I'll be wearing either an Army UCP boonie or Hybrids.jp Sasquatch cap and either an Integra Type R shirt, Team Lazy shirt, ITR Expo Road America shirt, or Sex Breakfast of Champions shirt. If the company is able to get me credentials I'll be in the hot pits or out in the spectator areas shooting.

 

One of my exams for next week was postponed. Pretty much makes me go now.

thanks falcong sr!

 

The top two posters are on the road so all we got is

*crickets chirping*

 

2x WEC race-day grandstand tix. $60 for the paid.

F1 can suck my ****.

(but I'm still going to F1)

 

falcong sr, one of my professor's did some work with NASA to investigate what a med-evac UAV wood look like. Proposed a jet turbine to power a 3 phase generator, which supplied power to the 4 rotor systems. Like a quad-copter and V-22 had sexorz.

Using jet-turbine to power the generator? Seems... unique for aircrafts at least.

EDIT: Reason for study was helo's are too slow. This has to go >215 kts.

 

that's an interesting take on it. i see the logic of generating 3-phase power for electric brushless motor systems which run pretty well on 3-phase. i guess almost every airliner has an APU that generates power this way before main engines are lit. see BOEING B737: AUXILLARY POWER UNIT (APU) has description and photo


also check out this bad ************. same idea sans APU https://vimeo.com/174046158

 

robits

 

fleet of roombas sweep up the body parts

large mechanical claw

 

Are you talking **** about ALMS?

 

I'm Ron Burgundy?

 

Medic onboard. Still UAV cause medic doesn't do any controls of flight. Professor only worked on payload and configuration type of ****. Someone else (group) worked on controls (pilot vs autonomous ****).

Although the medic could help the system/pilot find a nice place to land should it be required.

Not sure I'd want to ride in that death trap yet. But UAV's are doing the business overseas, so I'm sure it'll work sooner rather than later.

PS: that UAV was badass. I bet it's espensive doe.

 

$6k for a turnkey but a lot of hobbyists are kitting it up. Still a bit of a cluster on the controls side. There are a lot of power / control options and you have to program everything yourself - example when transitioning to flight from hover you need to mix in some elevator to control pitch and each plane is different in terms of mass, CoG, and thrust so if you get it wrong you're doing a loop de loop.

when it goes out of control apparently the saving grace is you can just throw it back in hover and it'll sort itself out (as long as you're still a couple mistakes high)

 

That's less than I figured. And is it bad that I would spend that kind of money on a bicycle, and thus not really think $6k is a bit steep?

That sure seems like rather serious toy though. The nerding must be strong.

 

Fred or bust.

ps: I hate you.

 

the pixels! It's like Rosberg's baby

 

And I'm resting in a Ross parking lot off the 580 freeway and 106th avenue. I'm the only non black in sight and two dudes already asked me for change to finish laundry. Too bad I leave Sunday morning. I hear that sideshows happen Sunday night. I wanted to see some whips being ghost ridden.

 

interesting...interesting

 

Saw tire mark donuts on corner of 108th and Julius. Must've been a sideshow.

 

you're a brave little toaster

 

 

Yeesh

Hope you brought your fotay and your 40

 

Versenna wins P1.

 

https://streamable.com/afwk

to the window to the wall

 

Mercedes struggled at this circuit last year, failing to get the tyres working. Lewis Hamilton - who began the session by trialling the halo for the first time - and Nico Rosberg ended 2016's opening practice down in fourth and fifth.

But their times - 0.603s and 0.690s respectively off the pace - were on soft tyres, the hardest of the three compounds available this weekend.

When all the drivers were running on ultra-softs, and on high fuel, earlier in the session, there was little too choose between Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes.