Recent content by Zipper730

@Admiral Beez It sounds like it'd be some kind of pastry if you ask me, but I was told that an herbalisitc based compound makes everything taste better (too lame?)

Yeah, plus the plane has a yaw-damper since it came out. Technically, I think the 707 and DC-8's had them (though I don't think the first 707's did)

I kind of got the message that it was more like: "If you screw-up, we'll rip your balls out". Sounds rather painful lol.

I've seen a variation of that before, but it had the testicles without the scrotal sac on them. Becuase of it, I actually initially misinterpreted the image as a heart, and then looked further and realized what it was! The image was prevalent throughout SAC in the 1960's (even at SAC bases)

What I meant is that it's not even in the Top 10: Russia is the largest, Canada is second, the US or China depending on source are 3/4, and so on. Ukraine is 46th in size. Admittedly the UK is 64th, and Germany is 79th in size... That's a pretty good quote. Generally, the typical slogan with...

Honestly, the propagandist speaking is clearly not addressing a number of things that should be obvious. The size of a nation doesn't diminish its value to the world: Ukraine isn't all that big, but it's known as the bread-basket of Europe, for example. The size of a nation doesn't diminish...

So auto-rich/auto-lean wasn't about covering altitude but simplifying the amount of fuel/air ratio adjustments for the different conditions of flight?

I'm curious why the fluid-four remained such a popular formation in the USAF when the USN moved away from it? BiffF15, davparlr, drgondog, GTX, Glider, MIflyer, ThomasP, tyrodtom, XBe02Drvr

I never really thought of it that way. Admittedly the F-8A had similar performance (better in some ways, possibly a little slower at top-end) and was used in this capacity. That appears to be similar for the F-104, though I'm curious to what extent it (the F-104A/C) was used in defending NATO...

There was qutie a bit on fighter vs bomber tactics, which is quite a surprise: Was the F-100 ever intended to be used in a day-interceptor role in the defense of CONUS, Alaska, or NATO airspace?

So, early systems did require mixture-ratio adjustments due to changes in altitude? Was that where the auto-rich/auto-lean matter came in?

Here's an interesting disinformation tactic the Russians sometimes use: They don't necessarily directly say they'll use nukes, they instead create a narrative that if an event they don't want to happen happens, it would mean nuclear war with Russia. The idea of course is to scare citizens into...

While this post is around 4 years old, it does touch upon something I was curious about: Prospects for any form of limited war. I was reading a book about the F-101 by Ron Easley, it's easily one of the best books I've read on the aircraft and it actually reveals a lot of things about the...

I was reading through some older posts of mine and I'm glad I stumbled on this. This is awesome

Yeah, I did and corrected it Adds up And that would be that an airbase would be toast if the enemy launched nuclear missiles first. It would appear the option would be that, if in doubt, you should always fire first and "use 'em" rather than "lose 'em"? From what I recall, during the late...