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I don't know anything about the B-1 stuff, but if you take that quote and drop it into the context of old NASA or current Boeing, it applies to the very top, not the lower levels. So as an outsider I have to wonder if it means the USAF, in general, has a bad culture and poor airmanship, and...

I can't take that one seriously at all. If the players are someone that *I* could knock over, let alone anyone on the second string team from the high school I went to, it just doesn't seem like a contact sport to me. My version of football has..or had... "blocking", where that means a 6'2"...

I like this design, but...maybe I'm missing something. What keeps the feed from the diode when the external receptacle is plugged in from flowing to the main bus after the ammeter, if the avionics switch is in the off position, other than the voltage drop of the diode?

Newark in the 80's?

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Guessing when they say "innovative aircraft" they may mean things that are designed to fly without people and in dangerous areas.

Not to add to any argument, in part because I can't see arguing about any of this, but couple of other things. Quicker to undo a slip than flaps for a go-around. Not sure how that may be helpful, but it could reduce risk of stall in taking out flaps before you have the airspeed. The last notch...

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Looks to be about the same age as the clutch in my washing machine. Tis the season for stuff falling apart.

Re hurricanes, you guys down south have so many warnings and near misses that I have no idea how you keep track of it all and do the mental calculations of whether or not to stay or run. Would drive me nuts, and I'd probably eventually drown if I lived there. This far north? We had two...

That's absolutely true for power distribution systems in the US, from house wiring all the way up to a steel mill. But I didn't know if that applied to aircraft systems, thanks. For good or bad, I have seem some product specifications, not aircraft, where the manufacturer required a specific...

disclaimer - not an a&p or avionics tech. Can't speak to the sign off requirements at all. But I will say that from an engineering perspective, a switch should be rated for the actual load being carried, not the rating of the breakers downstream. Depending on the design, breakers and fuses...

To add what others have said, I don't think the order of the last to things matter at all, in part because in most aircraft the mags aren't connected to the DC electrical system. The exception that comes to mind being something with electronic ignition. And that said, first plane I learned on...

Yeah, lets take an aircraft that we know has a potential for wing spar cracks, and fly it intentionally without the system working that's designed to reduce the shock load on the airframe. Bonus points if the aircraft is 30+ years old. Sorry to be harsh, but that's engineering and risk...

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I did my PPL in a PA-28, and have never heard of anyone having any problem with slips at full flaps, except that it really doesn't gain much. Maybe that's because a PA-28 at idle, at 1.2-1.3Vs0, at flaps 40 is already pretty steep. But what I also learned is that if you gently pull back on the...

From a friend who's folks had a Victory dealership, the new Indians are really Victorys, and seeing one up close they're a pretty nice looking bike. Not cheap. Well, maybe cheap compared to an airplane. They also look like they're pretty quick for what looks like a "standard" motorcycle to...

Now that I'm old and too sedentary, the gf and I end up watching a lot of TV. Sometimes I learn things I shouldn't. From Bill Engvall's routine, I learned it wasn't just me that had someone that liked to start talking to them from different rooms. That was good to know. From all sorts of...

What's the demographic of the competition teams? Is it BBQ featured restaurants who also do or sponsor a competitive team, or retired folks, or something else? Asking because it seems like a heck of a lot of work to put together and drive across the country to do.