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Another excellent chapter!
Though I am saddened by the lack of shipping in this chapter, ESPECIALLY given the chapter title!
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This chapter has all manner of cargo being loaded.
Oh god, that title ^^;;;
How can you make fluffy romance in such a dark story!? MAKE MORE.
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How much more shipping do you want? They're on a cargo ship, for crying out loud!
Srsly, though, I love the fluff. It tells me real healing and growth is taking place.
The first time I encountered coal dust fired turbines in fiction was in Harry Harrison's novel, A Transatlantic Tunnel Hurrah! They had blown wings, multiple decks, engine rooms, and functioned more like flying ocean liners than modern airliners.
As someone who does engineering development testing on aircraft systems and who is just about to board an aircraft that I know entirely too much about the fuel gauging system and thrust reversers, Dim has my sympathy!
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Please tell me more about you gave systems in Trust vs(damn voice to text)
Please tell me more about fuel gauge systems and thrust reversers
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The B777 is fitted with an ultrasonic fuel measurement system. Basically there are a number of tubes in the fuel tank with transducers at the bottom which measure the time between the measurement signal being transmitted and the time that it takes to return to the transceiver after being reflected off the surface of the fuel. Fine in theory, but the accuracy is affected if the surface of the fuel is at an angle or has air bubbles on it. So, it only measures accurately when the aircraft isn't climbing, descending, banking, going through turbulence... To combat this, the fuel measurements are averaged over 15 minutes.
Modern aircraft are moving away from the old, heavy, expensive hydrolic thrust reversers and using electric systems (same for things like the brakes, flight and control surfaces too). To be honest, as the thrust reversers are a safety critical system - you don't want them deploying during flight for instance, they are pretty safe, they are either designed to fail safe, or carry on working even if there are problems ( half a deploy is better than no deploy on landing). The motors used are designed to be light, small and powerful, but this means that if used too often, they overheat much quicker than the hydrolic systems. The specification is to be able to perform two deploy/stow cycles within 15 minutes without sustaining damage - enough for an aborted take-off, or a go-around. They're actually better than that, I'd say they would survive 4 or 5 cycles in that time but I wouldn't want to push it...
On a side note, the point of the thrust reversers is not to stop the aircraft, but to reduce the wear on those expensive brakes.
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The title says "Interspecies relations", and yet we didn't even get a KISS! Hell there wasn't even a "Dim I'm madly and romantic/sexually in love with you!" type of confessions.
I'm reporting you. Title was misleading of the actual contents of this package.
Well now, this should be a fun leg of the trip.
Well played kudzu, well played.
When I read:
I likely would have said something about why there weren't any militaries using the tech (functioning exosuits/armor would be a pretty big force multiplier for elite troops, or the rank-and-file if you could make them cost-effective. With the fact that the world is fighting an existential threat, any possible advantages would be seized upon by either or both sides.), but:
You answered that within a few paragraphs of introducing them. Expertly anticipated.
(Also, something I noticed while looking over my comment before posting: I think you may have gotten "would and could" in that last sentence I quoted reversed. It makes more sense as "could and would" or even "could, and in fact would, cause catastrophic failure." or somesuch.)
This is the most pleasurable cock-tease ship I have ever
enduredexperienced. Perhaps as expert as Nynaevae and Lan from The Wheel of Time. I love the slow, slow burn. In Chantico I trust.8488526
Am i the only one who actually loves pony name puns?
I really like the steam powered exo frames, and the realization of the main problem with steam powered exo frames. It's probably easier to enchant the furnaces so that the combustion is more complete then it is to render them safe against boiler explosions.
For the chuckles...'the Celestium Falcon'??