Not Your Standard Cruise Control
Your car probably has some form of cruise control in it – some way of automatically maintaining your Toyota’s speed as you race down the roadway.
NASA’s X-59 QueSST airplane has taken the concept of cruise control to a whole new level. And by level, we mean startlingly high numbers.
A Three-Body Problem Solved
If you have watched the Netflix series, or read the trilogy by Chichin Liu, you’ll know that the Three Body Problem is an impossible challenge. The San-Ti, or Trisolarans, live on a planet caught in a trinary system – three suns!
The Joe Davies Memorial Air Park
Although the open-air museum is free, it’s jam-packed with a priceless collection of beautiful and important airplanes.
To get in, you have to walk right down the maw of a huge jet-engine intake. It’s cool, because it’s actually two intake fairings mounted back-to-back.
Once inside, you’ll be amazed at the sheer number, and quality, of the planes on display.
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How to Fix a GE Washing Machine Pump
You’re washing your swimsuits in your newer top-loading GE washing machine – the kind that senses the size of the load for you. It washes and washes, but then, when it comes time to rinse and spin, it just stops. It looks like it’s running, but it’s not doing a darned thing. That’s because it’s waiting for the drain pump.
There’s a good chance that the drain pump is merely stuck. You can unstick yourself and get back in business in about ten minutes.
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Blackbeard’s Three Mysteries
If you Google the name Blackbeard, everything you read will start with something like “Blackbeard was the most famous pirate…”
May, may, may. There is so much to figure out about this particular felon.
One thing we do know about him is only a surmisal, but has to be true: he was certainly charismatic.
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Make a Simple Yard
In my reworking of the Atlantis Black Falcon plastic model sailing ship kit, I opted to eject the strange, lumpy plastic yards.
The first question I encountered was a critical one: from what do you make the yards? That’s a big question.
The lower yards for the Black Falcon came from the smallest dowel I could find –
The Estrella Warbirds Museum
Estrella’s massive collection of mostly Vietnam-era fighter jets and helicopters is augmented by their huge cache of military transport vehicles, even a great M60A-1 Patton tank!
John D Reinhart 