The P-39 Airacobra!
I did my senior thesis on that damned bird. I can hardly look at it, now! Wow. I modeled that thing millimeter by iterative millimeter in MATLAB. Fuck. Engine behind the pilot, driveshaft through the pilot's legs, 37-mm cannon through the middle of the prop hub.
Discovered before I read about it that it was statically unstable. Stall=flat spin in the simulator. That's what happens when the CG is that far back.
Fuck I hated that plane by the end of the semester!
I did my senior thesis on that damned bird. I can hardly look at it, now! Wow. I modeled that thing millimeter by iterative millimeter in MATLAB. Fuck. Engine behind the pilot, driveshaft through the pilot's legs, 37-mm cannon through the middle of the prop hub.
Discovered before I read about it that it was statically unstable. Stall=flat spin in the simulator. That's what happens when the CG is that far back.
Fuck I hated that plane by the end of the semester!
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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