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July 22

Biking

During a hot summer in California, is it better to bike in the early morning or the evening? TWOrantula^TM (enter the web) 05:23, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Define "better". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 07:35, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

It's generally cooler in the early morning than in the early evening. Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:59, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

☝🏽 that and traffic is usually lighter too, plus early morning cardio has health benefits. Folly Mox (talk) 10:58, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Airplane Engineers' Wages in the Late 1950s

Paul A. Suhler, From Rainbow to Gusto: Stealth and the Design of the Lockheed Blackbird (2009), p. 95:

Using a figure of $10 per hour, one week would cost $16,000. He (Kelly Johnson) added a profit of $500 per week and concluded, “For $225,000 can go full steam for 3 months” (Johnson, C. L., Archangel project design notebook, Lockheed ADP, Burbank, CA, entry for 26 April 1958, pg. 1).

It cost $16,000/week for a 40-man team to operate at full speed in 1958. I think this cost means wages + office costs (housing, utilities, many other things). How much money could an engineer make in the late 1950s? -- Toytoy (talk) 05:49, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

The 1960 census report (published in 1962) here shows "craftsmen, operatives, and kind" had a median income of $6,200. It also shows that salaries increased a great deal between 1950 and 1960, even when adjusted for 1960 dollars. 75.136.148.8 (talk) 14:34, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Navy ship Palestine

Hello everybody. At one time, Palestinian security forces used the former fishing trawler Chandalahe for military purposes; Israel damaged it in 2002 and since then it has been abandoned off the coast of Gaza. I wanted to know what his current fate is? Vyacheslav84 (talk) 15:33, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Google has no results for that name except your query. You might try Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ships? Alansplodge (talk) 15:19, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. Vyacheslav84 (talk) 23:23, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Is this the transliteration of the name in Arabic?  --Lambiam 21:57, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

I do not know. Vyacheslav84 (talk) 23:23, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Do you have any accessible source mentioning this name?  --Lambiam 09:35, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Here the ship is named "Chindallah", and said to have been destroyed, although it may have been only "badly damaged".^[1] "Shindallah" (شيندالله?) looks like an Arabic name.  --Lambiam 10:05, 24 July 2024 (UTC)