We must now ban the Chinese from coming to this country as well, sad!

Given how far behind China is on engines, I’m not even sure she would know if she had good info. DOD should have slipped her some bogus drawings and let the Chinese wast time and money to figure out they got duped.

I just imagine her hanging around outside Air Force bases like kids trying to by alcohol “Hey man, you going to work on F-35s? You think you could maybe hook me up with an extra engine?”

Somehow it’s been twisted into meaning that in the general populace, but the goal of golf is to score less.

This is clearly the wrong decision. The F-35 scores extremely poorly in the relevant “Internet armchair generals who read that one article once and likes the jet with the big gun that goes BRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPTTTT” category. Its just science!

I hope not. I don’t want to see my TV start rusting out in the first three years of use.

All the fanboys and fangirls need to stop holding their breaths. Nissan will not do anything exciting or interesting. They’ll just let you all die a slow and agonizing death by poisoning you with bland-mobiles.

This is the first “new” SR71 story I have read in several years. Thank you!

This is a PROFOUNDLY stupid design for an unmanned VTOL aircraft. It’s complexity for the sake of complexity - not one tilting wing, but two, a turboshaft/electric drive system, and twenty four dinky little low efficiency (because they’re small, and there are so damn many of them) ducted fans.

Seriously...Kim...dude... eat a Snickers.

USAF:

Here’s a more recent picture of one.

The aging A-7 Corsair II, nicknamed the SLUF as in Short Little Ugly Fucker

I was an A-7 crew chief with the 44550th and I think that “cloaking device” has been repainted. I seem to remember it had brighter colors and a radiation warning sticker on it. But yeah, fuel truck drivers probably got the brunt of our false indignation when they got in the area. “See that thing hanging under the…

Jet A is about $4 a gallon right now, and a gallon is 6.5 lbs (approx) of fuel. So 20,000/6.5 = 3076 gallons. 3076 x $4 = $12300 per hour. Add in other costs for oil, labor, maintenance, landing fees, etc., and it gets expensive.

All I can say, even if I don’t know of Iron Maiden’s music, is this whole thing is fucking awesome. Seriously. Simple as that.

I wonder when we’ll have to start explaining what one of these is to younger jalops...

Judging from the extra blubber he has grown in the lead picture, I was thinking of him being a Big Mac user.