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u/SpaceIsKindOfCool · 7 pointsr/MachinePorn

Anyone who thinks planes like the Blackbird are cool need to read Skunk Works by Ben Rich.

Ben Rich worked at the Skunk Works for decades (and was the president for 15 years) He worked on the U-2, SR-71, F-117A, and several other projects. He tells the stories of his entire career in his book and it's fantastic.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316743003/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

u/dziban303 · 1 pointr/MachinePorn

I actually came in this thread to recommend that book. I shouldn't be too surprised that WSPer /u/irishjihad beat me to the punch.

Richard Preston is a fantastic nonfiction author. I've liked all his books, from the Hale telescope in First Light to enormous redwoods in The Wild Trees, and of course what's probably his biggest commercial success, The Hot Zone.

u/bab5871 · 3 pointsr/MachinePorn

It's an OK placement. You really want the BOV as close to the throttle body as possible... this gives the fastest release of the pressure from the system.

For anyone interested... there's a great book called Maximum Boost on designing and building turbo systems... LOTS of good information in there.

u/Asmallfly · 2 pointsr/MachinePorn

Thanks for this! The turbo-compound Allison was a beastly machine. One of my favorite machineporn subjects. By that point jet technology was eclipsing the high performance piston engine in aviation, and it didn't make it out of the prototype stage as you said. Wright implemented a turbo-compound setup with some of their post war 3350 radials that served well, and continue to serve. An aerial firefighting outfit out of Greybull, Wyoming still flies turbo-compound 3350s in some of their firefighting planes.

Advanced high performance aviation piston engines and their systems are fascinating machines.

You probably already know this, but 2 great books any gear head should own are:

Vees for Victory: The Story of the Allison V-1710 Aircraft Engine 1929-1948

and

R-4360: Pratt & Whitney's Major Miracle

Both books are meticulously researched and will melt your brain if you read them for too long. (in a good way)

u/shott85 · 2 pointsr/MachinePorn

Thanks for sharing OP. I'm in middle of The Winter Fortress, a non-fiction book about exactly what you said. Very cool to see a picture of the real thing!

u/[deleted] · 5 pointsr/MachinePorn

There's a great book I read years ago about the Mt Palomar scope - I think it's this one. They overcame a huge number of problems to build it - it's well worth a read. When you consider the size of the thing coupled with the tiny tolerances they had to build it within - it's a really incredible that they pulled it off so successfully.

u/hansmoman · 24 pointsr/MachinePorn

The false positives can be problem and the cartridges are somewhat expensive. I've seen a few guys trade them back for regular saws. When the patent expires maybe the prices will come down a bit, because it is a pretty nice tool.

u/GillicuttyMcAnus · 1 pointr/MachinePorn

In case anyone is wondering, it's a Rumpler Taube "Dove"

From "Flight- the complete history" page 71 (excellent book by the way, if you like aviation you should definitely buy this book)

> Instantly recognizable by its swept, bird-like wings, which warped for flight control, the Austrian Taube (dove) had its roots in the Etrich-Wels glider of 1907. Manufacture was initially licensed to Rumpler, and the design is generally associated with that company; although it's initial success as a reconnaissance platform in the early days of the war led it to be being built by Albatross, Gotha, and DFW.

> 100 HP Mercedes engine, 6-cylinder liquid-cooled
> 47ft wingspan, 32ft length
> Two seater with a top speed of 60mph

u/Chrusciki · 1 pointr/MachinePorn

its that good? I just dont have the time right now to sit down and read a book, classes are kicking my ass.

you should check out this book. i sense you would enjoy it allot. i have given this around to so many people because of how good it is.

u/driftingphotog · 1 pointr/MachinePorn

Ben Rich's book Skunk Works is also a good read.

u/tiag0 · 6 pointsr/MachinePorn

And the Nav system is still a pretty cool piece of tech if you consider the technical limitations of the time and that it was made in a world before GPS: The bloody thing basically locked onto the stars and navigated using them as a reference and it was VERY precise (precise enough to keep this bird on it's target, considering small deviations in course result in a BIG distance traveled during sustained Mach 3+ flight).

If you haven't done so, you MUST read Skunkworks

u/MEatRHIT · 8 pointsr/MachinePorn

The brake is $65 and most of the time you'll want to replace the blade as well which is going to be anywhere from 50 to 150.

u/FoodBeerBikesMusic · 2 pointsr/MachinePorn

Cool! I just finished reading this about a month ago, so this is particularly relevant for me. (And there were no pictures of it in the book).

u/windblast · 5 pointsr/MachinePorn

Did a quick Google hunt, seems you can get a 10" SawStop cartridge as cheap as $70 on Amazon, but the specialty ones seem to be slightly more expensive.

u/DdCno1 · 11 pointsr/MachinePorn

Unlike what the submitter claimed in the title, it's actually 2560x1594 pixels, which isn't a lot, but enough to print on a poster.

It's from this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Sopwith-Camel-1916-1920-Owners-Workshop/dp/0857337955

Here's a slightly less compressed link:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A1hJG5JDBtL.jpg

And here's a higher res drawing of another WW1 British biplane from the same illustrator:

https://d32ptomnhiuevv.cloudfront.net/en-gb/sites/default/files/product_jackets/Haynes-H5846-page-4.jpg

u/weirdal1968 · 1 pointr/MachinePorn

Do you have a copy of this book http://www.amazon.com/Steam-Railroads-Electrified-Revised-Edition/dp/0253339790

For US electric railway fans its practically a bible. Had my copy of the first edition signed by Middleton himself at a convention years ago.

u/danopia · 10 pointsr/MachinePorn

Consumer HDDs easily reach 8TB these days. Even in 2.5" form factor, here's a 5TB going for $181

Going by this link from the other comments a 10MB 1960 HDD costed nearly $36,000

Insanity

u/vonHindenburg · 6 pointsr/MachinePorn

I’d highly recommend Robert Massie’s Castles of Steel for an excellent overview of the naval conflict of WWI. He goes into great detail about the ramifications of the submarine campaign and how it ultimately pulled America into the war.


Previous to WWI, commerce raiding was done by well-armed ships which would force a merchantman to stop, board, determine its nationality, pull off the crew, and then scuttle the ship. Initially, submarines attempted to follow this model. Unfortunately, they had no space or crew to detain potentially hostile passengers and enemy crews. Furthermore, they were extremely fragile things and, once the British began using Q ships (merchantmen with naval crews and hidden guns), the Germans could no longer risk surfacing and engaging with gunfire.


These factors, compounded with the problem of identifying a ship’s (possibly fake) flag from a dim periscope a few feet above the waves lead the Germans to declare the entire North Sea a battle zone in which any ship of any nationality might be fired upon. It was this factor, which America saw as an unjust abrogation of its rights as a neutral, combined with the loss of American lives and ships from the submarine campaign that drew the nation into the war.