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Concur. Spreading the pilot out in a prone position might be the answer, but only if it’s a really weird question.

From the Wikipedia.com: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prone-pilot_aircraft The Beecraft Wee Bee seems to be unique in that the pilot’s pants form much of the monocoque.

This is a pet peeve of mine. There are many frivolous lawsuits, to be sure, but the McDonald’s coffee case wasn’t one of them.

I suppose that almost every populated area has GA airports, or something like them. The individual PR or small team could unpack the LASH kit, post to PoA to ask which of the nearby craft best suited their mission, and be on their way back to freedom.

Sort of reading-between-the-lines, but I’m imagining rescue personnel requisitioning available aircraft to super-GTFO of a hostile country in the dead of night. Kinda weird and better suited for a spy novel, but maybe?

There’s where it starts making more sense, and the air force’s .mil site explains that the development being tested here is a man-portable version of the full LASH kit. “After careful study of mission requirements and aircraft capabilities, AFRL researchers designed the LASH kit using a number...

Concur. A STOL plane can do amazing things, but I’m scratching my head on what a Super Cub would bring to a battlefield that a helicopter wouldn’t do better. On a tangent: The Lysander was an 850hp plane that, I’m guessing, approached 200mph in cruise while still landing in the 50mph range. A...

Firstly, nobody knows how gyrocopters work. No one. Not one soul. My own pet theory is that they generate lift by “spinning all the drag up” using aerodynamic principles unknowable to man, but I certainly don’t expect to convince anyone of this any more than the driven/driving/stalled rotor...

Where I live — which is below the roots of an ancient Cyprus tree deep within a cursed and haunted swamp — we* often say that emotions are life’s sauces. “Schadenfreude” is a nasty German emotion, but a good sauce for meat. It is, however, pungent and cloying and easy to overdo. “I like a little...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/My-First-Book-Of-Airplanes-/293534448575 Go for an older book! This book is an absolute delight. Maybe written a bit more for a 9-10-year-old, but that kid would be ready to join Strategic Bomber Command after digesting what this book covers. Also, Flight of the Fox...

I can’t believe I read the whole thing. Wow. The ups and downs, cliffhangers, action, unforgettable characters, twists, and That Ending!

It takes a lot for Grandmother Sumac to stir from her ancient hollow tree deep in the cursed and haunted swamp in which she dwells to comment on an Internet video. WTF.

I had a trailer slip off the ball hitch a couple days ago. It scratched the bumper a little but not much.

I’ve heard of an A&P finding a tiny, silver DC-2 charm way back in the tailcone of some Stinson or another and concluding that in every airplane there must be a tiny, silver DC-2 charm hidden somewhere. Get to looking!

Years ago I was a writer at a newspaper near an Air Corps training base that taught eager youths to fly a new type of Noisy Cargo Plane. One day I received an envelope containing a whopping great stack of looseleaf onto which a lengthy manifesto had been written in awkward hand using one of...

I also can’t be bothered. Too old and too set in my ways.