As I read the news they came within about a mile of the Reagan, flying at about 500 ft.

I'd go for Panther. Yeah, it's been used before, but just seems appropriate. Dark, silent, and utterly lethal.

It’s garnered about the same amount of positive press as the F-22 did, until the Raptor production was cancelled.

“Logano is obligated to then brake,...”

I was going to make a reply to Tyler’s article, but you beat me to it, almost every point I was going to make. Only difference was my wife and I got to watch a shuttle launch (Atlantis, May ‘10) as part of our 30th anniversary.

Hornets are FBW, so the stick inputs *shouldn't* change based on atmospherics. That's one of the big advantages of these kinds of flight control systems (personally know that's the F-16 design philosophy), I assume F-18's the same.

Well, I don’t have the knowledge you ask for, and those that do couldn’t tell you anything that’s not in the public domain. But those photos remind me a lot of the F-16 production line, which was implemented in the late 70s/early 80s.

APU is common for several reasons. #1, provides emergency power (electrical, hydraulic, *and* cooling), #2, self-contained startup capability. Also can be used for austere maintenance.

To use a “stock” chassis, gotta go back to the 50s at least. Cars were modified/strengthened/stiffened way, Way, WAYYY back in NASCAR history.

Except it’s not street legal and looks like a hot wheels with a vacuum-formed top.

Each state has their own set of rules that you have to meet to get an individually-built vehicle licensed. I'm sure there are variations on those requirements, but if they can license them out in Kalifornia they can probably be licensed in all states.

Some of the tooling may have survived, but I personally saw many jigs dismantled by government direction. Obviously the knowledge is there somewhere, but those production jigs have to be rebuilt, CNC machines re-purchased, composite material plugs/molds re-conditioned (those are the pieces I hope were saved), etc.

Another great article, Tyler! Especially the additional links to some of our favorite projects (hadn’t seen the Have Blue test flights video before).

Sure. The distributor just acts as the crank trigger and the cap/rotor selects the cylinder to fire.

POGO is not exactly a bastion of objectiveness, either. F-22, anything Boeing makes, actually anything made by contractors and used by the military is evil-incarnate.

Tyler, is this the actual proposal that Boeing is putting forth? Reason I ask is that the configuration shown looks like a ferry setup, where the birds ferry their own initial loadouts to an austere location. But it’s not a combat setup, because the missiles (AIM-120s shown, I assume) don’t launch out on rails but are…

He did, but the announcers made a point of saying that the drivers have been rolling into the start gates for several racers without penalty, to the point that the drivers have been asking for a rules interpretation on the issue.

Which is why they use nitrogen (I think) in the tires. Eliminates the humidity variable in ambient atmosphere. Not just the phase change for any humidity that condenses and then vaporizes, but also the latent heat of water.

They received news of the potential violation.

You mean other than the shuttles?