Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 4]

[And then she]

vonuber said:

Frank7 said:

Oh please, promise me that you’re kidding,
let it be an urban myth, for Christ’s sake.

No different to the biker nod.

You can get a cream for that these days.

[V8mate]

Johnspex said:

How do I get pictures back on posts? I have not been able to get online in the last few days due to a lightning strike. In the meantime, but I don't know when or how my iPad has stopped showing photos that other posters put up but instead puts up the little blue box with a question mark in it. How do I change that, please. Words of one syllable please.

Fail.

[Johnspex]

V8mate said:

Johnspex said:

How do I get pictures back on posts? I have not been able to get online in the last few days due to a lightning strike. In the meantime, but I don't know when or how my iPad has stopped showing photos that other posters put up but instead puts up the little blue box with a question mark in it. How do I change that, please. Words of one syllable please.

Fail.

Thanks for your help.

[V8mate]

Johnspex said:

V8mate said:

Johnspex said:

How do I get pictures back on posts? I have not been able to get online in the last few days due to a lightning strike. In the meantime, but I don't know when or how my iPad has stopped showing photos that other posters put up but instead puts up the little blue box with a question mark in it. How do I change that, please. Words of one syllable please.

Fail.

Thanks for your help.

I would have put 'iPad fail' but that would have broken your syllable rule.

[Roofless Toothless]

Caterham owners certainly share a wave.



The problem arises when you are mid wave and grinning beatifically and you suddenly realise the other one's a Westfield.

[Lazadude]

Same as the Impreza wave.

[glenrobbo]

talksthetorque said:

I used to live amongst Salopians then Cestrians.
I’m not quite old enough to be from Roman times, but the names still persist for people from Shropshire and Cheshire.

I have lived in Cheshire for many years now, and never knew it was called Incestria!

[SpeckledJim]

Lazadude said:

Same as the Impreza wave.

That's jabbing a Lonsdale flip-flop out of the window innit?

[DocJock]

Oh God. Back in the late nineties, when the Impreza was not widely known, there was an utterly cringeable thread on ScoobyNet about how to wave 'properly' to another Impreza driver. I kid you not!.

[RizzoTheRat]

Roofless Toothless said:

Caterham owners certainly share a wave.



The problem arises when you are mid wave and grinning beatifically and you suddenly realise the other one's a Westfield.

Its the same for bikers when you suddenly realise it's a GS

[StevieBee]

Why do all in-flight magazine/catalogues feature sections containing 'spy-gear'; camera watches and pens, secret recording devices, etc? Are planes full of absent-minded secret agents?

[Shakermaker]

StevieBee said:

Why do all in-flight magazine/catalogues feature sections containing 'spy-gear'; camera watches and pens, secret recording devices, etc? Are planes full of absent-minded secret agents?

Sorry, I can't tell you that.

[captain_cynic]

StevieBee said:

Why do all in-flight magazine/catalogues feature sections containing 'spy-gear'; camera watches and pens, secret recording devices, etc? Are planes full of absent-minded secret agents?

Presumably because the back pages of MAD isn't generating as many orders as it used to.

[George Smiley]

Frank7 said:

glazbagun said:

Do Land Rover owners still flash their lights/wave at each other on the road?

Oh please, promise me that you’re kidding,
let it be an urban myth, for Christ’s sake.

Do in the mini, did in the Capri

[227bhp]

It depends on the age of the car, the older they are, the more hardcore or just plain nuts you will be hence more likely to wave to other nutters.

[Blib]

227bhp said:

It depends on the age of the car, the older they are, the more hardcore or just plain nuts you will be hence more likely to wave to other nutters.

I owned one of the very first BMW minis. For a few months we owners waved at each other. Then, it got a bit silly.



I flash (lights) at 964 owners and used to in the 4200, but I rarely encountered any in the wild.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

227bhp said:

It depends on the age of the car, the older they are, the more hardcore or just plain nuts you will be hence more likely to wave to other nutters.

Or rarity.

If you drive a rare car or marque, where it is fairly unlikely you will see another, owners are more likely to flash.

But, yes, it is much more likely to be an enthusiast thing. I see it as fairly harmless and a bit of fun, personally.

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Thursday 2nd May 13:08

[George Smiley]

In a modern mini my lights would wear out but when you see a fellow red grille stripe you wave

[Clockwork Cupcake]

I've owned several rare-ish and/or enthusiast cars over the years - Corrado VR6, Lotus Elan SE Turbo, and two TVRs, and the owners of those always flashed / waved at each other. If only to say "Hey! Yours hasn't broken down today either!"

[Fastchas]

Speed 3 said:

Shakermaker said:

wiggy001 said:

Wings on planes... is there an advantage to those where the wingtips curl up at the end? If so, why don't they all have that feature? And if not, why do some have it?

(Yes I am bored... albeit with a pint... at Belfast International...)

The advantage is that you can generate extra lift, and avoid some serious vortex issues.

They don't all need it as they are stable enough without it. And, some have it go up because if they went out any further they would have too wide a wingspan for certain airports/parking stands. They have to fit within a certain space which defines what size category they are, and going up a size would have serious ramifications

Not "stability" and "size" is normally denominated by weight or passenger count, not by footprint (although the new 777 has folding outer sections because of stand limitations). It's invariably to improve fuel consumption by reducing drag.

No doubt their effects were discovered by NASA or similar but they were popularised on large commercial aircraft by these guys who were eventually bought out by Boeing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_Partners_In...

Aircraft that don't have them can be because the fuel benefit is marginal at their operating range or they may be older versions of non-Boeing aircraft that were subject to the APB patent or don't have wing strength to take them. When Airbus resolved the patent issue and started to fit them to new A320 family aircraft, some existing aircraft that had already been delivered had wing strengthening that meant they could be retrofitted whilst the earlier ones couldn't. The earlier A320's had units known as wingtip fences (also found on other Airbus types such as the A380) rather than sharklets or winglets:



The first 21 built didn't have anything:

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Current "sharklet":

Taken from nature! I heard/read that the condors wings were looked at when designing the latest jetliners.