The TPE331 has only two support bearings, one at the nose of the compressor section and one trailing at the back of the turbine section. That's a lot of unsupported shaft and hence the bow. PT6s, IIRC, have an intermediate bearing in the middle and thus no shaft bow.

You turn the prop by hand 3 to 4 revolutions to locate, by feel, any high resistance point in the case of "shaft bow" or any unusual sounds or clunks. It also circulates enough air through the engine to prevent heat soaking the shaft and bowing it.

"I've never understood why they had to hand prop the thing."

Yeah, but the KA200 has a bunch of pilot assists for just this occasion: Autofeather and rudder boost. Autofeather quickly feathers the inop engine to a low-drag configuration, and rudder boost automatically assist with 50 lbs of rudder pedal into the running engine. King Airs are considered fairly benign on single…

Same landing gear as the S-3, another LTV subcontract.

You do know the Minuteman is solid-fueled, right?

Looks like a half-assed "for sale" effort.

Sorry, disagree. The mid-engine Maserati Bora was definitely a GT and not a supercar. Ditto the Pantera.

Actually, wrong coast. There are at least a dozen of these in Santa Barbara/Montecito. All of them are in great shape. Almost like the owners know this was the last of a breed and therefore doing their utmost to keep them cherry. I still love my 96 purchased new.

I think the controller was warning him not to overshoot the turn to final for 28C and drift into the extended centerline for 28R. He was VFR in amongst all that IFR traffic.

If they do to Triumph what they did to Mini, then I hope not.

Wrong model Vantage. This is more like it:

I see that weekly when service people in uniform don't board first, even though they can.

I'll see you that and raise you: Let's paint dem B-1s pink and give them all-female crews. Take that ISIS, bombed to smithereens by "gurls".

Identifying a Mach 3 sea-skimmer is exactly what the SPS-48 is designed to do. I know. My dad designed it back in the 1960s. Phased array, multiple pencil beam tech way back then just for this occcasion. The radar's sea-clutter filter is still highly classified. The AEGIS-derived fleet air defense radar on the…

I think it's just an additional dollop of "Fuck You ISIS" on top of putzing around in circles overhead waiting for them to pop their pointy heads out.

What's insane about the B-1B is the plane's *density*. The thing is crammed with stuff behind every plate, door, and panel. Max takeoff is, what, almost 500,000 lbs? Like I said, dense.

Bullshit. Women CEOs volunteered, knew exactly what they were signing up for, and are well compensated for the career risk they're taking. Part of being a CEO/Leader is dealing with the periodic shitstorm. If you can't conduct your own due diligence and then accept responsibility for the situation as it exists,…

Next door neighbor had one in the late 60s. Would offer us kids waiting for the bus a ride to school on his way to work. Insane in every aspect. Hell, I even remember the smell of that Rosser leather that felt like it was a inch thick. The windows were like guillotines. And that 6.3 was so slow turning the damned…

Actually, Tyler's ole favorite, the S-3 would be an idea platform provided Lockheed would spiff up the airframe a bit. Those TF/CF34s are amazing engines with plenty of manufacturer support, and the airframe comes mission-ready with plenty of rack space, power, bleed air (okay, not "plenty", but adequate), ejection…