In many, many situations, having a career mindset is a function of the current work environment. You go to school until your early 20s, rack up debt, all in pursuit of entering your chosen field. The average debt taken on now takes over ten years to pay off in most cases. Why do the new workers do this? Current…

In point of fact, Malaysian Pennant number 26 is a Katsuri class corvette (pictured, built in Germany). They currently feature the 57mm Boffers as their main gun, though they originally had a 100mm gun mounted forward. If Tyler is referring to their Leiku class frigates, they also have the 57mm Boffers DP gun. Their…

The YF-17 was developed to be a dog-fighter in the same vein as the F-16 and previous highly agile fighters. The F/A-18 is a ruggedized and heavily modified version of the YF-17 that trades a lot of its lightness and some of its nimbleness for being a better bomb truck that can still handle the medium range intercept…

That’s easy! Don’t be white. Or, even better, don’t be white and male. Really, short of suicide, there’s nothing that you can do that will be construed as “right”.

Seems like a great role for the Textron AirLand Scorpion...

Gawd, that was so beautiful, it brought a tear to me wee eye.

A while back, Iran was tooting their horn about an indigenous air defense system that they had put together with shoe strings and bailing wire. It looked to me like it was nothing more than squads of guys armed with 20mm cannons mounted on monopods that would be detached to areas where they could get a few clear shots…

Threading in kinda comment sections leaves a lot to be desired. I was just trying to add to the discussion for all.

While I’M a huge fan of the US aviation industry, I won’t engage in any home homerism here. My condolences go out to the families of the deceased, and I offer my prayers for a speedy recovery to the two survivors. Flying is a risky business at times, being a test pilot many multiples so. I salute those brave souls…

And counter-rotating is different from contra-rotating props where the props share a common rotational axis, but spin in opposite directions. This can be accomplished with a single engine and a gear box or with two separate engines with concentric shafts. For a current example, witness the bear bomber from the USSR…

While I agree that they all should be held to a much higher standard then the rest of us, I would like it if they were AT THE VERY LEAST held to the SAME standards as the rest of us.

Which is a shame (no buyers), the price that Boeing was offering the Silent Eagle at was around $100 million, fully dressed, with support. The lowest recent price that I’ve seen the F-35 on offer for was in the $125 million range, and that price doesn’t include anywhere near the level of support that the Silent Eagle…

After a year, this article still holds up well. The F-35, while steadily moving forward with getting into full production and deployment, still isn’t a fully baked system, and isn’t scheduled to be for many years to come. The Advanced Super Hornet would go much further to meeting the RCAF’s primary goals, and allows…

Tyler, perhaps you could write a quick follow on article on the F-15SE silent eagle and it’s complete failure in the export market and it’s half way there version, the F-15SA for Saudi Arabia, which kept the digital FBW and some other performance upgrades. It’s a shame that Canada won’t even consider a squadron of the…

Down here in Louisiana, save for a couple of specific cities, you have an anual inspection sticker that’s around $10-$15, and a vehicle registration that’s roughly less than 1% of the vehicles book value, commonly less than $100, and good for two years. No emissions testing that I’ve come across either.

Trust me, you don’t want those Hollywood vampires any f*ck*ng where near your state. In Louisiana, the state has basically sold its soul and first born to become Hollywood south and they are basically sucking the state dry. They setup studios in old warehouses, brought in their trucks and trailers and vans, and hired…

I think that, part of the issue with the whole case was a bit of prosecutorial over-reach. He did a lot of fundamentally illegal things in making his plans to do those horrific things that he imagined doing. Actions such as accessing a police database for non-case related reasons already have their own easily…

Over the summer, take a good, hard look at the Ford Transit 12 and 15 passenger vans that will be coming off the rental circuit. They are going to be some Excellent deals and are not bad places to spend time. Got to nose around one in Florida a month ago and talked to the rental manager about it.

Ford’s marketing decisions with the Transit Connect Wagon LWB are just downright crazy. Base price is in the range of decently equipped volume models of the Grand Caravan. Add the convenience package, and you’re gently caressing the Sienna CE and Odyssey LX base prices with nowhere near the features of those vans. Go…

Also has the Stennis space center in South Mississippi named after him...