I think there's a lot of good to come from studying things like Alcubierre/White drives. They are unlikely to actually work, but that doesn't actually matter at all. When we understand WHY they don't work, we'll be that much closer to coming up with something that does.

The Soviet Union had some amazing achievements in aviation, but sadly most are forgotten in the Western World because of the Cold War. In 1935 the ANT-25 designed by Andrei Tupolev set a distance record by flying from Moscow, over the North Pole, across all of Canada, and finally landing near Portland, OR. 3 people,…

I wouldn't listen to that album for literally years because it bothered me so much to see a Plymouth Voyager with the caption El Camino.

I'm totally onboard with "horizontally opposed". It's a good descriptive phrase that sadly hasn't caught on as a standard. Probably because of confusion with the very obscure " true H" engine you found.

how about "flappy paddle?"

did a bit of reading and crankshaft gazing... Thanks for making the distinction!

By the definitions I read, my 911 is a true boxer motor. Nifty! ☺

I was reading that about flat vs. Boxer. I learned something today. ☺

Subaru doesn't make an H4 - they make a flat 4, or a boxer 4.

Just wait until 3 cylinder engines hit the mainstream!

"Hey bro, what you got under the hood?"

It's an automatic AND a manual!

It was a Russian car... made in Soviet times, and it was brake drums.

Sorry, I've been pushing heavy metal for the last few years. (Navy P-3s)

ask Doug Demuro about that depreciation. It sounds like he's breaking even on modern exotics.

Pilot made an oopsie.... Sunbather made a nearly life ending decision. Sunbather gets my vote for being dumber.

Definitely a failure of ORM on the part of the sunbather.

Even the best pilots make mistakes sometimes. In my flight training they taught you to look for these kinds of situations early and that "go arounds" are free (unless you're out of gas.) In layman's terms: if it doesn't look safe, just power up, climb to a safe altitude, and try again.

I choose to think that he was practising his short field technique and got a bit carried away. (At least I hope so!) If not, then that's a really poor regular approach!

I hear from reliable sources that boats are holes in the water that you pour money into... however, I only have firsthand experience with airplanes... I don't know how any mortal affords even the simplest of certified aircraft*. My dad had to do a Airworthiness Directive (AD) fix on his Cessna 195 for aileron hinge…

I can also work on my car without a special license. My dad is a pilot with a full Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) certificate also - it was necessary for his younger life as a bush pilot first in Africa then in Alaska. He couldn't afford to own a plane without being able to do his own work, and neither can I.

I'm just…