Cowboy.... I’ve bought two Ferrari’s directly off the dealership showroom floor.

Tyler......TYLER, I’m shocked......

Looks awfully familiar... Hang another vertical stabilizer on the Typhoon and increase the intake size in order to have the ability to smuggle small cars inside, and they are very similar. Yet the similarity ends in design. It is lost in quality of build. Russians often talk about how tough their aircraft are. I…

Thank you, Jim. However your use of “was” concerning JW is a bit premature. John Warner is alive and well. I also find what “the duckster” wrote to be offensive. Not in the crybaby sense of being offended that gets tossed all over these days. But in a very distinct way.

Blazej... perhaps the boom operator doesn’t aboard a KC... But someone aboard the gas truck does. Every jet has it’s own ability to take on fuel as a prescribed rate. If the jet has inert gas purged tanks the fuel can only be pumped as fast as that gas can be vented to storage. It is a very balanced system that you…

Sure does... Probe & Drogue fuel is passed through a flexible hose. They cannot pump too much pressure into the hose because it until the aircraft engaged the poppet valve by hooking up, the hose would be rigid just like...well... You what happens to dudes high pressure Johnson hoses when subjected to a high pressure…

I cannot speak for all of the targeting imagery. Particularly the long vertical line bisecting the triangles and how they are stacked (multiple targets identified in one AO.) But I can speak to the triangles. Triangular target markers are a visual reference to the pilot or weapon system operators (WiSO’s) giving him…

It’s a damned shame also. Most of those fleets have brand spanking new aircraft and they are top end birds with great power. There are crews flying domestic routes in the US in 25 year old 757’s and 767’s with more up & downs then a $2 whore or shot out 737-200’s with low bypass turbo tubes flying back and forth…

Yeah, fuel becomes a consideration. But more likely than not, the two divert fields were experiencing conditions that were either already similar to the primary or deteriorating. If that is the conditions a pilot finds themselves. Then it’s time to run your landing checklist. Make your cabin calls and get everyone…

Please forgive a couple grammatical errors as well as replacing a Maverick with a Maverick.... I didn’t grease the Keyboard Flux-Capacitor or spin up the mouse turbo’s before touching the piece off.....

I never had the opportunity to deploy an AGM-114 Hellfire. They were used on some aircraft, mostly Rotary. But they can be launched by slower fixed wing aircraft, drones, AC-130W’s. Hell, they even used to mount them on Beechcraft Super King Air twin turboprops. But they don’t come of the rail fast enough to be…

I don’t wish to appear pessimitic, Indeed, I hope that shorty aftr the F-15E aircraft entered Mokhtar Belmokhta’s AO and were given the weapons free order, Mokhtar Belmokhta’s existance went from scared rat in a corner to “Pink Mist” in rapid succesions, But if the bad guys have been so fast have been so to report…

I’m fortunate enough to have left the Air Force with enough years in (26) to have made some great friends. Many of who still fly the Air Force’s big stuff and fighters. I was tapped for an opportunity to make a move out of the F-16C after 9 years. It was a perfect time to extend my career by 20 years and go plant my…

Very small wing area for a 4 engine jet. It gets a ton of extra lift off the Flap design.... But I’d like to see that wing root about six feet wider and with more wing fusalege blending.

jlnbos .... Your statement..... “

Good stuff, thanks for the great work....

I’m not buying it with good reason. I believe sometimes these so called reports (I am NOT laying this at Tyler’s feet in any way) are put out there by writes who forget there are former military pilots like myself, who never flew an F-35 Lightning II, but did fly F-16 C & D’s.... along with the F-15- C variant. And…

There are two technology’s that cost the The Northrop XST in the long haul. And interestingly enough, they’re the same technology’s that China and Russia still struggle with and why Russia lags behind and China stole them.

As many times as I have heard people speak of utopian peace and the end of war and conflict. I listen but what I hear is something that simply doesn’t relate to how humanity defines itself. Consider how we have chosen to set our marks in times linier progression. Consider the modivation behind our greatest…

My 1st 911 was a 1969 911 Targa S. I still call it the most beautiful car I ever owned. Black on Black, 2.0 liter 6 carb air cooled. The Targa had the B-pillar that wrapped all the way over the top. It allowed the top from the windshield to B-pillar to be removed. The rear glass wrapped up all the way to the Pillar…