Self reporting to the FAA is always better than an emergency AD issued by the FAA to ground the whole fleet. The FAA will usually work towards a reasonable solution if you are honest about it.
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Two reasons why old people don't get retested.
Phoenix Heli-Flight's EC-135T2+, located in Fort McMurray, AB, Canada, is the only medivac helicopter covering most of northern Alberta. Most of the helicopters have a fiery phoenix painted on it. This one was painted with the northern lights, but the artist still manage to incorporate the phoenix into the northern…
I find it kind of funny that they design the gates to close after the baskets are released. If you were jumping into the baskets, I don't think there would be anyone else left on the platform.
Back in the mid-2000's, the Ford Focus WRC was suffering nose down attitude coming off of jumps due to the high CG. It went on a big diet. WRC cars at that time typically had separate rear brake lever and shifter. Ford combined the two levers into one. If the hydraulic shifting failed, they would connect a linkage to…
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.