F100 Instruments

 "That which has been claimed without proof can also be refuted without proof." - Euclid

Nightmare fuel: F100 driver's side roll-up window

 "Good people do not need laws to tell them how to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around those laws." - Plato

Important Article

 

Just drawing some attention to this, because it seems to be accurate and truthful.  Something our modern media does not seem capable of being...

 What is wrong with the western political class?  Please follow the link.

https://gaiusbaltar.substack.com/p/what-is-wrong-with-the-western-political

Movie: Das Boot

 "If you want to be wrong, then follow the masses." - Socrates

Parts delivery

 "The most important relationship we can have is the one we have with ourselves.  The most important journey you can undertake is the one of self-discovery.  To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself.  You must not be afraid to be alone, because knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." - Aristotle

Power's out!

 "When you are born you get a ticket to the freak show.  When you're born in America, you get a front-row seat." - George Carlin

F100 quick update

 "Be a free thinker, and don't accept everything you hear as truth.  Be critical and evaluate what you believe in." - Aristotle

Aurora - finally

 

 

Unf*cking the truck

 "Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.  When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." - Laozi

1960 F100 - A new chapter dawns

 "While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with a hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A vacation, almost

"Falling down is not a failure.  Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen." - Socrates

Neutron Activation, N-16, and pools

"Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that is how all important discoveries have been made?" - Henri Poincare

Fuel Inspections and criticality alarms

 "We hang the petty thieves, but appoint the great ones to office." - Aesop

How Green is Germany, anyway?

 "Since every man dies, it is better to die with distinction than to live long." - Musonius Rufus

Top Fuel

 Below is a cool onboard video of a top fuel dragster through Start-up, burnout, and a run.  The car starts on gasoline, squirted in by the pit crew, then switches over to nitromethane - the exhaust gets cloudy at that point.

A few statistics about Top Fuel drag race cars:

• The fuel burn during the run alone is about 14 gallons (53 liters).
• 100 mph (161 kph) is reached in 0.8 seconds
• 300 mph (483 kph) is reached in just over 3 seconds - making these the fastest straight-line accelerating vehicles in existence.  Faster than rockets, faster than aircraft carrier catapults, and faster than jets on full afterburner. 
• The pushrod hemi engine is limited to 500 cubic inches (8.2 liters), and produces about 11,000 horsepower (8090 kw)  This value can only be calculated by the acceleration that the engine applies to the vehicle.  There is no engine dynamometer capable of measuring the engine's output.
• Boost is by roots supercharger at 60 psig (4.1 bar)
• At launch the driver experiences 4.5 g, which increases to 6 g mid-track as the clutch fully engages.  Fighter jets must maneuver in order for pilots to experience this level of g force - they cannot achieve it on engine acceleration.

Below:  A reaction video.  Supercharged nitro engine noise is pretty intense.  Every fiber of your body vibrates.