I’ve driven the TorchBug.

By charging baggage check fees and allowing free carry-ons, some airlines have incentivized us to eschew the least valuable cargo space on the plane (in the belly) and use up the most valuable cargo space on the plane (in the passenger compartment).

Baggage check fees. Because this has created an environment where people attempt to take far too much as carry on. And thus my small backpack never has a space in the overhead.

A “capital ship” is the centerpiece of a fleet. Literally the same as how a capital city is the center of a state. It’s where leadership is located and the escorts around it exist mainly to support the mission of the capital ship. Unlike escorts, they are almost never commanded by anything less than a captain.

Our Wasp and America class ships (40k and 45k tons respectively) are the size of WW II fleet carriers (Essex class was 33k tons, and Midway class was 45k tons, though not completed before the end of the war. The Japanese Shinano was 65k tons, but it’s an oddity as was originally intended to be a Yamato class…

A Wasp-class LHD amphip is larger than most other countries fixed wing carriers. So Yes. Capital ships they are. Especially for a country that doesnt have anything close to that size.

The Sa’ar 5 is a much bigger ship than the Egyptian one that got hit, so it’s not shocking that it’s less damaged.

I suppose technically they’re aircraft carriers, since helicopters are “aircraft” — but it’s a misleading term here.

Yep, that was supposed to be “over”

I have a pretty 14 year old daughter, so I find adding a spade quite useful at times.

You would have been better served by reading and not commenting, than by commenting and not reading.

I was surprised that step one wasn’t “Make sure you’re filming in landscape mode.”

Only if they’re non responsive.

I see you left out “Go through their pockets for valuables.”

Tyler,

I didn’t realized how small it was until I noticed this door.

Even the aircraft’s gold plated canopy and use of composites structures are all major techniques widely in use today to lower a manned aircraft’s radar signature.

A decade later, McDonnell Douglas Model 226-458 Quiet Attack Aircraft (QAA) of 1974, a project sponsored by the Office of Naval Research.

Build it just big enough to carry a SDB and enough gear to be a wild weasel.

“But Boeing just exclusively provided Foxtrot Alpha with a trove of photos and information for the very first time.”