Me in New Jersey on a diet:
Waitress: “Would you like to see the dessert menu? We have cheesecake today.”
Me: “No thank you.”
Waitress: “Our chef has been here for 50 years. He used to cook for Frank Sinatra, and the cheesecake was his favorite.”
Me: “Bring me the fuckin cheesecake.”
The Boeing 747-400 is the only Heavy
Widebody aircraft that can get up to 45,000 feet. No other aircraft can fly that high weighing this much, not even the newer 747-8 version.
📹: captainsilver747
The very end of JP7 fuel. The special fuel was made just for an SR-71.
The end of the program, the last drop of JP7
This very last fuel-burning event occurred on the evening of Thursday, Sept.12, 2002.
They were ordered to get rid of the rest of the JP7 SR 71 fuel, so it was agreed…. Let’s burn it.! To experience a J58 in full burner close-up and personal is hard to describe. Picture a gigantic blow torch, 40 inches in diameter, putting out a blue-yellow-orange flame over 50 feet long. Imagine standing 30 feet from this, feeling the vibration and heat.
You wear foam plugs and earmuffs. Afterward, your ears still ring because the sound is conducted through your body. The back half of the engine transforms from dull gray to bright orange, seemingly transparent.
The flame was a three-dimensional diamond-shaped shock pattern about every two feet. 💎💎💎
This flame is both frightening and beautiful, an amazing demonstration of perfectly controlled power.
And to think - this was done with 1950s technology
Tony Landis's photo
Ford CEO Jim Farley, in a new interview, says he realized Ford had been doing EVs all wrong after his team ripped apart a Tesla:
“When we ripped apart a Tesla, I was just absolutely flabbergasted. The Mach-E's wiring harness was 70 pounds heavier and 1.6 kilometers longer. We didn't know what was going on in [Tesla engineers' ] minds. But now we understand. They had no prejudice. We had prejudice. We'd gone to our supply-chain person and said, "Buy another wiring harness." [Tesla] said, "Let's design the vehicle for the lowest, smallest battery." Totally different approach.”
Robert Duvall, about as iconic of an actor as his generation produced, has passed away at age 95. To be in the Godfather movies, and Apocalypse Now alone sets him in elite status, & that doesn’t even cover his other iconic roles.
Always remembered, never forgotten.
RIP, legend
Metallica's performance of "Enter Sandman" at Virginia Tech Hokies' Lane Stadium received such a seismic response from the 65K strong crowd, it triggered a small earthquake!