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God-Emperor
Guilt by association.Yep.
I saw that coming.
What is the world coming to these days.
Guilt by association.Yep.
I saw that coming.
"Hey Ridley! Got any Beeman's?"75 years ago today (14 October):
Chuck Yaeger, who had the real "right stuff", became the first human to travel faster than the speed of sound.
There was also the problem of 'compressibility' that was experienced by the P-38 and the P-47 during power dives that caused flight control freeze up and airframe failures. As I recall a few pilots lost their lives before it was fully understood what was happening. I don't recall if the P-51 had that issue or not.The claim that some planes like the P-51 Mustang and the Me-262 broke the sound barrier in dives id disputed. The instruments on those aircraft could not give accurate readings at those speeds and test done with the P-51 showed severe damage from vibration at speeds above Mack 0.85.
The point is, Mach 1 was not by definition a destructive barrier, and such was known , since the V2 rocket routinely reached speeds of 3x the speed of sound. The issue for the designers of the Bell X1, was to make it possible for an airfame. and overcome the forces on he wings and the control surfaces.The claim that some planes like the P-51 Mustang and the Me-262 broke the sound barrier in dives id disputed. The instruments on those aircraft could not give accurate readings at those speeds and test done with the P-51 showed severe damage from vibration at speeds above Mack 0.85.
True! Mach 1 at sea level corresponds to a faster speed than on, say, 30000 feet.Doesn't 'the speed of sound' vary with altitude and weather conditions?
I was too young to recall anything of it, but elder people have always told how everybody was seized by the tension and the fear for a nuclear conflict breaking out.'... a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated...'
Sixty years ago today, on 22 October 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis burst into the open with John F. Kennedy's TV address.
I grew up and lived a good part of my life during the cold war. I remember the Cuban missile crisis quite well, and it was truly frightening. It wasn't blowing smoke, or saber rattling at all. It was real and literally fingers were on the buttons. I doubt if very many people made any plans for the future during those 13 days.I was too young to recall anything of it, but elder people have always told how everybody was seized by the tension and the fear for a nuclear conflict breaking out.
On this side of the pond, surrounded as we were with American air bases, we re-read our "What to do if the 4-minute warning sounds" pamphlet. Also 14, I picked out the girl I would like to spend my last four minutes with. But it never happened (thank goodness for the world, hard luck for me).I grew up and lived a good part of my life during the cold war. I remember the Cuban missile crisis quite well, and it was truly frightening. It wasn't blowing smoke, or saber rattling at all. It was real and literally fingers were on the buttons. I doubt if very many people made any plans for the future during those 13 days.
I was 14 at the time, and I still recall it vividly.
Sorry you missed your chance at true bliss, but under the circumstances, it worked out for the best.On this side of the pond, surrounded as we were with American air bases, we re-read our "What to do if the 4-minute warning sounds" pamphlet. Also 14, I picked out the girl I would like to spend my last four minutes with. But it never happened (thank goodness for the world, hard luck for me).
The calendar notation of the Era Fascista (E.F.) is still preserved on monuments in Italy, and in areas controlled by Italy between the wars. E.g.in the Palace of the Grandmaster of the Knights of Rhodes, in Rhodes City, which was restored under Fascist rule.It was the first day of the Fascist Era.
Same thing with Italian books -- they were double-dated. For example, Stilicone by Santo Mazzarino bears the date '1942-XX'. Must be one of the last quality books to do so -- not sure whether the Republic of Salò bothered with the EF dating, but it really wasn't the best of places for Italian writers and publishers.The calendar notation of the Era Fascista (E.F.) is still preserved on monuments in Italy, and in areas controlled by Italy between the wars. E.g.in the Palace of the Grandmaster of the Knights of Rhodes, in Rhodes City, which was restored under Fascist rule.
The device wasn't really a "bomb". Code named "Ivy Mike", it weighed 74 metric tons, required that the deuterium fuel be kept at near absolute zero and filled a two story building.Seventy years ago, on November 1st 1952 (or October 31, according to the time zone), the US tested the first hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok Island in the Bikine Atoll.