Used to be a time when the tone of this story would be, "Look at the clever thing these awesome pilots found time to do for their families and friends at the end of their training mission. Ain't America great?" How far we have fallen.

Fighter pilots, affectionately, on the SLUF: "It may not be fast, but it's slow!"

And, you pay a penalty in size, weight, and complexity with two engines over one, assuming all the engines being compared are of the same vintage/have similar thrust-to-weight and specific fuel consumption. However, in a flat-ish aircraft with internal motors, there may be an advantage to having an "inline-two" over…

I like my coffee like I like my slaves...

Prevent A by banning B: Page one of the Weak-minded Playbook of the Irrational yet Controlling. See also Drugs, Guns, and NYC 32 Ounce Cokes.

I wonder why she (and others) always seem to choose this false dichotomy, books or guns.

Or, if they cop an attitude, "Aisle Donkey." They love that.

"Just because you put a baked potato in the freezer doesn't mean your ice cream is going to melt."

The Hornet clips are lifted from (and the music is much better) here:

Of the ~33,000, about 20,000 of the "slaughters" are suicides*. Five hundred are accidents. A few hundred are undetermined.

At least my assertion has a cited source, and one who fully admits that neither he nor anyone else understands the contradictory data. Maybe the earth is warming. Maybe it is cooling. Depending on the time frame one is looking at, one can find an upward OR downward trend (hour, day, month, year, decade, century,…

Well, if the data does not support your conclusions, it's time to revise your testing methods until it does, I suppose.

But, remember, those are eyeball back Gs, much like a carrier aviator experiences when he takes a catapult shot. They are thrilling, but very different than positive G, which are painful and make you black out, eventually.

Interesting article, even for a guy who's "been there, done that."

"If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass when he hopped."

The rotating blades move fast enough to trigger Doppler radar returns, if angled so they spin toward or away from the radars, i.e. the face of the turbine is pointed 90 degrees away from the radar transmitter.

Project, as shown: about $30 in parts, an hour of labor, plus $5.00 in ice every time you want to use it.

Interesting that some who decry homophobia, embrace hoplophobia. In fact, both are irrational. A rifle in the safe is no more harmful or scary than a gay child in his bedroom.

How about women having sex with drunk men? Or drunk people having sex with each other?

Remember: You can only tie the low altitude record.