Nah. Tired airframes. They went through one SLEP already. Time for a new airframe and some newer technologies. Maybe an cut-down avionics port job from the P-8.

Time to spin up the carrier-based S-4 program. Same general specifications as the S-3 with all new avionics and latest generation CF-34s.

Ingrate! Our nukes are *made* in Amarillo, TX. "Pantex" ring any bells?

This is all emotion. Fairchild Republic is long gone. Restarting a production line? You kidding? And even restoring tooling for major structural parts is going to costs hundreds of millions. With the retirement of the S-3, support for the TF-34 engine must be getting expensive as well.

Rolls Royce hits vulgarity bedrock, keeps digging.

Single rotor helos are limited by *retreating* blade stall.

Still one of the most beautiful shapes to grace the sky. Looks even better when flying without the pod. Those J-79 nacelles with aerospikes look so cool.

Yeah, they've got to F-35 it to death first.

Uh, it's their private property. U.S. roads like UP and BNSF are forced into carrying Amtrak across it, albeit not on a priority basis. If you want priority, buy the road like Caltrans did out here in SoCal for Metrorail.

Santa Monica Boulevard is part of the old Route 66, and thus bisects Beverly Hills.

Airframe designed and built in Downey, California using hypersonic research from the X-15. Engines courtesy of Rocketdyne of Canoga Park, California. The only reason Houston Texas is involved with NASA is that bloviating jackass Lyndon Johnson.

Rogoway laments the passing of Aircraft X, which is so much simpler, better, and cheaper than Y, but the real fact is the *company* that built aircraft X no longer exists. A-10 = Fairchild, S-3 Viking = Lockheed California, OV-10 = NAA. The real tragedy isn't the passing of some great aircraft, but the great…

Hell, forget the OV-10, bring back North American.

Kudos to SoCal Approach for clearing all that Class B airspace.

Low pressure area over the engine bay causes the moist air to flash into fog. Notice it only happens when he's on the throttle? Aircraft do the same on humid days - a local low pressure zone over the wing as it's generating lift.

The transmission is an amazing piece of engineering. No planetary reduction geartrain, just two simple gear meshes. Flight loads are taken by a hollow mast attached to the helo with the rotor drive shaft passing through. Brilliant design.

Well, the Jesuits run the largest *network* of private colleges and universities in the U.S. This includes Georgetown, Fordham, Boston College, Marquette, Creighton, Gonzaga and a bunch of others. So everybody else has a *long* way to go. Hell, the Jesuits also run the largest network of private high schools as…

Utter nonsense. I've owned an 92 850i for 20 years and it's been utterly reliable. Yeah, little shit breaks/wears-out on a repeated schedule (water pumps, thrust arm bushings, door handles), but that's nowhere near $5K per year. There were a bunch of one-time problems (intake manifold gaskets), but they were…

I wouldn't call a mid-air where everybody walks away "horrific". Two planes bit the dust while performing some risky flying.

Actually, it does. Along with hundreds of other loathsome subjects.