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I was told a lobster, a shrimp and a crawfish have much of the same anatomical structure but to different scales. While I've never tried getting all the clawmeat in one piece, there have been cases with lobsters where I have managed to pull this off.

Honestly, I look at those displays and think to the people who need to be told that: "The Stupid, it Burns!"

No, what I was talking about had to do with centrifugal force counterbalancing gravity. If you travel at orbital velocity, the two balance each other out. The thing is, what happens if you go 1/5th orbital velocity, 1/2 orbital velocity? That's what I was getting at. How do you even...

Flying around the earth at 17500 or 18000 miles an hour 300 miles up or so produces a centrifugal force that completely negates the effect of gravity. I'm curious what effect flying at lower speeds have. For example, what effect does flying at Mach 5 at 100,000', Mach 10 at 150000' have on...

@BiffF15 From the limited research I've done it seems that might very well have capped the limit of what the F-4B would do. The aircraft appears to basically have departed at that point. @XBe02Drvr I'm curious if you're aware of whether the F-8 had any issues with tail-blanking at high...

I just stumbled onto this now, and I gotta say I was surprised to find this out.

Actually, I often use screen-caps of text-files to get around Twitter's limits.

I presume this lead application would be applied supersonically?

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Yeah, that is generally true.

That's quite a catapulting system: The catapult stroke is shorter than a modern US supercarrier and the Manchester was quite substantial in mass.

@BiffF15, @drgondog I'm curious if the F-4B's effective limit was at the point of nose-slicing since that had to do with (as I understand it) the rudder becoming ineffective owing to the fuselage blanking the tail.

If I recall, this had to do with the fact that the F-5 aggressors were simulating a MiG-21 variant that had a RWR, so they kluged a low-cost device that did the job.

Actually I'm pretty sure I said I was surprised they wouldn't have figured that out.

That is actually a pretty good summary to be honest... I'm surprised the people of Ukraine haven't figured that out. It seems the Russians have been carrying out counter-value (albeit conventional) strikes aimed at little other depopulating zones held by ethnic Ukrainians. It stands to reason...