I'm actually laughing out loud. :) I'm pretty sure I went all two years onboard without ever seeing the jackstaff. (flagpole at the front of the ship)

I was on NIMITZ until a year ago, and funny thing, when you board the ship it's traditional to salute the flag (national) before boarding. On a carrier there is no…

Totally deserves it... but it's still a museum ship. Belongs in the same league with Constitution.

Oldest US ship that actually does anything tactical is the mighty USS Nimitz, CVN 68. It was Enterprise, CVN65, but she decommissioned a couple of years ago.

An APU is an auxilary power unit. Really it's a tiny turbo shaft engine that's generally used to turn a generator and make compressed air. (Turbo Shaft is a type of jet where as much energy as possible is converted into mechanical torque, instead of high speed exhaust. They're used extensively on helicopters, and…

-It's funny - top speed is mostly a function of the shape of the airframe and the pitch of the propeller.
-Doubling, or even tripling the HP actually makes a pretty negligible difference in cruise speed. However, what power will do for you is massively shorten your takeoff roll and increase your rate of climb. …

The 1100 (yes, that was one-thousand, one hundred) HP primary trainer I learned to fly in would like to have a word with you about "Mind-Bending" HP.

BTW... that was 1100, derated from 1400.

As a point of comparison: I later flew the Beech King Air 90 - an 8 passenger mini-airliner. It has 2 550HP PT-6 engines. Same…

Maybe they're original tires? ;)

Perhaps it's the remains of a burnout?

It's just the heat exchangers ritually purging themselves. ;)

If you're truly driving an old 911, bug, bus, or any other air cooled horizontally opposed engine - then smoking on start and for a few minutes is totally normal.

Paint it like a shuttlecraft and you've got a sale at asking price! ;)

Totally CP... yet I still kind of dig it. For $1500 I could probably go NP.

I find your lack of ailerons... disturbing.

Back in the day, it wasn't a "handbrake," it was an "emergency brake." A great thing because it gave you an option if you somehow ran out of brake fluid.

I don't know what that is, but it's beautiful.

NO NO NO!

NO!

Lightweight also.

1. Air Cooling

When considering power vs. weight, there are some cars that clearly didn't live up: