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[Fabri91]

New Alfa Romeo Giulia

I am pleasantly surprised! A good change from the nice-but-heavy-and-could-have-been-so-better 159.

 

[Scav]

New Alfa Romeo Giulia

I am pleasantly surprised! A good change from the nice-but-heavy-and-could-have-been-so-better 159.

I dunno -- kinda looks like it hit a tree head-on. But I suppose if the numbers are to be believed, the look could be completely justified.

 

[mojoey]

It looks like a BMW from the side, to be honest.

 

[Loru]

It looks like a BMW from the side, to be honest.

Got the same impression. Looks like 3 series with different front.

 

[kamaz]

 

[Urwumpe]

Remove cat before flight - YouTube

Does not look like the cat was especially unhappy during flight. :lol:

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Does not look like the cat was especially unhappy during flight. :lol:

That was more of a "Aw, ... Not AGAIN." look if I ever saw one...:lol:

 

[Quick_Nick]

The Planetary Society's Kickstarter for the LightSail project has 3 hours left. It has amazingly reached its original goal six times over, and it is currently at 99% of the final stretch goal!
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ail-a-revolutionary-solar-sailing-spacecraft/

Edit:

"UPDATE: ‪#‎LightSail‬ has most backers for a sci/tech project in Kickstarter history, thanks to you. Last chance to take part of this historic mission! Campaign ends this morning 6am PDT/9am EDT"

"BREAKING: ‪#‎LightSail‬ Kickstarter campaign reaches final stretch goal at $1,241,615!"

 

[boogabooga]

The Planetary Society's Kickstarter for the LightSail project has 3 hours left. It has amazingly reached its original goal six times over, and it is currently at 99% of the final stretch goal!
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ail-a-revolutionary-solar-sailing-spacecraft/

Edit:

Good for them. Perhaps with their bails of money earmarked for public outreach, they could fund a lightsail add-on for Orbiter...:hmm:

 

[Quick_Nick]

Sometimes I absolutely love myself for keeping backups of files.
They're scattered about and typically only have one backup but eventually I find a device with what I'm looking for.

I was dreading rewriting a bunch of code from last summer but I managed to find the latest version of the files on an external hard drive.

 

[kamaz]

You know, you could get yourself an online git/svn repo.

Or just upload the sources to google drive once in a while.

Just sayin'.

 

[Quick_Nick]

You know, you could get yourself an online git/svn repo.

Or just upload the sources to google drive once in a while.

Just sayin'.

Yeah, that's the thing, the version on Google Drive was old for some reason.
I'm doing SVN but locally, just for versioning. I'll probably move the repo to Google Drive shortly.
I've done SVN on Amazon AWS before. But I don't have any projects worth paying for hosting and I feel less likely to bork my other storage methods.

 

[ex-orbinaut]

F-35 is pretty useless at dogfighting, apparently.

 

[Urwumpe]

F-35 is pretty useless at dogfighting, apparently.

Well, from the outside, we had already been sure about some limitations (wings, engine, canopy)... but I would never have expected it to be THAT bad.

 

[Fabri91]

Here the alleged report.

Tbh many of the points mentioned seem to have to do with further tuning of the control laws required, with the obvious exception of the head movement issues, in addition to the objective being to test the behaviour at high AoA, not to determine wether it would make more sense to stay there during a fight.

It would still be interesting to know the exact fuel load of the F-35 since its internal capacity is 4000 lbs higher than the F-16's internal load plus two external bags. Hope the aircraft isn't being punished for having a larger fuel load.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Well, from the outside, we had already been sure about some limitations (wings, engine, canopy)... but I would never have expected it to be THAT bad.

Agreed. This is the final straw for me. Let the Marines keep theirs for now, but the USAF and Navy need to kill their orders NOW and start over with clean sheet designs.

Honestly, this whole debacle is frighteningly similar to the F-111 program. Seems that the DoD and Lockheed have ignored the history of "Joint" aircraft programs, and it's come back to bite them.

 

[Urwumpe]

Agreed. This is the final straw for me. Let the Marines keep theirs for now, but the USAF and Navy need to kill their orders NOW and start over with clean sheet designs.

I find it much more funny that they claimed that it could replace the A-10... but even the A-10 has better sight out of the cockpit.

 

[RisingFury]

It seems that some of those problems can be addressed through software, but not all.

 

[Fabri91]

True. The problem is that due to the obvious secrecy/classification surrounding the technical and performance aspects of the program it is very difficult to perform any impartial analysis.

Meanwhile: http://theaviationist.com/2015/07/01/f-35s-role-in-green-flag/

 

[MaverickSawyer]

I find it much more funny that they claimed that it could replace the A-10... but even the A-10 has better sight out of the cockpit.

Not to mention an on-station time measured in hours, heavy armor to protect against anti-aircraft fire of all sorts, a SIGNIFICANTLY larger warload, and the mighty GAU-8 Avenger cannon.

I'm sorry, but the A-10 can beat the F-35 in more than just combat ability. I strongly suspect that, should the F-35 get into a furball with an A-10 down low and slow, the Warthog is gonna come out on top.