Recent content by swampyankee

I wonder where putin's next invasion will be? In the West, I'm thinking Estonia. He can be pretty sure the US won't do anything, considering he got far more than he would have from just about any other US administration

I don't think they need any.

Seatbelts? Too woke!

Nobody will notice.... As an aside, hope the pilot didn't read The Cold Equations

The elephant in the room is that about 4 countries are responsible for a lot of the greenhouse gas emissions and (at least one) is run by complete morons who dismiss everything they disagree with as a hoax. God, how stupid does a person have to be to say coal-fired power plants are better for...

Or Florida. Anybody but a complete moron would notice the flooding -- from the "king tide" -- that's becoming quite regular in Miami. Did that happen 50 years ago quite so frequently? Sorry; all the evidence for sea level rise is 100% reliable. If you don't like it, do you also support the...

And trump's going to end it how? Forcing Ukraine to cede all disputed territories to Russia and forbid any credible security guarantees? Chamberlain is not an apt comparison. Unity Mitford may be a better choice.

Hail's pretty bad

Happy Birthday!

Ireland needs something resembling an air defense system. Against drones, a few PC-9s with RCMG would be adequate. Something that could keep up with a Russian MPA would be better

Right now, the behavior and dictats coming from the current resident of the White House is making Neville Chamberlain's diplomacy regarding the Sudentenland appear the height of statemanship. This peace plan is the biggest reward a third party has given an invader in modern history.

Where I live, we have some very good local roasters. When I can find it, Equal Exchange gets compliments from most.

Streamlining radials -- mostly that means minimizing cooling drag -- is harder than streamlining the engine itself of a liquid-cooled engine, but streamlining a liquid-cooled engine's cooling system isn't much easier. As to American aerodynamicists, first, pre-WW2 aerodynamics was very much an...

A319 or A356, per Aluminum-Silicon (Al-Si) Alloys: Properties, Applications, and Benefits – tensemetal

Compensating? Me? Never!