Posts by MisterIrrelevant

It would fit in a garage though...

If anybody picked up on this I missed it, but one thing that the Twizzy will do which almost no current production car is able would be to be easily parked in a normal standard single garage with adequate space to easily enter and exit the vehicle.

Unhealthy depreciation also makes them available for a much more reasonable £4500-5000 on the used market too. At that I reckon that it starts to make quite a bit more sense for short range commuting and such like.

What about AEW?

Surely a potentially even greater use of unmanned carrier aircraft would be a replacement for the E2? With no crew to rotate, more fuel capacity and the possibility of unmanned aerial refuelling a carried could potentially keep its radar coverage on station for days at a time. Indeed - it could be manned around the clock from land bases and free up a few bunks...

Not just offensive aircraft...

It is a start, but the thing that is perhaps even more suitable as an unmanned platform would be AEW. There wouldn't even be the controversy over that that occassionally stirs up with armed UAVs.

Rather than a cramped E2 going up in shifts of up to 6 hours, a carrier could then put its radar coverage up for 12 hours at a time (perhaps significantly longer - maybe days with unmanned aerial refuelling) and the crew could simply rotate shifts on the ship or even back in its home country. In theory such a solution would also be able to replace the land based E3 fleet at considerably lower operating cost.

Wouldn't you be able to use time machine for this?

Since iTunes stores a copy of applications then wouldn't you be able to delete it from the phone, restore a pre-update backup of your machine then resynch the old version of the app onto it?

Obviously a PitA, but surely worth a try?