I thought that’s why people are lining up outside chinese dealerships.

The last two sentences remind me of the line from Goodfellas:

In an artillery piece, “elevation” is the angle which the gun barrel points up or down. Likewise, in an airplane, the elevator controls the pitch angle of the airplane. Also, it is the universally accepted term used in aeronautics to describe the control surface.

I just think that, since most of the benefit of upgrading was the engines, there just wasn’t a case to be made to pay for a new airframe. Not enough benefit in operating costs. Airbus arrived at the same conclusion with the A320. Of course, the A320 was built with longer landing gear, which makes it far easier to add…

The airframe has only one fundamental flaw - they’re stuck with the landing gear length that was originally sized for ground clearance for JT8-Ds and they’ve had to work around that for adding bigger and bigger turbofans.

Herb resigned as president/CEO in 2001, and left the board in 2008, before the 737 MAX program even started. So, while SWA might have been the problem, I don’t think you can directly blame Herb.

Thank you. This article is rather inaccurate.

One slight point - it didn’t pick up the AMR-1 tub until after it lost the IndyCar bid and they were trying to repurpose the approach for ALMS. They were going to use a custom tub for IndyCar.

Does it come with any setup recommendations - at least a starting point? I could imagine that someone could get themselves in trouble with all these setup options if they weren’t rather seasoned at racecar setup.

Just a reminder that general anesthesia is not like going to sleep; it’s like the anesthesiologist/anesthetist shutting down many of your vital bodily functions and taking responsibility for those themselves.

My understanding is that they were removed mostly due to maintenance issues, and the aerodynamic impact is minimal on the F-15. I don’t know why NASA keeps the turkey feathers on theirs - of course, with only 1, the maintenance load is less, and it could be that they have characterized the F-15 with them on and don’t…

THAT IS TOTALLY CRAZY!!!!

I also see a lot of Regulus 2 in the comic aircraft:

There’s also the F-15 Quiet Spike, another NAS experiment on changing aircraft structure to reduce sonic boom.

Spartan, I would assume. Unless someone is shipping waterslides and other amenities for other cruise ships in containers. As usual, Youtube is your source.

I’m a little unclear. The builder is going bankrupt, but wouldn’t it be in the interest of the company who commissioned her (Dream Cruises) to take delivery of the hull and uninstalled components “as-is” and have another shipyard complete her? Sounds like Dream Cruises is also in financial trouble (surprise,…

The author made it sound unusual that the airplane could scoop up water from a lake. That’s actually very common for amphibs and seaplanes, with the exception of the Mars, which is just too bonkers big to make that work well. The CL-215 and CL-415 can do this, as as well as the AT-802F.

Dunno about this situation, but Ever Given was affected heavily by heavy side winds and a tall structure that gave those winds ample area on which to operate, which overwhelmed the control authority the ship had.

I think that the peak can certainly be debated, but the IRL cars were always ugly, and by the time that Champcar went spec (2003), even those cars started looking too generic for my taste. The post-airbox DW12 certainly reversed the trend, but there’s still a ways to go.

It wasn’t bad, and kept many of the lines, but was a little generic in my eyes compared to the cars of the ‘90s.