As an engineer, this is freshman year physics. It’s a simple conservation of energy equation. There’s no excuse for getting within 50% margin of airborne, and the profile is obviously flawed because it’s so far off parabolic.

I knew a guy that was a white knuckle driver but liked to pretend he liked to drive fast. Got a ZR1 new and was constantly making excuses why he didn’t drive it, but it was really just way too much car for him and I think he was scared. He traded it for a GT-R that he drove 5 mph under the speed limit twice a year. It…

Autopilot on a planes isn’t fully automated in any way. Tell it to fly into a mountain and it will. If another plan crosses your path it will ram right into it. It’s up to the pilot to control these things.

I was born in the late ‘70s and I totally don’t get ‘80s nostalgia. My first CD player was life changing. I do love Stranger Things though. Technology and parenting norms of the ‘80s make that show possible.

It’s darn handy with young kids that go to bed at 7:30, especially if you’re traveling.

It would take an astronomical (aeronautical?) amount of work. There is almost certainly corrosion in the wing spars, and most of the instruments probably don’t work. All the accessories, like pressurization, have been exposed because the engines are gone and would need rebuilt (including 100,000 rpm…