Everyone dies as they fall out of the sky. NTSB determines pilot suffered head trauma similar to being punched in the back of the head, rules passenger is at fault. Drunk passenger’s family still sues pilot’s family, owner of the helicopter, Uber, Airbus Helicopter, and Turbomeca for millions. That’s pretty much how…

California Penal Code 632 appears to only cover recording of audio conversation, not video.

Why would any company want to spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop a digital back for a bunch of cameras that are in a niche market?

Air to air refueling isn’t exactly easy. The aluminum isn’t that thick in the nose. We built a few nose assemblies here a couple months ago. The drill fixture is pretty cool.

Here’s another bombshell, the show isn’t factual.

In the Air France incident, one of the issues was the pilot really forgot the basics of flying. When the stall warning went off and the nose started dropping, he increased powered and continue to pull up because they only trained to deal with stalls on takeoff. But when you are at 30,000 ft, you point the nose down to…

Remember, her primary job is a taxi driver. So driving and talking is an everyday routine for her.

The only reason Subaru is even around is because AWD. Back in the late 80's/early 90's, the FWD Legacy was losing out to the Accord and Camry. They made the decision to go AWD only throughout their product line to distance themselves from Honda and Toyota.

Basically what Kodak did with the digital backs that were adapted to work with Nikon and Canon SLR.

It’s interesting the Russians duct the exhaust downward, whereas we duct it upwards into the rotorwash to reduce the IR signature.

Back in the mid 1990's, a UC Davis student went into one at a nearby dam. They figured it was a suicide.

PT6 in the turboshaft version for a helicopter such as the AW139 is a bit of a mess. The exhaust is routed down the center of the fuselage and exits aft of the inlet. You have to do this to prevent ingestion of the exhaust. The major downside is the heat retention in the exhaust causing a lot of cracking in the…

I remember watching one year where they had a river crossing, one of the motorcycle went into a huge hole in the river and hydrolocked his engine. He did his best to fix the problem, but couldn’t. While waiting for his support vehicle, he waved at people to avoid his line into the hole. Most were able but one of the…

These aren’t tied to a phone. Apple Watch and other smart watches uses the phone for GPS.

Here’s the discussions from the helicopter gossip forum. http://originalforum.justhelicopters.com/DisplayThread.…

They should just stay home. Chances are they just stay in the left lane going 10 mph under the speed limit.

Opting out really doesn’t cause a scene. All you do is say opt out and they pull you aside until they get one of the gropers who are just standing around to come over and punch you in the nuts.

It’s the people that don’t travel on a regular basis that make the lines twice as long because they can’t read the damn sign that tells you what you can and cannot bring. Then they have to go through the scanner like 3 times before they finally empty out their pockets, old people are the worst.

They are all listed on the FAA registry which you can search directly. However, most people finance their planes or put it into corporations and LLC that is in a more tax forgiving state so it becomes harder to trace. For example, one of Donald Trump’s helicopter is registered to DJT Aerospace LLC. http://registry.faa.…

I almost bought one, ended up with a Scooby Legacy GT wagon. The main thing I didn’t like about the V70R is the horrendous turning circle, it’s worse than a suburban. They also went through quite a few fuel pumps that wasn’t normally stocked by Volvo.