a repossession.

Yes, both cars are front-wheel drive so unless the owners set the parking brake the rear wheels will roll freely. 3 friends and I once picked up the front wheels of an old Ford Fiesta and walked it down the road like a wheelbarrow. We hid it in the woods and my buddy could not figure out how we moved his locked car.

In a prior (banking) life, we kept a little petty cash around when we needed a little help.
Car locked in garage? - against the law for us to go inside Offer the gf or kid $500 to push it onto the driveway.
Car seldom at home? Offer the neighbor $100 to drop a dime whenever they saw it. All surprisingly effective (even if I do say so myself...)!

[widebody911]

[Racerbvd]