But the pentagon dumped all their money into the F-35 to replace all the other planes. That’s the problem. It’s a jack of all trades, but master of none.

This is like saying we don’t need to know how to fight hand to hand or use a bayonet because we can just shoot the person 300 yards away.

How about F1. It has all been about brake management with the energy recovery system since the rotors are tiny now.

I don’t have an issue with team orders especially if you use them effectively like Mansell using Patrese to wear out Senna’s tires in Italy 1991.

I had my oil sent to Blackstone for a couple of oil changes. They came back and said that I could probably do more than 3500 miles on the synthetic oil, but with below average wear with a high mileage engine they recommended to keep doing the same.

The first window is normally an escape hatch along with the aft most window. These birds have the optional sliding window, which you can see the rails above and below the 2nd window. Since they have a hoist on the other side, they also have the sliding door option instead of the clam shell door that is typical of…

Nope. CH-148 has a short work platform up front on transmission deck, no sliding window, and stub winglet on the sponsons.

F-111 was General Dynamics. The EF-111 were rebuilt by Grumman. Grumman also built the E-2’s and C-2, both flying.

On a grand scale, investing in DeLorean, Fiskar Automotive, or Moeller Skycar.

While IFF has progressed, the human operating it hasn’t. IFF system can and do fail. Then there’s failure of the operator, not turning the system on, not loading the proper identification codes, not having the proper encryption codes. Once you have a BVR fratricide, the ROE will change to visual identification and now…

Every time we allow BVR kills, we either shoot down our own airplane or the pilot has second thoughts and visually ID our own airplane. Happened in Vietnam, Desert Storm I and II. That last time that happen, the fighter was over Iraq in a no fly zone, controller gave him the green light to shoot the plane down since…

If your car can decelerate at 1 g, essentially you are hanging straight down.

Original prototypes didn’t have the huge door, just the door that is now used for the main engine auxiliary inlet.

It it was real, that is one giant multi-rotor copter considering the winglet is about 8 feet long.

That style of seating would never get FAA approval. Plus the aircraft is not that wide.

Definitely not a 76.

What about the time when Caddy thought they would have a chance at winning when the Audi car developed transmission problems. 4 minutes later, Caddy guys were standing there going “WTF just happened?” as the Audi car pulled out of the pit with a new transmission.

Nose from two years ago.

That was not how skunk works operated. Kelly Johnson expected his engineers to be on the shop floor the moment the drawings were released. Engineers would spend 1/3 of their time on the shop and the shop workers were expected to be in the design meetings.

What about no engineer should be more than 100 feet from the production floor?