so renault's new team principle will be the technical director, Bob Bell. The loss of Symonds in gonna hurt a lot, but Bell has got a lot of history.
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Errrr....Lola is completely and utterly independent from aston martin! they have worked together for the current aston martin Le Mans car but theyve had a big fallout over that and they probably wont be working together any time soon.Mekstizzle wrote:
I didn't know that Aston had a separate racing division called Lola, though. I suppose all of that was before my time
that, by the way, was Nigel Stepney. the same guy who gave the Ferrari data to Mclaren in Spy-gate!maxwell777 wrote:
Just to lighten the f1 mood atm...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yePx6BbpEsc
Great fall.
I like schumis reaction, more like lack of.
excellent movie, the actor playing Landa was top notch. big fan of Tarantino movies anyways. definitely recommended to see in the theatres!
the complete lack of any information from Manor hasnt really convinced me that Manor can do a half-decent job on the grid next year. USF1 have been all over the news and claim to have fully designed their car on CAD. Adrian Campos has done some interviews and stuff too. but not a word from manor so far! why Prodrive or Lola didnt get the spots, who the hell knows?!?!
from an engineering point of view, the only thing that can be done to reduce damage from birdstrikes is to design tougher, more impact-resistant components in the engine. but at the end of the day, a birdstrike is such a rare event that significantly increasing the strength of each compressor/turbine blade and the combustor components is just not worth the extra weight and cost. Not to say that the birdstrike factor is ignored in engine design, im just saying that more could be done but just isnt.
the answer is really simple, dont know what the debate is about! the common factor (a-b) is actually equal to zero and the noob who wrote the original equation just cancels the zero from both sides. what the answer 1 = 2 is actually saying is that 1 x 0 is equal to 2 x 0 , i.e. 0. simple.
well luckily all the good jobs have some sort of required minimum grade, and luckily the british university system has a grading scale which is given along with your degree (i.e. a first-class degree in aerospace engineering or a upper-second class degree in business, etc). in short, if you give a shit about your career and have some sort of aspirations in life then college grades are everything. if you want to work full-time at mcdonalds then maybe not so important.
to disturb you a bit more, let me tell you that the temperature in the combustion chamber of a typical aero-engine is about twice that of the combustion chambers melting temperatureSplinterStrike wrote:
Now thats mildly disturbing Ill.......just stick to the major carriers.M.O.A.B wrote:
They were speaking with a guy in Comoros who said that the Yemeni planes were horrible, busted toilets, seats that moved and even air coming in between the parts of something (no idea how it could go to high altitude with some kind of breach like that).SplinterStrike wrote:
The surviving male toddler is now apparently a 14 year old girl...How does a reporter miss that one?
More survivors reported to have been found as well, including the Captain though authorities arent releasing any information at the moment. Poor weather affected the region at the time of the crash, with wind speeds up to 61 km/h and choppy seas, but still no calls on what caused the crash.
Granted, it is only a day old, but I'm wondering what brought this one down. Mechanical failure would be my guess over pilot error, considering the aircraft.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/06/3 … an374.html
News update: Black box located! Efforts are underway to recover it
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8127947.stm
thank goodness. a friend of mine is working at Williams for a year starting this summer and it wouldve sucked for him to be there when his team was fighting with Force India for the WCC!
goddamnit. I had an interview for a year-placement in a FOTA team, and if I get the position it wont actually be in F1 then, if the breakaway happens
more like MEDIA fail, because all along the Brazilian AF declined to confirm that the wreckage was from the A330 but fools at Air France, CNN and BBC and then pretty much every other news network reported the wreckage as being from the A330. All of this despite the fact that nobody had even had a proper look at the wreckage as it hadnt been recovered yet. Biggest fail from Air France because theyve been bullshitting their way through this entire disaster. i think 4 or 5 hours after the plane went missing, they had already decided it was because of a lightning strike.justice wrote:
The debris found is now apprently not from the Air France jet at all.... Brazilian military fail.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8083474.stm
the a330 had a really good safety record, news article says only prior fatal accident occured when the plane was being flight tested 15 yrs ago. air france also has a good safety record. they had an a340 crash on landing in canada in 05, the sucker burnt to the ground pretty fast but there were zero fatalities as everyone left the plane within 90 seconds (more to do with crew/flight attendant training than anything else i would say!)
thats where the discussion should be.FatherTed wrote:
oh fuck i made a thread about this in dst
Correction. On average, each passenger plane in the world gets hit by lightning once a year. thats a hell of a lot of lightning strikes. Last catastrophic lightning strike accident that i can think of was a Super Puma that got its composite tail rotor blasted in 1995, forcing it to ditch in the north sea. now widebody jets are "protected" against lightning strikes with conducting strips but thats where the debate lies...are they protected enough? especially with the increasing use of composites in the fuselage?Zimmer wrote:
On average, 1 plane a year gets hit by lightning and there hasn't been an incident since 1967.
Just got an email from the head of department at my uni saying a graduate from our course just got selected by ESA in their latest batch of astronauts
that Soyuz rocket looks badasss. will be watching this live...looks like launch is in less than an hours time.
the maximum fuckoff camera angle is amazing.
