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David the expat sez: "Stack Exchange Rocks!" so, let Stack Exchange be Stack Exchange.

My goal is to spend less time in my "...snow white cube containing only the bare necessities, a computer, and a large library of treatises, maps, and precise scale models*."

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What are these engineers doing sitting on a large format drawing of B-47s aircraft?
Sep 13, 2018
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If a balloon lies within gun range, why would a 21st century warplane shoot it with a missile, instead of rotary guns?
Feb 5, 2023
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How did NASA Langley end up with the first 737?
May 21, 2019
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Which aircraft had such a luxurious-looking navigator's station?
Mar 4, 2019
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What is it exactly about flying a Flyboard across the English channel that made Zapata's thighs burn?
Aug 4, 2019
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What aircraft was the Olmstead High Efficiency Propeller for? When and how was it used?
Mar 6, 2022
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Why a kite flying at 1000 feet in "figure-of-eight loops" serves to "multiply the pulling effect of the airflow" on the ship to which it is attached?
Jul 4, 2023
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Did the last US plane to leave Afghanistan have support from the control tower?
Aug 31, 2021
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How is the camera positioned for these plane-to-plane Schlieren images of shock waves?
Mar 7, 2019
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Was the runway upgrade at Mataveri Airport on Easter Island really related to the Lee Correy novel "Shuttle Down"?
Jun 1, 2018
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How did the Apollo computers evaluate transcendental functions like sine, arctangent, log?
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How much bigger could Earth be, before rockets wouldn't work?
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What makes (or at least made) Ada the language of choice for the ISS's safety-critical systems?
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Are there any satellites in geosynchronous but not geostationary orbits?
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If a massive object like Jupiter flew past the Earth how close would it need to come to pull people off of the surface?