Random TRANSPORTATION pictures

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Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

Yup, I even linked the photo from the Mansfied bar web site and still typed the name in wrong.
https://maps.roadtrippers.com/stories/jayne-mansfield-bar. Getting old is tough.

Did ya know she had dandruff? (old bad joke)

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Originally Posted by URY914

Cool the Paul Revere Stage Coach. Dont know if I love the car, but I love the originality

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Vanderbilt Cup Races - Blog - Mystery Foto #3 Solved: The #66 Tucker ‘48 Special Racer at the 1947 Indy 500

In 1947, Preston Tucker wanted to promote his future Tucker '48 automobiles by entering race cars in the 1947 Indy 500 Race.

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^^^^911 Meets Tatra?

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MIT and NASA engineers demonstrate a new kind of airplane wing
Assembled from tiny identical pieces, the wing could enable lighter, more energy-efficient aircraft designs.
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office
March 31, 2019
MIT and NASA engineers demonstrate a new kind of airplane wing | MIT News

While it would be possible to include motors and cables to produce the forces needed to deform the wings, the team has taken this a step further and designed a system that automatically responds to changes in its aerodynamic loading conditions by shifting its shape — a sort of self-adjusting, passive wing-reconfiguration process.

“We’re able to gain efficiency by matching the shape to the loads at different angles of attack,” says Cramer, the paper’s lead author. “We’re able to produce the exact same behavior you would do actively, but we did it passively.”

This is all accomplished by the careful design of the relative positions of struts with different amounts of flexibility or stiffness, designed so that the wing, or sections of it, bend in specific ways in response to particular kinds of stresses.

The resulting lattice, he says, has a density of 5.6 kilograms per cubic meter. By way of comparison, rubber has a density of about 1,500 kilograms per cubic meter. “They have the same stiffness, but ours has less than roughly one-thousandth of the density,” Jenett says.