Takeoff Quotes

“By the time I had everything I needed, the cops watching Max’s house reported that Drew was on the move. Driving his black 328i, but not hightailing it. Just steering the Beemer like he was out for a leisurely cruise. The route he was taking—out of their ritzy neighborhood and onto 360—would place him right by the airport”
― Joseph Reid, Takeoff

“Although we could have gone”
― Joseph Reid, Takeoff

“Peña appeared next to me, helped me to my feet, and led me off the copter. We were standing on some rooftop. With the sun up now, heat rippled off the tar, and the downdraft from the rotors felt like the blast from a convection oven”
― Joseph Reid, Takeoff

“Ideally, you want components with a flat frequency/response curve: they apply identical amounts of energy to every sound frequency, so the proper balance between high and low is maintained. Although Neat Acoustics isn’t as well known in the States, I’d heard some of their speakers demoed at a conference in Brussels once and decided I needed a pair if I could ever afford them. When I bought the house, I settled on a pair of Ultimatum XL6s. Only three feet high, they use some neat engineering tricks to generate a much fuller frequency range than you’d expect. For example, each speaker contains an isobaric bass chamber, with two drivers lined up one behind the other inside the closed compartment. With the two woofers rigged so their cones move simultaneously, you can create the same bass sound in half the cabinet space. Unfortunately, the trade-off for such a compact design is density, of”
― Joseph Reid, Takeoff

“Ideally, you want components with a flat frequency/response curve: they apply identical amounts of energy to every sound frequency, so the proper balance between high and low is maintained.”
― Joseph Reid, Takeoff