Why was the B-58 not a success?
Ah, Convair B-58 Hustler. I kinda love that plane The problem with B-58 is that it could only do one mission well. The Hustler would carry an external…
Why are ship engines so massive yet have so little horsepower?
You must be joking? Some of the container ships and cruise ships have engines ranging from 60000 -100000 hp. That’s a massive engine with a lot of horsepower….
Why isn’t it taught that George Washington was not the first President of the United States, but the first one under the Constitution?
Because George Washington was the First President of the United States.Prior to the creation of the Constitution, the position was not “The President of the United States.” The…
Why does the B-52 take off without rotating?
Virtually EVERY powered airplane built, at full takeoff power, at sea level, on a cold and dry day, with a long enough runway and with standard takeoff trim…
Does NASA refuse to use a Hubble telescope to take pictures of the Moon rovers left behind previously?
Jacob Fox is completely correct. The Hubble Space Telescope is not capable of taking pictures of the Apollo landing sites for 2 reasons: As several others have written, lunar…
Why do Typhoon-class submarines have swimming pools inside? Isn’t that a waste of space that could be used to store more food?
They’re not exactly swimming pools, as in you wouldn’t really swim, it’s just a pool where you can dip to cool off after sweating it out in the…
Why does the US Navy decommission relatively super-advanced ships like the USS Enterprise, when they cost a fortune to build and are still “up to date” considering how hard it is to sink one?
I served aboard two carriers on their last deployments, Enterprise being one of them, and those boats were worn out and past ready to be put to pasture. Enterprise was not “up…
Can submarines sail through the Straits of Gibraltar undetected?
We went through in 79 and 80 and as a Sonarman it was a mess. Single passive contacts turning into fishing fleets and back again. Tracking 100 contacts…
If SSDs are much better than HDDs, why are companies still improving the technologies in HDDs?
SSDs maybe much better than HDDs when it comes to access speeds, read/write speeds and I/Os per second but HDDs still have one area where they blow SSDs…
Why does Air Force One never leave a jet trail? Does it have some kind of secret engine?
On December 26, 2018, an amateur aviation photographer named Alan Meloy stepped out onto his front porch in Sheffield, England and looked up and saw some contrails, appearing…