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  1. Dan Thomas

    Hinge Materials and Processes

    Brass is poor bearing material. Bronze is what you want. Big difference between the two. I machined a lot of C93200 bronze into bushings and bearings in the 1980s.
  2. Dan Thomas

    Development of Unobtainium

    MIT Engineers Create the “Impossible” – New Material That Is Stronger Than Steel and As Light as Plastic Excerpt: The researchers found that the new material’s elastic modulus — a measure of how much force it takes to deform a material — is between four and six times greater than that of...
  3. Dan Thomas

    Flight Training, Flight Safety.

    Of all the world's people, you are in the most likely group to be able to fly someday. It's not cheap, and most of the rest of the world can only dream about it.
  4. Dan Thomas

    Another New Jet

    By a guy that just went ahead and quietly did it without bragging all over the place first: Aviation Outsider Builds Supersonic Jet for Transatlantic Flight An error in the article's first sentence: For the first time, an independent company has built a supersonic jet... Remember Jim Bede? He...
  5. Dan Thomas

    Canadian aviation history

    I'm an old Canuck and somehow missed this thing.
  6. Dan Thomas

    A little bit of history

    10 failed car inventions we need to revive right now | Driving
  7. Dan Thomas

    The FAA's take on the ten most common causes of accidents

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr6iLRIN234 Dan
  8. Dan Thomas

    Back to basics. With retractable gear, too!

    http://vimeo.com/39325401 Dan
  9. Dan Thomas

    The view from an eagle

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HZbSWtzyEs Great shot. Sure hope it's not a fake. Looks real enough to me. Dan
  10. Dan Thomas

    Flying Cars: A History

    An A-Z of flying cars starting in 1917 - The history of the flying carEditor's Picks - Autos - MSN CA An interesting slideshow of some of the numerous attempts to create a flying car. Included are some recent vaporware designs that that do things like ..."fly at high altitudes and high speeds...
  11. Dan Thomas

    How to build an airplane

    Seen on the Pilots of America forum: Dan
  12. Dan Thomas

    Why we still use old engine technology

    Interesting article about why we don't see lots of new aircraft engines: New Engines Dan
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