The mechanic down the street isn’t going to know what to do with a Tesla.

Just wait, he’ll be slapped with a sexual harassment lawsuit for trying to hump her.

That’s not true. The government wanted a plane that did everything. Lockheed won the contract to build a plane that can do everything. Then they realized they can’t build a plane that can do everything. So then the government has to keep dumping more money and keep lowering the requirements to get a plane in a timely…

Straight from Lockheed:

It goes back to my point, no one expects the B-2 to dogfight because it is not a fighter. When they redesigned the F-8 Crusader into the A-7 Corsair II, it lost its dogfighting abilities and everyone knows that. Heck, departure from controlled flight was its method to disengage from a dogfight. If the F-35 is marketed…

F-117 was never a fighter. It was a bomber. They only called it a fighter because it was the only way they could get their top fighter jocks to fly around in A-7’s before flying the F-117. The A-7 is just as capable of dogfighting as the F-117.

Technology is why people do get lost. When the GPS tells someone to turn right, they turn right, without ever thinking about it. That’s why we have people that get lost all the time driving to the Grand Canyon. If you look at a map, paper or electronic, it’s pretty clear where there are paved roads and dirt roads. If…

Not when you don’t design in the capabilities. Dogfighting is the equivalent of hand to hand combat. If they didn’t want the plane to be able to dogfight, they should change the designation to B-35. They might as well take air combat maneuvering out of the curriculum. No need to waste all that jet fuel to teach…

It’s widely known that if we ever get into a war with China, their strategy is to go all out and attack S. Korea, Japan, and Taiwan at the same time. They know the US would not be able to cover all that at the same time. Even Taiwan knows that they wouldn’t be able to defend the island, which is why their targets are…

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…