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Well said and sad to see the designers/engineers sacrificed at the altar of cost and schedule. How the Engineering Directors signed off on the...
As an engineer once said to a pilot "Don't worry, it's only a glider". Or is this case, "Nothing really changed, just a few lines of code. It is...
Safe now but I hope Boeing Leadership (CEO, PMs and especially Engineering) learned some lessons. Just to save some bucks on training,...
It flew in 2003 to demonstrate that aircraft shaping can reduce the strength of the shock waves/sonic booms and they achieved a 30% reduction...
Modified F-5E Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstrator [ATTACH]
In his Pilot's Report article in Air Force magazine, test pilot Scott Parks wrote: While the aircraft is already nonstandard, modifications...
Here is more on the F-111 Research Aircraft mentioned above: The General Dynamics–Boeing AFTI/F-111A Aardvark was a research aircraft modified to...
That was a good video showing all the programs that modified F-15 research aircraft was used for over the years. I worked at the AF Flight...
The XP-82 at the Valiant Air Command warbird museum in Florida. It is flyable and could be yours for about $11M or so [ATTACH]
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With conformal tanks, could the F-16 still reach supersonic speeds? Without conformal tanks, I believe it reached about Mach 1.8, limited mainly...
I recently got a tour of the showroom and service department and was impressed with the new facility and the salesman. They serviced my car many...
England, 1909: As they say ".... when pigs fly or hell freezes over." [ATTACH]
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If the test pilot intentionally misled and withheld information from the FAA, that is a problem. If he just went along with the testing of a...
The one time that I pressed my hazard switch, it worked but would not stay down. So I had to remove it and fix/adjust it. Search the threads and...
As long as they are real girls. No swimsuit models from Sports Illustrated need apply.
After that, it will be as a tribute to him, their greatest driver.
Is there any talk of Mercedes going to go back to Silver cars anytime soon? The car was black last season and is focused on bringing attention to...
I have not studied this much, but why are almost all the photos fuzzy? We now have very sophisticated optics and sensors on military aircraft...