Interesting Aerodynamic Cars (Mike Vetter's ETV, also Avion)

[kach22i]

Wow, that has character.

I'm trying to understand the aft gap above the occupants headrests on the roof.

Open to the elements?

Not for rear view mirror, it's centered.

Cabin ventilation vent?

[Logic]

Gordon Murray Automotive T.50


Impact of a vehicle exhaust pipe position on the lift and drag coefficients: 2D and 3D simulations -

[freebeard]

Logic -- The ScienceDirect link errs (at this time in this location).

Originally Posted by kach22i

I'm trying to understand the aft gap above the occupants headrests on the roof.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...agnum-one-off/

If the bubbles were complete, with that piano hinge location, they would interfere with the roof. But note the cracks around the hinge and the outer wings. Not first-class fiberglass work, but he went on to get a PhD in 1974 and started a string of 30 sci-fi novels beginning in the 1980s.

[Logic]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Logic -- The ScienceDirect link errs (at this time in this location)

Strange. It works for me. Goes to here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...6620272300040X

It's discussed on the forum here:
https://ecomodder.com/forum/showthre...ift-41537.html

[freebeard]

I tried again, same result. I searched on the title and got the link, same result.

The Raspberry Pi doesn't have a real-time clock, and it had drifted 1/2 hour. Fixed that and same result.

The page gives a reference number but no error code (404,505).

???

[Logic]

Originally Posted by freebeard

I tried again, same result. I searched on the title and got the link, same result.

The Raspberry Pi doesn't have a real-time clock, and it had drifted 1/2 hour. Fixed that and same result.

The page gives a reference number but no error code (404,505).

???

Strange.

Are the links from here (this forum thread) working?

Assuming you are not running Pi-Hole (recommended) or similar:
At a guess; your ISP has (mistakenly?) flagged/blocked the main URL.
ISPs blocking URLs for various reasons, including ...er... various financial incentives is far more common than most realize.

A test would be using a system using a different ISP. As in; ask a friend using the same/different ISP if they can reach the URL.

The various tools on eg: IPVoid may shed some light on the issue.

Anyone else having issues?

[freebeard]

They provide this:

There was a problem providing the content you requested
Please contact our support team for more information and provide the details below.

Reference number: 938e4a5e5e3ddf13
IP Address: 63.155.**.**
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS aarch64 13597.84.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.5845.102 Safari/537.36
Timestamp: 2025-05-01 09:33:37 UTC

This is with Chromium. Firefox came preinstalled, but I'm disgusted with the Firefox developers.

I'm not going to lose sleep over one link.

[Logic]

Originally Posted by freebeard

They provide this:


This is with Chromium. Firefox came preinstalled, but I'm disgusted with the Firefox developers.

I'm not going to lose sleep over one link.

Here's a link to the PDF (download) that may work.

( so you're P'd off that FF defaults to the Google search engine?
Mine's running fine and uBlock Origin actually still works in FF, blocking Google's BS.
eg: A search for 'yellow' blocks 57 instances of Google's ads etc (so far!), including:
csp.withgoogle.com
doubleclick.net
googleadservices.co
youtube.com

Alternately, the Brave Browser is worth a look. (apparently. From a good Netw Admin source)

[freebeard]

Problem persists.

Antipathy toward Facebook goes back to when it was a means of rating college girls and Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace and everybody 'lemming'ed right over.

I checked, Brave will install in the Terminal; but Chromium doesn't do ads, either. I think it's got uBlock Origin under the hood.

[freebeard]

1980 Subaru X-100 Gyronaut: This Car Drove 100 Miles on ONE Gallon of Gas?!

The things I found interesting

1. Subaru sponsorship and engineers.
2. it's a belly tanker!
3. Sweet BRAT tow truck at 1:03.