[T3] pop-out windows on a fastback

[Jim Adney]

On 10 Jan 2014 at 9:04, Tony Rongey wrote:

> That bending glass thing just freaks the heck out of me every time I
> open mine. What were those guys smoking when they dreamed that up? 

I view it as a perfect example of great engineering. They bend, but 
they never break. Those guys knew EXACTLY what they were doing.

We all tend to think of materials as falling strictly into 2 groups: 
rigid or flexible. But nothing is perfectly rigid; everything's 
flexible to some extent; it's just a matter of degree. I tend to 
think about this every time I see one of those aluminum flatbed 
semi-trailers. Notice that they usually have quite a bit of arch to 
them, but I'll bet they're flat when they're loaded to their full 
capacity.

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Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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