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All airplanes can climb vertically since any airplane can be looped, many successfully. Some can go vertical MUCH longer than others. A...

Here: https://youtu.be/qzrg-u-MYdc

Zoom climb is not an angle. It is a sustained airspeed anywhere between best angle and best rate of climb. If you are faster than best...

Got about halfway through it before I got interrupted. Interesting debate. Greg is a pretty good speaker and Bill is, as always and as...

I understand, Barrett, but all the demo teams zoom climb into aerobatics and use the extra altitude gained to make nice big, round loops...

I thought that the Yak 3/9 had an excellent 360-degree canopy. Then I tried one on. The 1940s sized pilot's head almost touched the...

It's a Bloch MB.162. Population 1.

Beautiful picture Greg! Very nice work. :thumbright: I remember there used to be a J-22 website that was created by an aeronautical...

Need Flying Buttresses to be authentic.

Hey, I didn't specify three ovens set to different temperatures, nor sauce pans. They may not complain ... what am I talking about...

I don't think it has enough wings. Maybe 2 more sets? And some interplane sesqui-wings for good luck, with a triplane tail and 4...

It's hard to ignore hindsight, but you HAVE TO to arrive at a decision potentially acceptable to them at the time. Looking at it from...

FYI - the first 20(?) P-51H's had a "short" tail that mimicked the P-51D before the taller tail became the norm. The taller tail...

At about 28:20 in this video it shows the P-35's wing root. It appears to my untrained eyes to have five spars...