I’ve been reading quite a lot about aircraft design and structures. Interesting contrast with rocketry. I’ve also been toying around with a few possible home designs and builds. I might write a more proper history / introduction of that someday.
The following is a very much simplified history of aircraft structures. By no means 100% correct, [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Aircraft Structure Woes
Posted in Homebuilt, Motivation, airplane, tagged aircraft structure, airplane, composite, de havilland, foam core, Homebuilt, ibis, junqua, ken rand, kit plane, kr-1, long-ez, mosquito, plywood, vampire, wood, zenith on Friday 2008.10.31 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes
Posted in Demotivation, ESA, Motivation, NASA, industry, tagged astronaut, kibo on Saturday 2008.10.18 | Leave a Comment »
…stuff like this makes me think it’d be cool to be an astronaut. But the 20 year waiting of on and off flight opportunities, constant staying away from your family, random accidents killing people, and the complete helplesness of the individual at the hands of a vast governmental organization just don’t [...]
Living on a Finite Size Planet
Posted in Architecture, Climate, Colonization, Demotivation, Global, Models, Motivation, industry, tagged FAO, fisheries, global decision making, libertarianism, optimization on Thursday 2008.10.09 | 4 Comments »
FAO published some numbers on fishing today:
Global marine catches have been stagnant for over a decade, hovering at around 85 million tons per year. Meanwhile fisheries productivity — measured in terms of catch per fisher, or per fishing vessel — has declined, even though fishing technology has advanced and fishing effort increased.
Naturally, with a global [...]
An Interesting Project
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday 2008.10.08 | Leave a Comment »
Somebody is building their own hybrid car and designing a motor themselves as well.
http://myownhybrid.wordpress.com/
Ridiculous Electric Vehicles
Posted in Architecture, Climate, Models, RLV:s, industry, tagged chrysler, ev, yak-15 on Wednesday 2008.10.01 | 2 Comments »
The state of the auto industry is quite sad. Take a look at these electric vehicles from Chrysler.
You won’t get far by picking a stupendously inefficient vehicle architecture (A SUV, Jeep or a big sports car) and sticking it full of batteries. Completely traditional construction.
What the heck are they thinking? Or are they thinking at [...]
