Small But Interesting Facts

[VCheng]

Just like the title says.

 

[VCheng]

KC135Rs with the CFM engines do not have thrust reversers.

 

[VCheng]

The SR-71 leaked fuel until it heated up enough at speed to seal up the fuel tank seams.

 

[RescueRanger]

The air filters on the British AS90 self-propelled guns melted in the Afghan heat.

 

[VCheng]

The Concorde grew longer by about 7 inches during flight due to friction heating. Gaps in the cockpit panels were designed to open up and then contract down.

 

[vsdoc]

The female hyena is the alpha of the pack, and the females are the dominant pack members, with the males being hugely subjugated, even killed and banished. It is the females that go head to head with the lions they harry. Not the males. And the lions hunt the matriarch. The females have fully developed ambiguous genitalia, with what looks like a fully formed penis, that is actually an overgrown clitoris.

Cheers, Doc

 

[RΛIDEN]

Whenever I come back home after a long day in office & throw my dirty clothes in the laundry basket, the next day they are magically found in my wardrobe - washed, ironed and folded.