Remember when Sony audio CDs came with a rootkit, and then the 'uninstaller' they distributed had even more malware?
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No that's not me, my chin and jaw aren't that majestic
Of course, takeoff and climb are typically at full power but to reach cruising altitudes for a single engine airplane doesn't take very long. It's a similar concept to a car on a highway onramp, except that airplanes actually get more efficient at higher altitudes.
It factors into overall consumption but it doesn't really blow the whole equation for efficiency. Pilots in training do takeoffs and landings on repeat for hours at a stretch between refueling.
A Rutan Long EZ running autogas has a better environmental footprint than a Prius and is more than twice as fast
"FAA approved STCs for the use of G100UL in all general aviation piston airplanes in September 2022"
https://www.avweb.com/ownership/fuel-news/gami-begins-g100ul-stc-sales/
God that is so fucking glorious
Further clarification: Only gasoline powered aircraft without the Auto Fuel STC require leaded fuel.
Although, there is an initiative underway to fully phase out leaded avgas. G100UL is the FAA approved formulation. Exciting time and long overdue.
Would be super impressed if a C130 didn't end up in the cornfield on t/o
anyone born after 2008 can't cook... all they know is mcdonald's , charge they phone, play Roblox, eat hot chip & die
In the coming decade, China will dominate technology because it has focused intensively on the important partnership between the public and private sectors with stunning results.
It's the "partnership between the public and private sectors" in particular that lost consumer and foreign government trust in technology originating from China.
How is China going to "dominate" anything when it's spent the last 20+ years shamelessly ripping off R&D through reverse-engineering and corporate espionage? What can it even claim of its own as true innovation?
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