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That's why whenever a person says "I only had one drink", I always want to ask "how big was the drink?"

Fascinating development if so

Never been used and they want to just put it on the battlefield. Hope it doesn't go crazy and kill everybody.

It's weird how something from over a quarter century ago still manages to make me laugh... It was a scene from Saving Private Ryan where Private Mellish (who happens to be Jewish) is lording his heritage over a bunch of captured German POW's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu_fQR0iyUQ I...

This cannot be a surprise, in WWII there were numerous cases where corporations traded with the Nazis. This is just one more time (it should, of course, be punished, and harshly)

While I haven't flown since 2001, even back then, I remember a case in the late 1990's where a clear-air turbulence case killed somebody. As a general rule, I would always ride buckled in unless I had to use the bathroom.

I thought all nuclear wars would include attacks on nuclear power plants? Honestly that strikes me as probably the most radiation producing action you could possibly take.

Well, it's actually more a function of stall-speed than wing-area. Turning performance is tied to stall speed since pulling a 2g turn in level flight requires twice the amount of lift as a 1g turn. With dynamic forces increasing to the square of the speed, the square root of the g-load...

Oh, here's the translation of the article Monograph by Alain Pelletier The Fisher XP-75 Eagle The idea seemed brilliant. In times of war, belligerents often pull out all the stops, especially when they find themselves in a critical situation. In this regard, Germany's last-ditch programs are...

@Aeroweanie & @bada Both of you have huge archives on your drive of WWII Aircraft Performance?

@MiTasol what kind of bee disease?

Well I know he was a fraud, but the plane was nonetheless built (and offed two pilots who flew the plane). I was curious by the 1930's if the USAAC or RAF had some kind of rule in place that dictated propeller clearance. There seemed to eventually be a rule that dictated 7" between the...

It seemed very close to the ground. Were any rules and regulations changed from that point to the start of WWII?

Yes, but he did have to know how much to cut off didn't he? For example did the propeller have to be 5-6" off the ground? Was this with the shock-absorbers uncompressed or fully compressed, etc?

I remember a mention of a massive bomber raid proposed against Berlin in 1944 which entailed some of the following, and some of these details maybe wrong because my memory isn't perfect (despite sometimes remembering a whole bunch of odd stats and figures). USAAF was to initiate the raid by...