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https://www.businessinsider.com/radia-worlds-largest-cargo-plane-wind-turbine-blades-2024-3 A company that hasn't, as far as I can...

Remember reading claims it was used as an aiming point. This one is typical: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/AD1019687.pdf

DerAdlerdG: I'll be happy to respond. I didn't reply to the questions you posed because I already have a brief description of the...

The NTSB Preliminary Report is out: NTSB releases preliminary report on West Nashville plane crash that killed Canadian family of 5 It...

Yes. The book wasn't bad, and covered the shift in operational aggressiveness under Doolittle well: It also had the German reaction...

It would have been nicer to see a good segment on VIII Fighter Command. As for the 332nd, meh.

Did a night refueling off one in the mid-eighties . . . reserve squadron (out of Alameda?) needed a tanker requal. Don't remember much...

At the risk of belaboring the point, I think this falls into the category of a bold claim that requires more than the usual amount of...

The Dauntless had some of the largest dive brakes on any dive bomber built and 400 mph would exceed the dive speeds of other dive...

The AOA charts max out at just over 5 degrees, so that seems a relatively minor adjustment to the dive angle. And that airspeed is much...

Wow, I haven't thought about ARBS in decades! I spent the 1980s working AV-8B and potential (but never built) derivatives at McDonnell...

The recent conflicts are so atypical that it's hard to draw conclusions. The recent Southwest Asia conflicts were basically no threat...

When the SBD "pushed over", there was actually negative Gs. Several accounts by rear-gunners stated that loose gear in the cockpit was...

Just to be clear, the G-forces are in the pullout, not the dive. And it's correct that for any particular release height, the required...

Yes, and there are lots of different systems out there solving basically the same problem different ways, and they all change over time...