2020 (MID-ENGINE!) CORVETTE PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE saw how a 1980 mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette nearly came to be. By the mid 1970s, the XP-882 had evolved into a production-ready fulfillment of chief engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov’s … Continue reading
2020 (MID-ENGINE!) CORVETTE PART 1
IF I HAD a nickel for each time R&T predicted a mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette…. gee, I could retire. Come to think of it, I got retired in 2012. And here … Continue reading
THE POWER OF GRAPHICS
GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS can be potent means of sharing information. As examples, I share here several graphics accompanying “Inside Football’s Campaign to Save the Game,” The New York Times, November 7, … Continue reading
STILL LUSCIOUS AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
“ONLY SIX years old,” R&T said in June 1969, “but indisputably a classic.” And for the Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso, all the more indisputable 50 years later. “The prototype … Continue reading
MAYHEW’S COMESTIBLES
HENRY MAYHEW WAS A social researcher of London’s mid-nineteenth century. His works were collected in 1851 in London Labour and the London Poor, describing the working class of this largest … Continue reading
BEV TIDBITS FROM AAAS
THE OCTOBER 25, 2019, ISSUE of Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has an article focusing on battery electric vehicles, BEVs, for short. “The Coming … Continue reading
UNGODLY GODS PART 2
THIS ALL STARTED with Maureen Dowd’s observations about the immutability of human nature. I claim that even the Greek gods are human, often exceedingly so. Today in Part 2 we … Continue reading
UNGODLY GODS PART 1
A SHAKESPEARE REFERENCE made by columnist Maureen Dowd got me researching the ungodliness of Greek gods. Here in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow are tidbits on Dowd’s observation … Continue reading
DEPERDUSSIN MONOCOQUE AEROPLANE PART 2
THIS CONTINUES yesterday’s look at the Deperdussin Monocoque racer, an aircraft that displayed technology far in advance of 1913, yet also a feature dating back to the 1903 Wright Flyer. … Continue reading
DEPERDUSSIN MONOCOQUE AEROPLANE PART 1
AN HISTORIC IMAGE encouraged my most recent GMax/Microsoft Flight Simulator aircraft project: I had seen other photographs of the French Deperdussin Monocoque, but a particularly stunning image shows crewmen trying … Continue reading
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