The "Kulbit" (also known as the "Frolov chakra") is another aerial maneuver developed by Russian pilots in which the aircraft performs an extremely tight loop, often not much wider than the length of the aircraft itself. It differs from the traditional inside loop as it uses post-stall maneuvering, or PSM, techniques. Like most post-stall maneuvers, it demonstrates pitch control outside the normal flight envelope wherein pitch control is made possible by having aerodynamic flow over the aircraft's elevators or stabilators.
The name "Kulbit" is derived from the Russian Кульбит, meaning "somersault". The alternate name, "Frolov's Chakra", refers to Russian test pilot Yevgeni Frolov, the pilot who first carried out the maneuver, while "chakra" is a yogic term, meaning "vortex" or "whirlpool".
The Kulbit drastically decreases the aircraft's speed and could theoretically be used to cause a pursuing aircraft to overshoot its target. The maneuver is closely related to the famous "Pugachev's Cobra" maneuver, but the Kulbit completes the loop that the Cobra almost immediately cuts off.
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when you almost finish writing a mega and you see the pin in the nerd call :debord-tired:
I'm going to keep adding emotes to the messages every day until it becomes incomprehensible
Still not coping well since the leak. Can't stomach the prospect of losing both Roe and Lawrence/Obergefell. Not sleeping, not eating. Wish I had been aborted because clearly this fucking country doesn't want me alive.
I'm sorry comrade. We WILL protect you. Some of us here are quite privileged, and we are committed to using every ounce of that privilege to make sure our marginalized comrades are safe.
I think Sinn Fein and the IRA chose to lay down arms at the right moment in history. A post-9/11 IRA would have been very, very bad for all parties. And while the IRA is quite popular with leftists I get the impression that most Irish people wanted the violence to stop and didn't consider it worth it to re-unite Ireland.
With things as they are going its seeming more and more likely that reunification will happen in our life time. As long as the UK keeps voting in Tories who are happy to throw them under the bus NI will continue to move away from Unionism as the old guard die out.
there are a lot of unionist kids too, they're still very much a major factor and do come out in force when things heat up, a look at the unionist riots from 2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Northern_Ireland_riots will show you there are still a significant amount of young people. the reason SF are doing really well is they provide actual policy, hope for change, and left wing ideas, their republicanism to unite Ireland is honestly more of a secondary thing about the party, and even seen as a lofty 'it'll never happen' by many who vote for them, because they care far more about their policies and left wing ideas than liberating the occupied counties tbh. I think SF will continue to grow and Ireland will unite, but it's not as simple as you might think
Just read an article from the Michelin Guide about the "rigors" of being a Michelin Inspector. "It may sound like a dream job, but in reality it's quite tough. 2 meals a day, 5 days a week, 300 days a year."
THE HORROR!
Traveling the world and eating exclusively at the world's best restaurants, all for free, throughout the entire year??? Heaven forbid!
The travel would be hard. That kind of pace is grueling, constantly disrupted sleep and spending your life basically at airports, leaving airports, going to airports, or getting harassed by the TSA. I can see how it would be fun for some people but it's not something I'd want to do.
I mean, I think you spend months at a time in a single city because you need to try like 100 restaurants or more in each city.
I wonder if the privileged genuinely believe their cushy jobs are tough or just can't help but partake in even make-believe martyrdom. Also, I can't decide which I find more distasteful.
There are so many exotic aerial phenomena, and so many ways that human perception fails or produces experiences that don't reflect reality. Combined with the physical unlikeliness of any space travel, let alone flying ships that violate conservation of momentum, I've never found the idea that UFOs are space craft very convincing.
The virgin first in the thread versus the Chad last in the thread. Any nerd can answer the new mega roll call, but the true poster is the last in the old mega
I didn’t see three separate people shoplift from the grocery store today. It’s fucking bleak that people can’t afford regular groceries to this degree
cursed shower thought - CW major psychic damage
Madison Cawthorn is the queer coded villain for this season of America
If Christian Smalls dies in the next decade, no matter the cause of death, it was an assassination.
- Go to gym saying you’ll try some dumbbell workouts
- See the type of guys who hang out by the free weights and get intimidated
- Get a crappier workout on weight machines.
My mental health is such trash right now lmao.
:shrug-outta-hecks: my partner tested positive for covid this morning and I've been around them essentially constantly for the past week, so no point for me to isolate from them. Made it 2 years 2 months without catching covid, not bad
I was making dhal for lunch and my dad said I was an idiot for 'having seeds and things in a pan on the stove' as in toasting my spices...
British people learn even one thing about preparing food challenge
yooo what kind of dhal? Moong, Urad, Toor? Introduce yerda to salt, he will be blown away.
Lmao.
Doesn't he even know about toasted pepper. Isn't pepper commonly used in food in Europe?
as I have previously quoted from my dear father, he 'don't do that whole spices thing'. anglo boomers are so much worse than european cooks at large because of rationing in the UK in the 40s and 50s
ok the eel thing is something I will not have people slander online. much like other British foods seen as gross and weird like baked beans and shit, it's just poor people food. cockneys, as in working class people, from the east of London used to eat eels because they live in the estuary and so were cheap, in a time protein and meat was not, and so working class people come to identify with their weird foods they eat. it's kinda gross looking for sure, but not any more so than any other consuming of flesh :im-vegan:
True, I was more trying to refer to boiled unseasoned food in general. Sorry for slandering anyone, it wasn't what I intended.
Also baked beans are good lol, look up Chakalaka for a way to make them even better
@DeathToBritain Eel is delicious, tbh. It tastes like a very light and delicate tuna.
I fly a rainbow flag at my house as a show of solidarity and it’s amazing how much negative attention it attracts, although a lib sent me a really nice card about it once :shrug-outta-hecks:
