That man had more discipline than I ever had. I would have asked for time off, lived a healthy life to maintain maximum energy, gotten fired, borrowed money to keep paying that rent.
And yet I’m intrigued.
On a darker side long ago I had a friend whose younger brother was mentally handicapped, but very handsome. The holiday resort had several real estate conventions or such and was packed with females. They would bring the poor (age 17 or so) boy to their rooms then just...
A while back I saw a Ukrainian test drone with a pulse motor - the idea being that it would fly fast, not far, and be cheaper than a small turbojet. Did the project get anywhere?
I can’t imagine anyone surviving a ramming of B-29 with so many guns pointed at you and the impact energy and so on. I can guess you try to break tail control surfaces so the bomber becomes crippled?
Around 1974 my father obtained full blueprints of the Bucker Jungman. Purely for novelty, a few engineers at Air Canada ran a stress model (this was a lot of work to load up n the wing and other structures). They came back with +9/ -6 G endurance and rupture was well above but to forget those...
Seeking parts to flight goggles Lancaster. These goggles belonged to F.O. Hebert, "J-14530. The glass lens are missing and one nut. Might anyone know where to obtain them?
I was thinking from a battle damage perspective that rupture if one side or tube wouldn’t cause loss in both but thinking about it the crew would switch to 100% O2 and plan descent. So no problem if a hole on one end appeared. Unless of course you were in the tube and launched.