[Red Badger]

Ping!...................

[Gay State Conservative]

I'm flying later today. I hope our pilot doesn't allow his soft ice cream to drip onto the navigation equipment or the altitude gage.

[Magnum44]

[OftheOhio]

Charles Edward Taylor’s beautiful brick home was torn down last year. This was after the Air Force spent $1.24 million, plus $77,000 in furnishings, to renovate the Charles Taylor House, a 3,500-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bathroom Tudor-style brick home.
I saw this idiocy over and over again at WPAFB. Everyone involved in this should be Court-Martialed and booted out of the military.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/air-force-tears-down-historic-150100517.html

https://everythingairplanes.com/father-of-aircraft-maintenance-charles-edward-taylor/

[bigbob]

2 out of 3 - Joe Biden Day!

[lee martell]

I’m waiting for one of our Happy Warriors in the GOP to propose adding the humble potato to the American Flag.
Maybe someone like Tom Tillis or Senator Ted Cruz will bring it to the floor for discussion. Both of them don’t mind shaking things up now and then. After that first discussion comes the decision on which potato would be most appropriate?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Special heads up for Fan Wing aircraft, a technology that should be in widespread use today.

VTOL
quieter
better lift
more stable
etc.

[Seaplaner]

As a pilot since the 60s, I'm still in awe of the absolute technology pioneering miracle that was the Orville Wright's first flight of a powered aircraft in Dec 1903.

As I recall from earlier readings, the Wrights invented the wind tunnel to design their wings and prop blades, developed a wing-warping system that preceded today's ailerons, developed three axis controls (including a hip cradle) and with the assistance of another, developed a gasoline engine light enough to be used for early aircraft operations.

Still amazing.