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    Clean Means
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    When it's 5 in the morning and you suddenly discover you've lost your water heater. Oh, it's raining again Oh no, my love's at an end Oh no, it's raining again And you know it's hard to pretend
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    And aircraft certification is harder and longer than anything. Unless you're one of those companies which can afford to produce multiple pre-series prototype to literally cheat.
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    I had a kind of similar idea in my teenage years, but at the time I was mostly focusing on general aviation, and I quickly realized that nobody around would be interested to carry a dead-weight at one time Once the turbo was taking over, the super was becoming somewhat useless, and in the lower RPM (taxi and descent) the turbo would not be turning. However, I think the concept could still be interesting in our days for some performance cars. We are surrounded of high performance models running on pure atmospheric units, or twin-turbochargers.
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    Ho Lam revert was right at this point. Then, Correct. Correct. Incorrect. Last correct was @Ho Lam Kerman at "5 (+)" --- 4 (-1)
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    Today I made a "difficult" (and expensive) step. For more than a year now, I looked after a new car. Not that my beloved Optima LX was becoming annoying, she always was pleasant to drive and extremely reliable. Apart of the 10 000 mi oil-change, and the day someone rear-ended, she never really disappointed me, and is a great drive for long commutes. However, something was bad with her: the power-to-weight ratio was awfully low. Despite having a pretty reasonable 2.4l Theta II, the torque was awful and I couldn't expect more than 245 Nm (181 ft-lb) of torque until I reached around 4200 rpm. Almost every single time I had to overtake someone, I had to down shift not one, but usually two to three gears until the speedometer started to move slowly. Long story short, I finally found one of my dream cars, and at a pretty good price (still not the 1st on my list, but I don't care at this point ): an Audi S4 B8.5. Apart of the potential fuel economy on highways, I never really understood why Audi stepped to a turbocharger on the latest B9, so I was really looking for this variant, the last generation of the A4-family with a supercharger instead. It's less than a day behind her wheel, but to me everything is just fantastic with her. The visibility is excellent, no more blind spot on both sides(!), the handling is great, and the engine just fantastic. Having brought her back gently around 70-72 mph, the whole consumption was around 7.13L/100 km / 33 mpg "only". Not fantastically thrifty I agree, but for a 3.0l six cylinders it really surprised me. Well, globally I'm just crazily happy for now, at such a point I'm laughing of pleasure while driving every ten minutes. We'll see after the first maintenance bill, but that's another story
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    Should still work for some time I remember how well our Austro Engine 300 was tolerant to Jet A1 (as diesel was unavailable at LFRB, simply). Now, that engine was specifically developed to gorge itself with both fuel.
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    -1 - Not anymore.
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    -5 - Taking note of that (seriously). Now, it's 21:45 for me and I need to take a break. Sorry @Seanburg2006, next time will be better.
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    -11 - That's an interesting one indeed! I got the Danau Toba on my wish-list too, to be there must be fantastic, just to realize that such a huge lake is a caldera.
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    -11 - Anyone I know around me and who visited Indonesia told me the same. If I'm remembering well it's even the country's first touristic destination, but what would really interest me is to walk and hike around the volcanoes of the country, such as Merapi or Tambora.
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    -11 - Nice, wish I could take a whole year of break to visit the country one day.
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    -11 - Oh, so you're living in the Western part of the country (Sumatra or Java)?
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    Sometime I'm forgetting that you are UTC+7 to +9 and not 0 or +1, so it's still a bit the early morning for you right now. -11 -
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    (This guy never gives up) -8 -
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    You're fine, it used to be way much messier around there -5 -
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