Canopy tells me its german. but wtf is it?!?
bahah. i saw the picture before i saw the name of the poster and knew it was you.
hey Kmarion, any idea what part of the vehicle the 'chine' is? is it a fancy word for wing root?
Happy about the fact that ive secured a summer internship (after about 6 months of applications and stressful waiting), in an area that I could pretty much call a 'dream job'.
Not so happy about the 2nd year exams just round the corner. this stuff really drains you, i havent been out with friends for at least 2 months now.
Not so happy about the 2nd year exams just round the corner. this stuff really drains you, i havent been out with friends for at least 2 months now.
that blood red water is amazing. imagine you saw that say, 200 years ago when people were really superstitious and scientific knowledge probably wouldn't have been able to explain the phenomenon?
'tis a TSR 2 indeed!
interesting little article on an F-11 that shot ITSELF down: http://www.aerofiles.com/tiger-tail.html
haha. well i am a major aircraft enthusiast, hoping to get into the aerospace industry down the line. i had come across that picture before while doing some research on large turbofans, so when you posted the pic all i had to do was dig thru my search history tbh my first guess was a 757 from the way the nacelle juts out..Ioan92 wrote:
Enthusiast?tahadar wrote:
Airtran A320-232
(urrite)
this website has some good info on the plane. The plane didnt have a standard designation the way an 'F-18' does, just refferec to as the BAC/English Electric Lightning. The designations were things like P.1 (prototype), F.1, etc.seymorebutts443 wrote:
what is the planes full designation?Mugen wrote:
According to wiki it was even the first jet to achieve supercruise. We all know we can't trust wiki for shit, but this is prolly true. And I remember hearing bout that some time ago, perhaps i'll look it up.FEOS wrote:
Pretty sure it didn't have supercruise, as that is the ability to go supersonic in mil power (no afterburner). May very well have been the first UK jet to go supersonic in level flight, though.
this page backs up the supercruise ability of the prototype lightnings: http://www.ukmaag.co.uk/aircraft/lightn … tning.html
Airtran A320-232
yup! quite a nice plane, first to have the 'holy' supercruise ability.1stSFOD-Delta wrote:
Lightningtahadar wrote:
http://judicial-inc.biz/Vilerwas_6.jpg
and just to add to what longbow said, i remember reading that the Mig-25 was introduced to counter the high speed / high altitude XB-70 Valkyrie.
yes, its meant to be a Mig-25 (Iraq never got any Mig-31's as far as i know). One of these bad boys shot down a USN F-18 in 1991 apparently!
hellz yeah! but you could have used this pic:
/patriotism
Sydney you call that a jet!
/i-said-a330-before winTPM-J45P3R- wrote:
/winIoan92 wrote:
Easy, Airbus A330-300 equipped with Pratt & Whitney 400 engines.
silly americans. its an A330 isn't it?
KfirRacoon_Flyer wrote:
Dassault Mirage 2000
very niiiiice, i like! the J-10B / FC-20 has got the diverterless supersonic intake (DSI) seen on the F-35 and is rumored to be getting ready for an AESA radar. As if the J-10 on wake wasnt annoying enough already. your turn!The_Sniper_NM wrote:
J-10B Multirole.
just to keep it rolling:
and some specifics please! (i.e. C-130J as opposed to C-130)
and some specifics please! (i.e. C-130J as opposed to C-130)
haha bastard!! guess its your turnRacoon_Flyer wrote:
Boeing 707-385C Phalcon
Google'd 707 Big Nose and it came up on Airliners.net.
HAI GAIZ
EDIT: sorry for being retarded and not posting earlier!
747sp!
T-46 "Eaglet" ( <- lol)
the twin tails totally gave it away as a fairchild-republic aircraft
the twin tails totally gave it away as a fairchild-republic aircraft
he has 70 people vouching for him. I think that says a lot.
complete anticlimax. was hoping for a rosberg podium on merit, not a lottery result like hiedfeld (who just sat around, got overtaken left, right and center, yet still gets away with 2nd place). bernie is an idiot for forcing such a late start when a monsoon shower is 100% guaranteed since the dawn of time.
London GP
10.1 miles
Sights and areas of interest:
- My house
- My uni
- My old school
- Abbey Road Studios / Abbey Rd. Crossing
- Regents Park / U.S. Embassadors big-ass house
- Park Lane
- Hyde Park / the Serpentine
- Harrods
- Queen can probably see track from her window
- Oxford St.
- Baker St. / Madame Tussauds / Sherlock Holmes can watch the race
- Lords Cricket Ground
10.1 miles
Sights and areas of interest:
- My house
- My uni
- My old school
- Abbey Road Studios / Abbey Rd. Crossing
- Regents Park / U.S. Embassadors big-ass house
- Park Lane
- Hyde Park / the Serpentine
- Harrods
- Queen can probably see track from her window
- Oxford St.
- Baker St. / Madame Tussauds / Sherlock Holmes can watch the race
- Lords Cricket Ground
its obviously ben collins, it was pretty much stated as fact in the richard hammond crash report.
wow, my personal statement for my UK university (for engineering) appilcations spoke about stuff in a similar way. I spoke about starting off with legos too. If you want a copy of my essay i can email it to you...PM me.