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[ex-orbinaut]

What's the one that looks like a winged vehicle from?

An Orbiter add on.

 

[Frilock]

Went to local mall today and I saw this:

You totally just brought me back to 2004. (I was working for universal studios at the time)

 

[Urwumpe]

This one even looks nice without all the fancy modding:

 

[Fabri91]

I only saw to DMC 12s: one was at a museum in Germany, Sinsheim I believe, and one was...on a foggy beltway around Milan while heading south. :huh:

 

[Urwumpe]

I only saw to DMC 12s: one was at a museum in Germany, Sinsheim I believe, and one was...on a foggy beltway around Milan while heading south. :huh:

I know that feeling, somebody here is driving an old Oldsmobile 98 or similar. Feels really surreal among all those new tiny cars, even a big SUV looks small next to it.

In the car park where I often park for work stands an rather old car (~late 90s) that could look really beautiful, if the owner would not let it rot away there. It has never moved since I park there. But I fail to identify even the manufacturer of it, it is looking really worn. It looks somewhat French to me, like a modern brother of the Citroen SM. I should really take a picture of it.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Yes! Firing up the SR-30 jet engine for my lab next week! Fire and sweet, sweet jet noise!

It's going to piss off the humanities department faculty across the street, but whatever. They can go read in the library.

 

[Andy44]

This one even looks nice without all the fancy modding:

I never thought those cars were very good-looking, even for the 80s they looked like they were trying too hard. Didn't help that they were reportedly underpowered.

Every once in a while I still see one around at a show or a convention. There used to be a used car dealer not far from where I live who somehow got his hands of two of them and he used to display out front by the highway, one with the gullwing doors open.

They do certainly turn heads.

 

[Urwumpe]

Yes! Firing up the SR-30 jet engine for my lab next week! Fire and sweet, sweet jet noise!

Sounds like music to my ears. When are you going to add a reheater to it?

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Sounds like music to my ears. When are you going to add a reheater to it?

No reheater just yet, but one of the students will probably want to make that their design project. It's just a little demonstrator assembled by Turbine Technologies that I am using for my new lab course. Yves Rossy flies with these particular engines IIRC. But it winds up to about 90,000 rpm and you can hear it all through the building. And they will. Oh yes, they will hear it. Mwah ha ha!

We have a turbine lab with an LM2500 in it, unfortunately only static display. I miss the smell of JP-8 burning in the morning. It smells like...awesome!

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Yes! Firing up the SR-30 jet engine for my lab next week! Fire and sweet, sweet jet noise!

It's going to piss off the humanities department faculty across the street, but whatever. They can go read in the library.

Nice... but I prefer the Allison 250 my former A&P program used.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Nice... but I prefer the Allison 250 my former A&P program used.

Way to make a fellow Orbiteer feel inadequate.

If I had my way I'd defenestrate my lab building in a heartbeat, in the name of education of course. I firmly believe that burning off one's eyebrows should be a rite of passage for any self-respecting engineer.

---------- Post added at 08:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:12 PM ----------

The 90's called...they want their party back..

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Way to make a fellow Orbiteer feel inadequate.

Sorry.

I firmly believe that burning off one's eyebrows should be a rite of passage for any self-respecting engineer.

Agreed.

 

[ISProgram]

APAS-esque docking system (still missing the hydraulic actuators, not looking forward to modeling them).
Modeling gets strenuous after a while, this has taken over 6+ months and 20 different designs before it got to the point of actually looking decent.​

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Sorry.

Let me burn my eyebrows off with your Allison 250 and all is forgiven

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Let me burn my eyebrows off with your Allison 250 and all is forgiven

Quite easy if you don't remember to energize the ignition circuit before hitting the starter! :lol:

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Quite easy if you don't remember to energize the ignition circuit before hitting the starter! :lol:

Too easy. It's supposed to work like this:

"Hmmm.,,,that's funny..."

*WOOOSH*!!!

"Hey...where did my eyebrows go? And why is my shadow burned into the wall like that?"

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Well, that was almost what I heard from the senior classmate that was trying to start ol' Smokey. "Why's it making so much smoke, and why isn't N1 rising like it's supposed to?"
Teammate: quietly reaches over and toggles the ignition circuit switch.
FOOOMPHeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
"Oh."

 

[Fabri91]

I know that feeling, somebody here is driving an old Oldsmobile 98 or similar. Feels really surreal among all those new tiny cars, even a big SUV looks small next to it.

In the car park where I often park for work stands an rather old car (~late 90s) that could look really beautiful, if the owner would not let it rot away there. It has never moved since I park there. But I fail to identify even the manufacturer of it, it is looking really worn. It looks somewhat French to me, like a modern brother of the Citroen SM. I should really take a picture of it.

Something similar happened to me: some time ago, for about two-three years I'd see this unidentified classic car (late 1960s mid-size sedan) more or less everyday while driving to the station. Finally one summer I took a walk to its location, thinking it to be an American car that I'd never heard of, but in the end it turned out to be...a Soviet Volga M24:

Album (3 pictures)

Wikipedia article

 

[Loru]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Volga

 

[Urwumpe]

The new season of Homeland, that was produced in Berlin, got some really sneaking criticism into it without the film crew really noticing it. They wanted to build a lebanese refugee camp and tasked some local Arabian graffiti artists to decorate them with Arabian graffiti...

Now, you can enjoy real Arabian graffiti in TV:

"Homeland is fake"
"Homeland is a joke and we are not laughing"
"Homeland is no serial"
"We have not defended ourselves, so we got conquered by somebody riding a donkey" (Means: Don't be surprised, if you are not fighting back.)
"Homeland is racist"
"Freedom. Now in 3D"
"There is no homeland"
"#blacklivesmatter"

I can really understand it... Homeland paints the darkest 1980s-republican version of the Arabians, which is extremely far from truth. (But the political implications of homeland would be even too harsh for the basement)

Source: http://www.bento.de/tv/homeland-hacker-graffiti-in-arabisch-kritisiert-serie-53222/