His twitter says he is working for The Drive as of today:

Polar bears are manufactured? Where can I buy one and how many AA batteries will it require?

We push down on the tail and lift the nose to steer, very inefficient. The only available flight school here didn't invest in towbars or anything built after 1970

Which is what we always do with anything smaller than a C182

Those cockpits that you can sit in are practically destroyed as of 2 months ago when I last went. Labels and switch markings are worn off, and a lot of components are missing. The F-4 had the entire center console between the pilot’s legs removed. So that is what happens if you let the public into the cockpit.

What about the 113 year old technology, pilots?

Saab is designing the new version of the Gripen to be plug and play with various systems, so each country can select their preffered components and US parts are minimized/gone depending on the customer.

A10 rounds explode, not many bullet holes left. And if they didn’t explode, the holes would be much bigger than a normal bullet hole.

Do you know how long they have had the new paintjob? The picture on the top shows exhaust stains, which make it look like it has been flying for a while with that paint.

and high-performance “V” models with more horsepower than small-town police fleets.

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Ticonderoga Class Cruisers are built on the same hulls and very similar displacement as Aegis Class destroyers, so I guess that now names no longer have much meanings. For example, Japan’s new aircraft carrier is called a cruiser, etc.

Should have included a gif of the selfie

I know that the F-16 doesn’t have a lot of armor, but does the Strike Eagle have armor? It is based on an F-15, which, while built strongly, to my knowledge, isn’t very heavily armored.

Most high performance fighters lack or have greatly reduced armor to avoid adding weight and compromising performance. Which is one reason why the heavily armored A-10 has such low performance. Put the same amount of armor on a Viper and it will be next to useless.

At slow speeds, the control surfaces are not as effective because there is less air passing over them in a given time period. To reach the same effectiveness at higher speed, the controls don’t need to be moved as far. Also, larger aircraft need grater deflection because they are slow to respond due to increased mass…

Most of the pictures that you are referring to that I have seen are while the plane is descending, and they usually descend slower than the plane, which is why wake turbulence is still a threat for a few minutes after the jet causing it lands, otherwise the wake turbulence would be fine by the time the jet landed.

I believe that another possibility is that they are trying to see how far they can go, and if one of their jets is shot down by Turkey, they will be able to use their propaganda machine to spin it off that they were wronged. They could then use this as an excuse to escalate in the region or with NATO.