Actually, you will see more surplus Blackhawks and Chinooks doing fire fighting. Some 700 are being sold from National Guard units to the surplus market. They will actually be more useful because all the military equipment will removed allowing it to carry more.

EPA wasn’t there because they were busy trying to defend themselves yesterday from the Flint fiasco. They weren’t looking too good from the internal emails.

I take it you never flown in the front seat of an airplane. Being able to see is extremely important. You are constantly scanning for other airplanes. By the time another airplane looks about the size of a quarter held at arm’s length, you are going oh crap.

FIA did test a F-16 canopy.

Ah the new politically correct Top Gear where no one gets offended, can’t say anything bad about anyone or anything. They probably won’t dare call Chris Harris, Monkey because it might offend someone.

Back in the days when aviation, in particular military aviation was all men, they found that a woman’s voice stood out more than a man’s voice. Men would not hear the male voices in the heat of battle. So that’s why it was mostly women’s voices for a while.

I like how they spread the rounds apart including the full auto burst towards the end to not show the weakness in armor.

Wouldn’t this scratch the plastic lens?

They tried it in F1, but with the high reving engine, the power required to move the valves was enormous. The performance gain was nullified by the additional power to drive the valves. The only gain was reduce vibration.

All helicopter rotor systems have to pass through its natural frequency before it gets up to its operating speed. That’s one way to cause that much vibration.

It reminds me of the Optigrab.

Subaru’s front heating element is embedded in the glass. They been doing this for quite a long time.

Because there are a lot of FAA regulations on how things are done. The seats cushions are all velcroed on and made of non-flammable materials. In fact, everything that is “attached” to the aircraft has to be burn tested before it can be accepted for use in the aircraft.

Two planes left, then Grumman will be out of Naval Aviation. So sad.

The team directors are blaming the motorcycle.

I’ve been in races where pedestrians have wondered on to the closed course and have been hit. Guess who’s at fault, not the cyclist.

Obviously you never raced in a bike race. You are allowed to use the entire road as determined by the race organizers. People will pull out of the pack like that all the time because support vehicles aren’t supposed to move through the pack at that kind of speed.

Not according to the rule book, all vehicles have to yield to the riders.

It is not on the cyclist. UCI rules basically state that the riders have the right of way. All vehicles have to yield to the riders as to not assist or impede their progress.

Cost - plus = project creep. AF will define what they want now, Northrup builds what the AF wants, AF then wants more capabilities, Northrup adds capabilities in, AF wants more, Northrup adds more, Senate asks Northrup how much it going to cost and freaks out that it is now 10x the cost and blames Northrup for being…