Poke a hole in it? Poke a HOLE in it? POKE A HOLE IN IT?

Is that Aboo in the back seat?

Various WWII night-ops planes had to have shrouds on their (very) short-stack exhausts to hide the flames. A daylight-ops plane (Mosquito, IIRC) replaced the shrouds with “ejectors” which apparently provided enough extra thrust to up the top speed by something like 20 knots.

I believe the Navy’s slogan for the program is

Sadly, the laws of physics still apply in Turkey.

I want to add to this that modern (i.e. fast) wings are particularly sensitive to icing on the leading edge and upper-forward portion of the wing. An amazingly small scum of ice in those area can fatally impair the airflow, ESPECIALLY in high-lift configurations, such as landing and takeoff. But who cares about those,…

Aircraft are tested in exactly this way before certification. I have seen an A-320, for instance, with all the main tires flat from the melt-plugs blowing out from braking heat, and a CV-990 (like a B-707) completely destroyed by fire after the magnesium rims ignited. I can’t remember the numbers, but the cert test…

A certain C.L., eh?

Jealousy. I have it.