You're misinformed. The HU-25 was equipped with one of the wildest turbofans of all time: The Garrett/Honeywell ATF-3. Look at the back of the HU-25's engine. See a tailpipe? Nope.

Turboprop aircraft are required to have a pressure sensing switch and warning light or EICAS message indicating whenever the cabin pressure climbs above 12,500 feet. Step 1 in that case is DON YOUR OXYGEN MASK IN FULL DEMAND MODE. Then figure out what's the situation. Also, you don't wait for ATC to clear you…

It's not on airport property or have an "airside". It's simply a set of industrial buildings on Chermak Street which backs onto BUR. It's not a hangar.

Don't get it do you? One more time. Airport Improvement Fund, paid for by various federal aviation taxes. Funds the FAA and the majority of airports for improvements like runways, lights, terminals, and yes, hangars. You guys bitch about the Feds, but they're the only reason Santa Monica airport is still open…

You can if your hangar is at a non-federally funded airport. Once an airport authority dips into the Airport Improvement Fund, you're the FAA's bitch.

Amen. Who knew "Global Thermonuclear War" could be so cool looking.

Honeywell and Collins have had ring gyros for decades in commercial service. These devices are being replaced by much cheaper and less fussy fiber ring gyros and hemispherical resonator gyros all the way down to Cessna 172s. The MEMS devices are used as accelerometers, not rate gyros.

If the odo says 22K, it means 222K. The 107s had 5 digit odometers. I had an SEL 4.5 for 17 years. Great car, but the smog-era 4.5 V-8 drank gas. Figure 12 mpg around town.

A measley R44? Try an Agusta A109. Much, much cooler:

Did a little offline research and the X-47B uses a newly installed JPALS setup specifically designed for support autoland for UAVs on the carrier. Upgraded data link between the UAV and the carrier. CVN-71 (Roosevelt) and 77 (Bush) are the two ships so equipped, and they're the only two operating the X-47B. That…

Aren't these all Mode I ALCS approaches? I can't image why a UAV would fly an overhead approach. Mixing these in with humans is going to be interesting.

Keep flying that toy, kiddo, and stay out of the real things.

"We make helicopters AND guitars!"

Yes, but with the addition of a "yellow box" that tricked the ECU you could hit the car's true top speed. YouTube has a bunch of a stock 850CSi hitting 300 kph on the Autobahn.

Uh, Buicks, Caddies, and Lincolns don't do 185 mph. In fact, everything else from BMW in the 90s didn't either.

Actually, discussing ATC communications is a worthy subject on a board with cars/autos in that it underscore the need for clear communications and precise readbacks. I, as a pilot, am used to this. 99% of my working compadres are not and thus I'm always pinging them to "read back" instructions, or at least…

You're kidding, right. At 300,000 kilometers per second, or thereabouts, there's plenty of time to "ping" repeatedly. It's really more a function of the pulse repetition rate of the radar's electronics and the speed at which the phased array beam can be steered. Since it's all operating in the gigahertz range…

Uh, given the interminable wait for jackass travelers to grab all the crap out of the overhead and trundle forward to the ONE exit, I'd kill to use one of these back stairs babies. I boarded and exited DC-9s and 727 in the 70s this way. I wouldn't call it stupid.

Last of the jet you could reasonably fly without the hydraulic boost operating and only rely on the control cables transmitting the yoke forces to control tabs on the surfaces. DC was supposed to stand for Douglas Commercial, but really means "direct cable"

"Span loaders", i.e., flying wings, are the most efficient air vehicle. The traditional tail ("empennage") is there only to provide dynamic stability using that long lever arm and the horizontal stabilizer to counteract the designed-in nose-down trim of the wing. Obviously it's complicated, but Jack Northrup had it…