Airplanes – inspiration – local clubs
January 6, 2023
http://www.mascotnq.com http://www.athertonaeroclub.org/ https://www.nqac.com.au/
Airplanes – inspiration – eVTOL
January 6, 2023
eVTOLS struggle with payload and range. Horizontal flight (range) requires wings.
Airplanes – inspiration – Burt Rutan – Velocity
January 6, 2023
LongEZ https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=longez Quickie taildragger – wide landing gear tail dragger https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=quickie+rutan Beechcraft Starship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_Starship Velosity six seater by Velocity scoop underneath augmented exhaust tube (forced air intake) rearview camera Cozy MkIV https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cozy+mkiv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusher_configuration#Disadvantages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusher_configuration#Advantages + reduced engine noise Sad but inspiring https://www.youtube.com/@RaptorAircraft/videos https://www.youtube.com/@rv6ejguy/videos
AoC 2022 Advent of Code (Python)
December 31, 2022
Advent of Code (AoC) is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. Go check it out: Advent of Code Input files: adventofcode2022inputs.zip 2022 Day 25 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 […]
Programming wisdom
December 9, 2022
From ACM’s SIGPLAN publication, (September, 1982), Article “Epigrams in Programming”, by Alan J. Perlis of Yale University. One man’s constant is another man’s variable. Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process. Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. Every program is a part of some other […]