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Large BGE. OONI 16, TOTO Washlet S550e (Now with enhanced Motherly Hugs!)
"If I wanted my balls washed, I'd go to the golf course!"
Dennis - Austin,TX
Thiokol set up one of their cameras to video the ignition front thru a space shuttle booster (Reusable Solid Rocket Motor, or RSRM). The RSRM has a hollow center running from top to bottom (with very precise fins built into the propellant which controls the propellant burn) and is actually ignited at the top, not the bottom as you’d expect. The ignition front starts at the top of the rocket and spreads to the bottom, but it doesn’t burn slowly downward as, say, a fireworks fuse; its a violent explosion and the whole length of the rocket is burning within microseconds, from the center.
The Corbin camera was mounted off to the side of the nozzle, with a mirror mounted at 45˚ under the nozzle so the camera could “look up” the hollow tube in the engine, without being directly in the exhaust plume; didn’t matter, I was told just the acoustic energy of the exhaust, that close, shattered the expensive camera (the ignition front was recorded remotely (most of it), fortunately.
"There are no nepo babies in sports." - Bill Maher
Ogden, Utard
Shoot, not sure Cordin is even in business; their website doesn’t work well, the “Image Gallery” wouldn’t load for me; I was able to copy the above from the grenade video I’d seen, but couldn’t find the video itself.
EDIT:. Here’s a video of an RSRM test, at Thiokol; Loudest sound I’ve experienced in my lifetime.
https://youtu.be/8tThH5JlftE
"There are no nepo babies in sports." - Bill Maher
Ogden, Utard
"There are no nepo babies in sports." - Bill Maher
Ogden, Utard
"There are no nepo babies in sports." - Bill Maher
Ogden, Utard
"For the record, I took a critical thinking test once and did quite well." - Pete Prescott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFVVvVLMr-E
As a nature photographer I’ve always wanted to visit the Galapagos; not so sure now.
"There are no nepo babies in sports." - Bill Maher
Ogden, Utard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XHq1giiZak
"There are no nepo babies in sports." - Bill Maher
Ogden, Utard
"There are no nepo babies in sports." - Bill Maher
Ogden, Utard
At $92,000, this is reachable, but only a 20-minute battery life....
"There are no nepo babies in sports." - Bill Maher
Ogden, Utard
The 20-minute range will improve in time. I can see something like this being pretty useful to farmers.
"For the record, I took a critical thinking test once and did quite well." - Pete Prescott
"For the record, I took a critical thinking test once and did quite well." - Pete Prescott
Large BGE. OONI 16, TOTO Washlet S550e (Now with enhanced Motherly Hugs!)
"If I wanted my balls washed, I'd go to the golf course!"
Dennis - Austin,TX
I try to stick to interest-based forums now, its easier to tailor your responses.
"There are no nepo babies in sports." - Bill Maher
Ogden, Utard
"For the record, I took a critical thinking test once and did quite well." - Pete Prescott
I found the above really interesting as I started out college as an Aerospace Engineer, not Mechanical. The designer also worked on both MInuteman and B-1, as I have.
A couple things didn't make sense to me, though; he applied his work on torpedoes to aircraft, but a torpedo flies thru water (an incompressible fluid) and an aircraft flies thru air (compressible), and the drag physics are totally different. He also talked about laminar vs. turbulent flow, but I remember from my freshman year that sometimes turbulent is desirable; I may have to review my first-year text on aerodynamics.
I also had to chuckle about the brags that you can "walk into the plane upright", and "stand-up straight bathroom", with the 6'2" clearance; like your standard 737, that doesn't cut it for we properly-sized 6'5" hoomans.
Fun project.
"There are no nepo babies in sports." - Bill Maher
Ogden, Utard
But I'm guite sure either would be one he!! of a ride!
"There are no nepo babies in sports." - Bill Maher
Ogden, Utard
Large - Roswell rig, MiniMax-PS Woo; Cocoa, Fl.