West Palm Beach to be exact.

47's landing gears don't retract.

Rule of thumb is 3 minutes between aircrafts.

Back when test pilots had big balls and no lawyers watching their every move.

In this case, it's not the driver's fault. The car had the green light.

My coworker was just telling me some of the projects he did while working at Edwards, mainly dealing with flow issues on the F-16. Like when they mounted the first Lantirn pod and the flutter it caused on the ventral fins causing them to break off. There was other ordnance they tested that was causing the tufts on the…

That's one of the reason why rally racing is so interesting. The driver/co-driver need to know how to MacGyver their car back together to get to the finish. Things like Petter Solhberg breaking the shift paddle and using vise-grip as a makeshift paddle.

The raw cost to operate a 407 is about $525/hr. Add in insurance and everything else, it'll be a good $1000/hr in raw cost. Most charters will charge easy $2000/hr with a 2 hr minimum.

It's a publicity stunt. Why would you test at 650 mph when you are shooting for 1000 mph? Wouldn't the test be more realistic to use two planes? On the other hand, move your antennas further away and the Doppler effect is lessen. Or they could have just used telemetry equipment from the aviation world.

Aero L-39 Albatros.

The Hummingbird program has been canceled. The camera pod that was attached to it was pretty huge. The helicopter was pretty big to begin with.

Technically no. USS Essex was the widest ship to use the Panama Canal in April of 1943. While the beam is narrower (93 ft), the ship (147 ft) was wider than the canal. Even with everything folded up it still took out all the lights on both sides of the canal.

Dumbass bone pilot decided to go full throttle after refueling, accelerate under the KC-135 and pop up in front of her. The KC-135 pilot also went full throttle. Since neither pilot can see each other, the two collided. The bone's vertical stab puncture the center tank of the KC-135.

The same plane he worked on is most likely still flying today.

Kenwood had to redesign the stereo system/CD changer because it was too heavy.

The large helicopter companies build very few parts. They only assemble the parts.

Better than the plastic posts that was there before.

Usually is. The lesser model still has the key in the column.

Time of flight of a bullet at a mile is 3 or so seconds. The software is not that good to predict where a moving target is going to end up if it wasn't traveling at a constant speed or static.

Camelbak Eddy works great as long as you don't do any traveling vertically. Any major elevation changes will cause liquid to leak out of the relief valve.

Camelbak Eddy works great as long as you don't do any traveling vertically. Any major elevation changes will cause…