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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Man Mass Effect Andromeda wasn’t the huge disappointment I was expecting but it still lowkey sucks in a lot of ways
Allow me to share some gamer thoughts:
What is up with this game feeling like a bigger slog than driving the Mako up 90 degree slopes in ME1? That’s prob this games biggest problem - it’s real boring.
The first game was immediately interesting with how it threw you straight into the action with all these weird aliens and stuff. This one recycles the whole disappeared ancient alien mystery thing and only introduces two (so far) species of dudes when they had a whole new galaxy to play with? Everything about the Tempest and crew only remind me how they’re not the Normandy and Shep squad too lol. Why did they do this
And while I’m on story - it’s kinda weird, some of the other choices they made here. Other than the whole mass effect eezo thing, the series has always felt harder sci-fi than most. This shit with the scourge for example is wacky. Dark energy tendrils stretching for light years? Huh? I just hope there’s some kind of explanation that isn’t just older aliens than the old aliens fucked the place like with the reapers. Just saying that kinda sucked too. I guess in that case it wouldn’t be so bad if it was just space black magic
Another - why can all the aliens understand each other? First contact with the angara kinda blew.
Why are they called kett? Is that what their grunts sound like? Who named them? Who talked to them? Is it a slur???
Why are the kett?
Non story stuff - Menus suck ass. Constantly backing in and out of shit I don’t want on keyboard and mouse. How is ME1’s better?
I think the combat sucks kinda. Could just still be salty about the changes to tech armor over installments. But only 3 skills? And I feel like your homies are more worthless than ever. Commanding always sucked but unless I missed it, you can’t even control the skills they use anymore? Kinda defeats the purpose of taking some biotic guy to compliment your lack of biotics or whatever.
Idk what it is but somehow I enjoy ME1s exploration way more than this. Missed it in the other two games but now that it’s back in a way it’s somehow lacking or boring? Maybe I miss the cannon?
That’s all for now I guess.
this dude said “March”
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
being sore after working out is the best feeling :comfy:
