A True Drag Racing Legend.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Friday, March 30, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
Best European Fast Trains
We spotted this Eurostar in Brussles in 1997.
Those operate through the Channel Tunnel between London and Paris. We got to ride one once. We hit 300 KPH.
Back to '97. We had just arrived Brussles on a Thalys like this.
We passed through Paris and got on this sleeper train in Irun enroute to Lisbon ...
Seats folded up, and a bed folded down.
And a few days later, Madrid to Seville.
Spain's fancy fast train was the "AVE."
There weren't many others in my car ..
Free in-flight food ...
Sevile train station ...
And a French TGV ..
And then onto this "EuroCity" to Munich ..
Those operate through the Channel Tunnel between London and Paris. We got to ride one once. We hit 300 KPH.
Back to '97. We had just arrived Brussles on a Thalys like this.
The interior looks like this ...
Seats folded up, and a bed folded down.
Spain's fancy fast train was the "AVE."
There weren't many others in my car ..
Free in-flight food ...
Sevile train station ...
Another Thalys ... probably in Paris ..
And a French TGV ..
And then onto this "EuroCity" to Munich ..
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Brazil Truck Tire Inflation System Tubes Rodoar
"The Rodoar® monitors and maintains tire pressure even when the vehicle is in motion."
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Space Shuttle and Space Station Flyover
We took the picture below in 2008. It shows the Space Shuttle Atlantis falling away from the ISS after undocking.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Recently Unclassified UAV Images
A Chief Scientist for the Munitions Directorate of the AFRL at Elgin AFB sent us these photos of a Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle, but provided no elaboration.
The photos appear to show the aircraft in a ferrite anechoic chamber.
There is no scale reference, so we are left to guess the size.
The flexible wing flight control surfaces obviously represent some challenges to the Kutta-Joukowski Theorem. As far as structural characteristics, we believe the fuselage might be of aggregate carbon fiber compositry. The surveillance and target acquisition sensor array integrated into the foreplanes are likely superplastically formed and diffusion bonded.
A real mystery is the polyimide MLI covering the vehicle, suggesting it may be capable of spaceflight.
The photos appear to show the aircraft in a ferrite anechoic chamber.
There is no scale reference, so we are left to guess the size.
The flexible wing flight control surfaces obviously represent some challenges to the Kutta-Joukowski Theorem. As far as structural characteristics, we believe the fuselage might be of aggregate carbon fiber compositry. The surveillance and target acquisition sensor array integrated into the foreplanes are likely superplastically formed and diffusion bonded.
A real mystery is the polyimide MLI covering the vehicle, suggesting it may be capable of spaceflight.
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