Ask – and ye shall receive……

It doesn’t sell any jet engines – but it sure attracted a crowd….:D

Ken

Well, they sell my engines!!

Did anybody get a picture of the chics in the adapted Robot arm at the stand of a Machine tool/ assembly company? Thysenkrupp I think it was.

As for Farnborough, to a spotter or an enthusiast IMO F/boro is the worst show to attend. Small flying displays and in general only the new stuff. It’s a sales pitch, so I guess if you want to see new stuff then it may be there and you may enjoy it…….but if you want to see an air “Show” then it has to be RIAT.

I remember the 1983 incident well but I’ve never heard of this one.

Very interesting story.

1L.

Likewise. The two deaths on that 707 must have been from schrapnel???, the fuse looked peppered, and one larger hole.

The successor to the Narrow body is on the Drawing board:confused: Catia screens now.
It will be plastic, following on from A350.

Wasn’t there a Korean 747 that was downed with total loss of life, later than 1978?

My, you use some cheap kit!

Coat, Door, Gone.

Every digital SLR you will ever use, and I mean every digital SLR fundamentally works in exactly the same way. The above is absolutely not the case!

Paul

Paul, that’s plain wrong.
If you mean that light passes through a lens and hits a CCD, then you’re right.
But, the CCD could be Fuji dual, Fovean capture or Bayer Mosaic. Each of these capture the RGB in a different way, giving different results. In addition to those three types, manufacturers have meddled with the mixture pattern of sensors eg a common Bayer pattern has twice as many green sensors than the red or blue. This particular checkerboard pattern of sensors only captures 50% of the green light that hits it and 25% of the red and blue. The pattern can be altered to give a non-even pattern which gives (say) a 60/20/20 or 40/30/30.
Also, size and quality of the sensors is important. The 8m pixel camera phone is going to have a tiny sensors, about 4 microns, a 8m pixel DSLR will have a larger CCD, the sensors will be 9 microns.
Further, each camera manufacturer writes S/w to deal with the light that has hit “Their” sensor and turn it into a code which we can then view as a picture.
Not all manufacturers have the same view as to how red should be treated for example.
Even further, the sensor is a pattern. If a similar pattern or clashing hori/vert lines are the actual subject matter, a Moire interference “Flash” will occur. So, the manufacturers design and fit the anti alias or the low-pass filter in front of the sensor. Again, each maker has a different opinion on how this filter should work…….but all of the anti alias filters soften the image and they are the prime reason why all digitally captured pictures need sharpening.

This is the current state-of-the-art fuel-cell car:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7456141.stm

I think people are confusing reality with the fiction of the ‘water engine’ which has spawned urban-myths, conspiracy theories, fraudulent claims and hoaxes in addition to being the basis for plays, a radio show and a fairly recent TV movie.

Yes, probably. But sometimes fiction becomes reality.

My water engine is steam, a small nuclear power plant boils it. There is a small flaw though……

Quick question….How many of you guys on here, who post such inspirational pics, have to crop their images to help it look good?

Steve

My pics are not inspirational in this league, but I always crop a picture. There is a limit of course, pixel related.