How the Air Force One Hybrid Works

Fun stuff. Every April Fools Day, "HowStuffWorks.com" likes to headline a good fake story.

In 2005, the headline was "Water Found on Mars!" Clicking the link took you to a photo of a glass of water atop a Mars candy bar (). :)

This year, it's an explanation of "How the Air Force One Hybrid Works" with (PhotoShopped) photo of a sleek green & white "Air Force One" on the tarmac next to it's predecessor.


The new hybrid Air Force One sits next to its predecessor on the tarmac in Washington D.C. in this April 1, 2008 photo.

Anyone know of a way to simply link to a photo without actually showing it?

The boards Markup parser gets confused when you embed a photo URL inside a "link" tag. :(

You put the photo's URL in the text part of the link tag like so:

link:hootinholler.com|http ://hootinholler.com/images/justice_truck.jpg

The photo below is a link:



Now, who knows how to get the code to show up as code rather than having to bastardize it with spaces? DU has no code tags.

-Hoot

That's the opposite of what I wanted.

I want to link to a photo w/o showing it (as in linking to the Mars/Water image above. I didn't need to show it, just link to it.)

Thanks though.

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"To keep the plane from relying on fossil fuels, Air Force One Hybrid's engines use a flexible fuel system. Every day, a special team collects used cooking oil from the White House, the Capitol building and other government-owned commissaries to be cleaned and reused as biofuel. In a pinch, and for areas where biofuels aren't readily available, jet fuel can still be used.



Cooking oil, used to power the four flexible-fuel engines on Air Force One, is taken from the White House and refined to use as aviation biofuel.


Since the job of Air Force One is to help the president make appearances around the world, it has to be ready to fly long distances. A typical 747-400ER can carry around 63,500 gallons of fuel (240,370 L), which is enough to take it from Los Angeles to Melbourne, Australia . The hybrid version, Blanchard said, is capable of distances at least that long using jet fuel alone. The parallel hybrid system adds another 500 miles (805 km) to that under optimal circumstances.


Col. Branch Heward, of the Presidential Airlift Group stationed at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., said he likes taking the new Air Force One up. "It's as smooth as silk," he said. "But it's strange stepping off the plane and the engines smell like Freedom Fries."

http://science.howstuffworks.com/air-force-one-hybrid1.htm

lots more at link

quite entertaining.