Why would you restart an engine on final? The PT-6 in the King Air has sufficient single engine capability to continue the approach and even perform a miss, easily. Also, the PT-6 has counter-rotating gas producer and power turbine sections. I don’t buy it.

Still the finest automobile of all time.

I’m partial to the 850CSi. Everything falls to hand perfectly. And the wood is a nice touch.

That last picture is the southbound PCH about 1/2 mile north of the Trancas light. I seriously doubt the CHP sanctioned anything along that stretch of state highway.

As my instructor noted, “dampers” are what you put up a chimney. Seriously, either is grammatically correct and the manufacturers use both.

Please post a picture or diagram of a “flapping hinge dampener”. Also, in case you don’t know, the 206 isn’t a fully articulated rotor head. Semi-rigid rotor heads don’t require dampening since they don’t lead-lag. The flap restraint, to which you refer, is a spring-loaded, centrifugally-activated mechanical stop to…

Please avail yourself to some rotorcraft texts. On a fully articulated rotor system, the dampeners are there to limit and dampen motions in the lead-lag hinge due to Corriolis effect. This is caused by the blade flapping which is caused, in turn, by advancing/retreating blade aerodynamics (i.e., disymmetry of lift).…

I dunno. GTS’s are damned rare. I wouldn’t have the heart to turn one of those into a “lump”.

Yup, retreating blade descends and lags.

It’s continuous once the aircraft crosses the sound barrier. Imagine a cone trailing the aircraft. As that cone hits the ground, boom!

Funny, I thought it was an air-cooled Night Rod.

This clown has a reservation waiting at SuperMax.

“We sank a truck!”

It’s a courtesy flag flown in port of call. It appears to be on the wrong yardarm, though.

Yeah, it’s not like they’d take over an embassy and hold folks hostage for 444 days. These are *rational* people.

Yeah, they already have two Kim portraits plastered on every living room wall in NK. With three, folks are going to start asking some obvious questions.

The vertical stabilizer/rudder has huge lever arm given the overall length of the fuselage. That’s why the 747SP had a *larger* vertical stab than the -200 since the overall length of the SP’s fuselage was shorter.

Wow. I’m now glad my 12 bucks went, at least in a small part, to this guy.

The most “Un-Harley” Harley you can get.

Isn’t the method of compression still the big secret to thermonukes? Ablation versus radiation pressure? My understanding of the need for surfboard foam was, being hydrocarbon based, it was transparent to the immense x-ray flux needed to compress the secondary.