scania V8 in a f350

Your information regarding the origins of world changing inventions aren't that accurate.

 

They're not?
Meucci : phone,
Logie Baird : tv
Whittle: jet engine
Babbage : first mechanical computer
Flowers: first electronic computer ( name only released after 50 yrs cos it was invented during the war and wasn't allowed to be revealed because of the official secrets act in Britain)
Bushnell : first submarine
J.p. Holland: first Resubmersible submarine
Hoban: White house
Levevasseur: v8 engine
Benz: car
Roentgen : xrays
Einstien: Theory of mass and energy
Fritz/Hahn: nuclear fission
Chinese : flight, kites were built there as far back as 400ad, they also invented a toy I can't remember what it's called but it worked like a helicopter

I think these are right, let me know what I got wrong

 

Yup nothing can match the f22 that's for sure, most planes will never even see it coming and if they do ; it's already too late! It is the most hi--tech fighter ever but I've seen a programme where the American military admitted it can't match the su37 for manoeuvrability , prototype or not it flies and is an amazing achievement especially considiring the budget the Russians have. There have been some really interesting prototypes coming out of Russia , some amazing stuff,

Yup the Valkarie was an amazing piece of kit, a few months ago I was at an air museum in England, there they have an sr71, I thought they looked amazing on tv but in real life it was something else, it's size for starters, then the detailing you just don't see on tv, I gotta a really cool picture taken by NASA where the sr71 is actually bending light waves as it flies, unbelievable ! To think that was made all those Years ago, one has to wonder what they are building now

 

I try to avoid everything made in America because these days they are mostly crap. Especially everything that has to do with vehicles, high performance parts etc. "Proudly made in USA" is a joke in Europe, especially in Scandinavia. I prefer made in China over made in USA.

 

dont forget tesla he was serbian from croatia and made his first HE power plant in croatia , which was not so strong but could power 250 bulbs

i know that he could not develop so much things if he stay here there was no money for his project but need to mention him


also related to scania and aircrafts

scania interior ####pit and dashboard and things around driver were designed by aircraft engineers thats why scania have worlds best ergonomics

 

when did you fly plane the last time? I do not think aricraft cocpit is the good of ergonomics!

Plane cabs are ascetic. but too many gauges, many circuit brakers, navigation equipment.

newer planes got no gaiges and instruments. LCD panels only

 

not quite sure what did you asking if you ask me this

as you know i am not pilot

i you ask when i last time was in plane it was year ago

i think aircraft and truck could not be compared but easly lot of things in planes all of them are necessary but generally they are good

 

I was only ever in one American truck, that was last week, it's in Ritchie bros auctions in moerdijk in holland,it was a '99 freightliner, I don't know the model but it's on their website, yeah it was very badly built, it wouldn't last on Irish roads that's for sure, interior was terrible, cheap horrible plastic and a clutch I could hardly press, the technology was like a 1970's scania 1 series, massive switches, clumsy controls, no cab suspension, mirrors were totally inadequate and vision out of the cab was pointless. I also couldn't believe how small it was, absolutely tiny , I have a picture of it beside the r620 i was driving and the top of the cab doesn't reach the wide angle mirror, I dont think freightliners are held in high regard in the US so that might be a bad truck for a comparison, I have been around US cars though,lincons, buicks, pontiacs, corvettes and camaeros etc, yeah cheaply and badly made, some pick up trucks are ok but you need shares in OPEC to run them.

They do make some fantastic aircraft though, but cars from the US have no character, pigs to drive and unreliable, but I can't comment on their trucks, I wouldn't like my pride and joy judged on an amercan seeing an ERF or a FODEN, I'd like the experience of driving a new peterbilt aero or a kenworth or a premium brand truck there,

 

'99 Century class is very reliable thing.

Ckutch w/o servo - servo never fails, and clutch life is much longer comparing with european truck. Driver will not use clutch too frequantly becouse it is hard to depress so driver will save clutch.

About mirrors - I cant see notisable difference with EU cabover... vision is good.

But cab is narower so you need some practice to feel it well.

yep, century class is really old school truck. but simple that's why reliable

 

This particular freightliner was a Canadian reg, the mirrors were very small and narrow and had pretty flat glass, in the right mirror I could see the exhaust and last wheel on the right side, in comparison in the scania I can see from behind front axle and all of my trailer top to bottom even everything beside me on the motorway, that clutch would kill me in bad traffic with start-stop, also it had drum brakes, not good on a motorway truck! Safety should be priority, any idea how I can upload a picture from my phone to this?