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What remarkable airplanes - the XB-35 and the YB-49.... I wonder how many people would know the correct answer to the question: Name the USAF aircraft that were powered by 8 jet engines? heheheheee

Yeah....women. Like you, I have often noticed that they do have an odd-ball sense of humour.

....now THAT would certainly spill the tea of the self-loading cargo inside....

In the fall of 1994 I was teaching as a guest professor at Loyal Marymount Univ. in Los Angeles (wow - what a place!) and one day in November, the Dean's EA brought the earthquake procedures memo for me to read to my first year Engineering Drawing class. So, I carefully read this one-pager...

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Gary: I'd suggest checking on the NHTSA website - and see if the US Govt has done any investigations and / or recieved a large number of complaints. Pete

There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. People often asked us if, because of this fact, it was fun to fly the jet. Fun would not be the first word I would use to describe flying this...

Separated at birth....

Absolutely - please do come up here Jim! Free acommodations at the Harrow Hilton! Pete

Nooooooooooo…..say it ain’t so DE!

Join the club Rob....

Yeah - @Downeaster should pick this one up and re-join the good guys and their cool bikes!

Looks like a great start to a fun project Rob! ...one tiny correction: if the bike is a 1977 then its a D-model (XS650D) if the bike is a 1978, then its an E-model (XS650E) Yamaha in the early 1970s went through a goofy period where they simply could not seem to sort out the model names and...

Yup - and several flying scale models have been built of the BV141 and they reportedly work just fine. I'd guess that a lot of wind tunnel testing went into the full-size prototype back in the 1940s to get things just right.

Now THAT was a remarkable piece of technology - to say nothing of the F111 terrain-following radar. I read somewhere that the F111 crews called flying under the control of the TFR "skiing" and that it was pretty spooky to be belting along at 600 kt at 200' with mountains, valleys, trees etc...

C'mon @DaveO - get stuck into it! Pete

One of my closest engineering buddies, Dr. HIH (Herb) Saravanamuttoo wrote the computer program that set the scheduling of the air intake and exhaust nozzles (those two things are absolutely crucial to supersonic flight). Without correct intake and exhaust nozzle schedules, the Concorde could...

A bunch of us were in Kingsville, ON - which was right in the "totality" zone and it was a superb experience.

I’ve always had a soft spot for the DC8 and Here’s a video of one of the last examples still flying - for Samaritan’s Purse relief org. I think I know a chap who has worked with them….good guy for sure. 😊

Hi Jim / All: I don't know how the heck I missed this thread - just catching up. What a cool project Jim - and done with your usual thoroughness and good taste I see. Cheers, Pete