This is more or less correct. It’s not about a pressure differential involving the airfoil, it’s about the design of the leading edge.

Please show me the ad hominem I used. Really. Show which statement you believe to be an “ad hominem”. Your last comment is the biggest example of that in the entire thread.

I have no interest in seeing Ted Cruz compare himself to Ronald Reagan. Every conservative candidate does it, have of it involves blatant lying/misrepresentation, and I frankly don’t care.

I almost hope 3rd world countries just super glue their rotor heads on or something

Yeah, I don’t think anyone would refer to Libya under Qaddafi as a US “ally”, unless you mean sharing intelligence about Sunni terrorists, which, for that matter, Syria and Iran and Russia did as well.

Scariest part: even on the modern S-70 series, they hand tighten the damned thing.

The absolute worst stories of Hueys I have ever heard involve the shaft knocking...

The idea that aircraft wings generate lift via Bernoulli’s Principle is actually a myth...

Well, as long as you don’t lose the Jesus nut, you can autorotate, which is like a fast parachute.

How does one create an airsoft MLRS!?

If the Beretta safety is so annoying, there’s always the 92G/96G, the version they made for the French national gendarmerie.

For awhile, the same Russian factory that made the actual Makarov PM pistol (yes, that’s redundant) manufactured Makarov BB guns on essentially slightly doctored receivers, complete with “magazines” comprising a stick of BBs and a CO2 chamber made from the shells of actual Makarov magazines. IIRC, eventually Bubba…

I think most objective observers would say Obama is less hawkish and less of “a warmonger” than Dubya. Not that I’m putting a value judgment on it either way, necessarily.

Russian airsofters? Or “indigenous ethnic Russian militia members” in the Donbass?

Not sure “incredibly conservative” is correct. Foxtrot Alpha (and to a lesser degree, Jalopnik) is certainly a more conservative readership than the rest of Gawker, but I’m not sure that’s saying much.

I used to have a very nice airsoft M-14. Wonder what happened to it.

1000s of sorties per day — even if it were realistic — is a good way to kill a lot of civilians, “smart bombs” or not. Especially if you’re hitting “every target in an area”, and especially among a population that’s being basically held hostage by these guys. And when was the last time a strategy like that even…

No, I’m talking about Andrew Jackson. Not a good look. Though I’m not a big fan of Wilson either, and FDR went in some very unconstitutional directions.

Not that you’re biased at all.

Delusions are fun