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  1. I am running an LG Ultrawide 34" 3440x1440 and I love it. It is slightly curved - which is nice - but I really must admit that a straight panel would work just as well and save you some dough. Be aware that the 4-8k line counts on wide screens affect your graphic card needs substantially.
  2. Bill - I am old enough to have experienced the good old days - and you just reminded me. But there now is a whole new generation of passengers who never knew them!
  3. The advantage is for the guy that turns left from home to go 10 miles to the airport, or turns right from home to go downtown to the office - and can also have some flying fun on weekends.
  4. While many new developments, such as electric planes, will have to face many problems during development, I am quite sure that patience and new and improved technologies - especially for batteries - will make this technology the future standard at least for shorter range aircraft. The day may come when we wonder how we could put up with those heavy, noisy, dirty engines that sometimes would quit on you!
  5. I'm sure the engines are fine, my concern was the weight, resulting movement stress and vibration with potential metal fatique. Those wings look pretty slim!
  6. Yes - but you have transportation for short and long trips at greater speed. And you can save the money for a car.
  7. https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/first-production-aw609-tiltrotor-finally-flies-after-decades-of-development/ar-AA13c8jJ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=99fea1f34d9040ae89516a217b0435ef I get nervous looking at the thin wings having to support those big engines with vibrations plus having to pull the fuselage forward at speed, but then what do I know?
  8. MalwareBytes has kept me out of trouble for years. Good Luck!
  9. I agree, but these things have not yet been in practical, every-day use, which is needed to sort out the necessary rules and features as well as those that don' work. It will be interesting to see how it all develops.
  10. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/fitness/world-s-first-flying-electric-car-race-just-happened/ar-AA12ZtzA?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=98addecf0a694c0bb450a7709ff34045
  11. Thank you Zippy - that one is even better!
  12. Hi Bill, The Electra pictures brought back some good memories. In the 1960's I worked in Rochester, NY, but did heavy business in Fort Worth, TX. I used to fly frequently to Dallas via Chicago. The usual flight from Rochester to Chicago was on a Business Class Electra. It had a curved sofa in the rear of the cabin, and young, pretty Stewardesses served free cocktails in nice miniskirts. Those were the days!
  13. Sorry - the video of the flying car, that I recommended, seems to have disappeared from the article!
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