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That’s interesting. I did not know they flight tested the X-31 after removing the vertical tail and rudder. Too bad the F-22 did not have yaw...
I should also add that it helps that I am in a warm climate year round
The 328 has a battery quick disconnect so I do that after it is fully charged from a drive. Sometimes it has been 3 months in between drives and...
Looks like the right main gear broke off, either from a hard landing before or after the right wing tip dug into the ground and flipped it over....
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During its development in the early 90s, we tested the C-17 in Eglin’s Climatic Lab from -60 to +120 deg F. We could even run the engines but not...
Mine is really short: 1980 Toyota Celica 1995 Nissan 240SX (still have) - it brings almost as much attention as the 328 1986 Ferrari 328 GTS...
Well said and sad to see the designers/engineers sacrificed at the altar of cost and schedule. How the Engineering Directors signed off on the...
As an engineer once said to a pilot "Don't worry, it's only a glider". Or is this case, "Nothing really changed, just a few lines of code. It is...
Safe now but I hope Boeing Leadership (CEO, PMs and especially Engineering) learned some lessons. Just to save some bucks on training,...
It flew in 2003 to demonstrate that aircraft shaping can reduce the strength of the shock waves/sonic booms and they achieved a 30% reduction...
Modified F-5E Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstrator [ATTACH]
In his Pilot's Report article in Air Force magazine, test pilot Scott Parks wrote: While the aircraft is already nonstandard, modifications...
Here is more on the F-111 Research Aircraft mentioned above: The General Dynamics–Boeing AFTI/F-111A Aardvark was a research aircraft modified to...
That was a good video showing all the programs that modified F-15 research aircraft was used for over the years. I worked at the AF Flight...
The XP-82 at the Valiant Air Command warbird museum in Florida. It is flyable and could be yours for about $11M or so [ATTACH]
With conformal tanks, could the F-16 still reach supersonic speeds? Without conformal tanks, I believe it reached about Mach 1.8, limited mainly...
