In my "previous life" as an engineer at Sikorsky, I did a lot of work on this rotor system. The forgings for the rotor hub and sleeves were unfathomably huge and heavy for rotorcraft parts. We had pictures of the first 6-4 titanium hub forging still glowing red hot on the floor and it looked like something fired in…
Bah humbug.
Roger B. has to be the winner. Not a single vehicle that came out during his tenure was launched properly, designed properly, or built properly. Not one.
I'm sure this poster is intelligent, but after reading his comment, and skimming through it a second time, I'm not sure how.
How do you go about moving the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft — one of the world's largest planes — through city streets?…
fly big d, fly.
Had this been one of the more prevalent 2 engine planes we would be reading about 93 dead people. This is why when I fly I try to always get on a 747.
I occasionally ponder the twists of fate that left me with two Saabs that both have their ignitions on the steering column. And no, neither is a 9-2X, or even GM-era.
These fuckers are also responsible for many people losing their keys under the seats, hence the elbow patches on tweed jackets.
Lane splitting at a traffic light or heavy slow traffic is great for me, the four wheeled aficionado who doesn't ride the two wheeled conveyances.
What if you could take a modern DSLR camera back in time to shoot war planes? The military aviation photography…
MLP is a "permissive" environment platform when the Navy (really Joint Force) have created localized air and maritime superiority and countered or significantly degraded enemy CDCM capability.
A good friend and fellow aviation photographer Paul Carter captured the Navy's new floating sea base right as it…