flying_mechanic

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I actually liked Xenocide, it was an interesting juxtaposition of his writing arguing one ideal and his own xenophobic personally held ideals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The first one is quite short, and well worth the quick read

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

True, though they are more common than you think, there's still thousands of flights daily across the U.S. and where I live its the only mode of transportation in/out of a lot of communities. On thing that's common though is a mod to allow the planes to run on car gas, 85 or better octane. That helps us and them (much cheaper) and a lot of modern small aircraft are moving to diesel piston engines like the Thielert engines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

And its still not entirely banned in the US, AVGAS for small planes is a "low" lead fuel that still contains a decent amount of lead.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Implying the presence of a dildo as a structural member(ha) doesn't negate or speak hatefully about the use of sex toys or people who use them, but it does imply he was being submissive to someone else(GOP). This has nothing to do with LGBTQ+ support. Sex toys don't belong to just them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

The skin is comprised of a laminated structure, an outer chemically milled skin(to reduce weight) and a "waffle" structure known tear straps. Yes there's rivets, but the structural strength is in that lamination between the waffle doubler.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wait till you learn that Boeing has used laminated (glued) skins on every 737 since the 80s. Glue can be fine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

The worst timeline indeed

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I hope this doesn't affect the aviation weather services, we are going to see even more crashes and near misses

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It's based on wifi over LoRa, called HaLow and Lora is pretty good at working in noisy environments. This is for connecting low bandwidth IOT sensors while maintaining an IP address based protocol for ease

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
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