That’s a joke.
FORTRAN is unique AFAIK in that it had no constants. You could assign new
values to strings like “42” = 327. This leads to horrifying bugs, as you might
imagine. The person writing the documentation probably didn’t approve of this
misfeature.
--
Doug Weathers
(Aero engineer speaking up here)
It's the thrust that makes the lift.
The function of the wings and the flaps are to take some portion of the air
being blown across the wings (either directly by a propellor or jet engine, or
indirectly by the forward motion of the airplane), and turn that flow
Thanks, Bruce. Yup, that's my car.
I was going to post it on the EV Tradin' Post, but hadn't considered putting it
on the EV Album since I never finished it. Good idea, though.
Next it's off to the garage to inventory the parts and take a bunch of pictures.
> On Aug 25, 2018, at 12:51 PM,
Hi all,
Here's the reason I've rejoined the EV list after my long absence.
This is a sad message, but I need to lighten my load of one EV conversion
that's been "nearly done" for about 10 years. We're moving to the Seattle area
and it's uncertain how much room I'll have to work on it. Plus I
(Hi everyone, I'm back to the EVDL after some years away. More on that later.)
That wasn't a Powerwheels, it was something else.
The CBS News page that Bruce linked to says it was a "SPORTrax Awesome XL" and
it cost $500.
Here's an Amazon page, which appears to match the vehicle in the video:
