According to Wikipedia 'The Sunday Times' is a tabloid. The 'Malaysian investigators' quoted by the rag were not identified so could be anybody from Charlie Chan to Charlie Tuna. And all airline crews know their future flying schedule — usually a month in advance. So his 'professional plans' were pretty much…

This same concept should be applied to 'all you can eat' buffet joints. I got tired of friggin subsidizing fat people. The management ought to have scale at the check in area and charge according to weight. Presently I pay the same as a 270lb pig face and I only eat about half of what they gulf down. Yup, I just…

The cold war accurately depicted with the 'real cold war' airframes.

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Don't know what it is now, but when I retired in 2008 as a pilot, the per diem at one of the top 3 US major airlines was only 1.90/hour which is less than $50/day. Don't know where you get your 'often' figure.

Have to correct my above post. Dumping 50,000lbs fuel could save you 25,000lbs in fuel burn((5% penalty/hour). But it's still much less wasteful to carry the payload fuel.

I have to waive the BS flag on this one. Unless you're talking a 'Q' model KC-135 (for refueling SR-71s), the 'payload' fuel on a regular tanker is available to burn for it's own engines. Yes, fuel burn increases with the weight of the extra or uneeded fuel, but never to the point that you will save fuel by dumping…

I do believe that all FedEx DC-10s have been converted to MD-10s, which is a cockpit upgrade to glass and 2 pilot operation. I think they now call them 'MD-10s'.

You, of course, like everybody else in these postings, are talking about men's soccer. Women's soccer on the other hand, invalidates 90% of these holier than though posts.

I have to agree with ya. Look at the whole photo. During my 20 years of flying fighters, never saw a 2 ship refueling with this type of formation. The top F-15 pilot can't even see the tanker which makes me question the safety aspect of it. Of course he could be pulling up abruptly for a photo op, or else there is…

I'm a retired US international airline pilot and I have to agree with the one pilot that said most are too tired to make the effort to hook up. Not only that, but the flight attendants who bid international on US carriers are the senior ones, well along in age and with families. There's not much to get excited…

There've been numerous reports that ATT can detect this procedure and have slapped the hands of the subscriber.

You're right..I thought the low radar signature was due to wood design. But my premise is correct. This is straight from your linked wikipedia description:

Back in the 80's, the South Korea air defense and the US forces there worried about the AN-2s bringing in commando's to try and blow up defenses. It's basically a WOOD airframe and was very hard to pick up on radar. I'm sure since then, radars have improved but I bet the defense forces still think about it.

Land speed records are based on ground speed not airspeed, so I would guess that the index marker of Mach 1 on the gauge only approximates the mach based on a selected atmospheric conditions. The driver probably wants to know when approaching Mach 1 because the aerodynamics of his vehicle will change somewhat, but…

Marines retired the OV-10 around 1995.

I have to disagree. 'Drunk drivers, teens..." etc would still be a major problem if they were controlling their cars (no automation). The major accidents in bumper to bumper is rear end collisions. Your automated car could not prevent the asshole from slamming into your rear unless your car is engineered to…

You said it right in your blurb that taking "two computers on the road ..next to each other". This would most likely significantly decrease the probability of those two cars colliding with each other. The problem involves mixing non-computer cars with automation as there will still be drunks and idiots on the road…

The top picture is an F-5E which no fighter pilot would ever call a 'T-38'. The two seat trainer version was F-5F. The F-5E was indeed a derivative of Northrup's T-38 but had much more capability and handling characteristics.

All US carriers require landing runway length to be long enough to stop without using thrust reversers. Russian carriers probably require similar, so other factors are in play here.