mrreelmo

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   by mrreelmo 7y ago

   Most weight savings come from the bending relief due to the distribution of the load over the wing span instead of concentrating it all at the wing root (which is the case for a conventional design).
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   by mrreelmo 7y ago

   There is research done at a big American aircraft manufacturer which determined a limit on how far you could comfortably position passengers outboard. (I believe it was 13m). This airplane respects that limit, the outboard sections are us
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   by mrreelmo 8y ago

   I use Python for most of my general programming needs, but in an engineering environment MATLAB (unfortunately) still has an edge. As a programming language it’s quite sh*tty, but it’s strength is in the high quality toolboxes. I work quite
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   by mrreelmo 9y ago

   I really like this effort of creating an open 3D CAD environment. See here the release notes: https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Release_notes_0.17
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   by mrreelmo 9y ago

   Looking at the roadmap ( https://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Roadmap ) GTK3 or even 4 is planned for the 3.0 release.
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   by mrreelmo 10y ago

   An explanation by the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynRVnIh6wq4
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   Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe(arxiv.org)

   209 points by mrreelmo 10y ago|80 comments