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May 24th, 2017 at 7:57:45 AM permalink
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545	From the "obscure historical facts" file: The FBI was founded in July 26, 1908, originally as the Bureau of Investigation, by Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte, who was the great-nephew of Napoleon I, Emperor of France. Mind Blown. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER

May 24th, 2017 at 9:27:06 AM permalink

Fleastiff

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The Osage Murders involving oil-rich Indians came under Federal jurisdiction because one corpses fell with its arm extending four inches into an Indian Reservation. Originally forbidden to carry arms it was a sleepy little jerkwater agency until Attorney General Palmer appointed his favorite agent J. Edgar Hoover to the helm due to Hoover's penchant for seeing Socialists and Syndicalists everywhere.

See David Grann Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.

June 21st, 2017 at 3:18:35 PM permalink
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545	From the "obscure technological facts" file: Jet engines are at more efficient and deliver more thrust at sea level than at cruising altitude. Mind Blown. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER

June 21st, 2017 at 4:38:07 PM permalink
Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687	Quote: Nareed From the "obscure technological facts" file: Jet engines are at more efficient and deliver more thrust at sea level than at cruising altitude. Mind Blown. Why did that surprise you? "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan

June 21st, 2017 at 7:41:58 PM permalink

DRich

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Quote: Nareed
From the "obscure technological facts" file:

Jet engines are at more efficient and deliver more thrust at sea level than at cruising altitude.

Mind Blown.

Although i didn't know that it seems to make sense as there is more oxygen to burn. I assume planes are more efficient at altitude because the air is thinner and causes less drag.

At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent.

June 21st, 2017 at 8:55:12 PM permalink

rxwine

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Speaking of mind blown stuff, I remember enjoying reading about the experiences of the first pilots of the SR71. So looked it up to see if it was on the web.

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Flying the world's fastest plane: Behind the stick of the SR-71

SH: So you couldn't even fly into the base?

RM: No, only the planes stationed there could--the SR-71, the KC-135 refueling planes, etc. I got up there on a Saturday, and caught up with them a little bit, and then they said, "Well, let's go look at the bird." They were all in small hangars, all closed. We unlocked the back doors, turned on the lights, and I thought "Oh lord, there's a spaceship."

SH: And that was the first time you saw it?

RM: I'd never seen the airplane before, so it was just awe-inspiring.

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They had this special chemical ignition they stored in a little fuel tank the size of a grapefruit that has this wicked chemical in it, triethylborane. It explodes when it comes into contact with oxygen. The way you get this engine going--because it was so massive-- was this special starting thing with two 454 cubic inch V8s and a gear drive that they would just jack up into the bottom of the airplane. And when you said go, they'd redline those Buicks and the big motor would start to turn over. You'd advance the throttle, give it the gas, and at a certain RPM you'd click the throttle over and it would let in this triethyborane that lit the fuel. It shot a big green flame out about 50 feet behind the airplane.

https://www.sbnation.com/2014/3/7/5447310/sr-71-blackbird-pilot-interview

You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?

June 22nd, 2017 at 6:46:15 AM permalink
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545	Quote: Dalex64 Why did that surprise you? Because anywhere between 90% and 99% of the time, these engines are operating at high altitude, at their most inefficient. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER