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10-02-2007, 11:12 AM | #23 | |
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However, this is a poor analogy to a car. In fact a good race car requires superb stabalitity, dragsters excluded. Your family minivan is less stable on the road than, for example, a williams F1 race car. Jason
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10-02-2007, 08:58 PM | #24 | ||
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If I had used the term "tossability" instead of maneuverability when quoting my son, that would have been more fitting to what I was trying to convey, but unfortunately he didn't use that term. Of course, tossability is not the same as maneuverablity, but it's close. Getting the car to easily rotate in a corner (if you want it to) is a definite trait of both maneuverability and tossability. OK, that's just about enough hair-splitting on my part. Bruce PS - Dragsters are designed from the ground up with stability in mind. It's just that they've been assigned a task that nearly guarantees instability. |
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10-02-2007, 10:27 PM | #25 | |
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What does your son fly?
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He is currently qualled on F18s and F5s - and as you may know it's a job to stay qualled on two machines. He flies Adversary, meaning red stars on the tails of the aircraft, and on the helmets. They teach other squadrons how the bad guys do it. Currently a full Commander with 225 traps, and operations officer for the 20th Air Group (six squadrons). Six months in the Gulf and "over the beach", as they call it.
Won't give me a ride, though. He has some weak excuse about Navy regulations. My explanation that I'm a taxpayer and helped pay for his rides doesn't seem to get through. Just once, I'd like to launch off a Carrier and land back on one. Not in an F5, though. Bruce |
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10-04-2007, 10:17 PM | #27 |
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Hmmm....that steering wheel looks kinda thick. I wonder how much thicker the M3's is, if any.
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