I wonder how many young people in their 20s are getting exposed and trained on how to maintain these things?
Cool things I found on YouTube or other videos...
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If you mean the Gnome, probably one in a million. Unless there was a family interest you wouldn't get any exposure.
In WWI many airplane engines seemed to work like that. I never understood why, it would seem that cooling is not that important. Between airplane forward motion and propeller wash you would think that there would be plenty of airflow. By WWII those engines had all become stationary with the crankshaft rotating and they have sufficient cooling, at least the ones with only a few rows of cylinders. These were called radial engines, I don't know if that term still applies to the WWI engines.
I was in the Denver Wings over the Rockies museum with my daughter and they had one of the fixed crankshaft engines on display. I was asking the mechanics there if they knew why the engines were one way then the other and they didn't know.
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Interesting fact: The Gnome used "blip" throttle control. Instead of regulating how much fuel went to the engine, you turned the engine off and on to regulate speed.
When your race car is on fire, keep up the pace and make sure the flame front is behind the cockpit before you stop and exit. Good if there are fire marshals around as well.
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Can't sleep. No footy. Decided to fire up youtoob. This is hilarious...
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Oh, I'm going to get in soooo much trouble...
Road legal 917.
Heck yes, every chance I got
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Things I could say but holding back are gold but hey I'm in a sweet kind of a mood
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Things I could say but holding back are gold but hey I'm in a sweet kind of a mood
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Okay, this may be a bit of self promotion, but, at the same time, there might be some here who find this interesting.
A couple of weeks ago, I visited Israel. While there, three of us walked the length of Hezekiah's tunnel, a channel hewn through solid rock underneath Jerusalem sometime around 800 BCE (presumably on the order of King Hezekiah) in order to access all the water of the Gihon spring inside the walls of the city of Jerusalem and deny access to any of that water to Assyrians who would soon besiege the city.
When I went through the tunnel, I carried a GoPro. When I got home, I edited the raw video and added commentary.
You can find that video here:
A couple of weeks ago, I visited Israel. While there, three of us walked the length of Hezekiah's tunnel, a channel hewn through solid rock underneath Jerusalem sometime around 800 BCE (presumably on the order of King Hezekiah) in order to access all the water of the Gihon spring inside the walls of the city of Jerusalem and deny access to any of that water to Assyrians who would soon besiege the city.
When I went through the tunnel, I carried a GoPro. When I got home, I edited the raw video and added commentary.
You can find that video here:
There are a lot of misinformed karens in this world.Things I could say but holding back are gold but hey I'm in a sweet kind of a mood
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The Porsche Mission X video doesn't mention that it's an electric drive hypercar.
https://www.porsche.com/usa/mission-x/
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Can’t go wrong with posting reliable information in a thread that doesn’t hijack others. At this point, I haven’t seen a new argument against EVs in well over a year (maybe 2). Everything I see is a rerun that was covered years ago.
First paragraph of that link:
“Many Porsche vehicles have created history. The Mission X is about to create the future – the spectacular reinterpretation of a lightweight hypercar with Le-Mans-style doors and high-performance electric drive is an innovative vision of the future.”
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It *was* dark, but I didn't see any.
Fishing, anyone?
A minute of your time for some beautiful footwork.
Err, no. Very uncool.
If I could have only been in that boat. What species of fish were they?
What a great restoration.
I'd give $1K dollars to take a ride with him.
Salmon, apparently.
In Australia? I didn't know that they were in that area of the planet.
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I would think getting used to people constantly dodging out of your way would make it difficult to drive normally in a city.
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