Recent content by Admiral Beez

I was just watching this stall recovery video. Would commercial pilots be trained outside of sims for this? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L2CsO-Vu7oc

Why didn't they just navigate away from the weather? Instead of choosing a clear alternative route through Jacksonville that would have added only six minutes to the flight, the pilots opted for a southern track toward Miami that flew directly toward a massive, 100-mile-wide storm system...

If this occurs the night of April 5 1942, (hopefully Sommerville's carriers are not destroyed in the morning), unless Japan can pull a Yorktown-type rush repair, Nagumo will be down a carrier for Coral Sea less than a month away, starting May 4. And I'm not convinced that Japan can fix a...

On 5 April 1942, Somerville's Force A, built around HMS Warspite, Formidable and Indomitable, approached to approximately 100 nautical miles of Admiral Nagumo's carrier force at one point. He had roughly 30 Albacore torpedo bombers potentially available for a night strike. I don't know if...

How do other 8-passenger private jets compare? Three I'm aware of are the Embraer Praetor 500, Cessna Citation Latitude and Bombardier Challenger 350. If you're a wealthy dude, which do you want to own and/or fly when flying near (or to escape) such weather? If I had to guess...

How do those research planes that fly into storms remain free of ice or otherwise flyable? https://www.omao.noaa.gov/aircraft-operations/noaa-hurricane-hunters

Time to introduce the Moskalyev SAM-7 with its single rear mg.

I had to look that up. Is overspeed better than a stall?

Assuming it was ice, and the ice-protection systems were being used correctly, it must have been some ice. The Learjet 60 has a comprehensive ice-protection system, featuring bleed-air-heated wing leading edges, engine nacelles, fan spinners and low-pressure compressor stators, and an...

Are radar proximity shells still used today? I’m thinking of their usefulness in AA gunfire against Russian drones over Ukraine. Are Ukraine’s Gepard’s thus equipped? Is there an issue with keeping batteries charged in old NATO stock? And what of smaller arms, how small are proximity shells...

Trans Atlantic? Wikipedia gives the Albatross a range of 1,070 miles. It's 2,345 miles from Great West Aerodrome (LHR) to the closest North American airport of Gander, NL (opened in 1938), and at the Albatross's normal cruising altitude of 10,000–15,000 feet, on the way out we'd be flying...

At 18.4 L, it’s definitely one of the largest air cooled V-12s used in any aircraft. There is the 20 L Lycoming O-1230, but that’s a flat 12.

This.... Could an enlarged Albatross, presumably called the Royal Albatross after the (2nd) largest of that species, with four Peregrine engines exceed the two-engined capabilities of the DC-3?

For a 1930s four-engined passenger/transport aircraft, the de Havilland DH.91 Albatross was quite small and lightweight compared to others of the type, such as the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, which had an almost identical span to the Albatross, but was substantially heavier. An upscaled...

Google says there may be as many as seventeen Centaurus-powered Sea Furies still flying, so that’s good news.