Might not be too much of a surprise if the production followed the C series to Alabama ,or if they did a production run in India for the local market , like the production run of F16s India variants . All the hard design and build issues have been solved so an assembly point can be put anywhere , Th...

No , a clown is someone who says that there is no human to human contact and allows a Preventable Pandemic to kill millions of people and create an unprecedented instability in the world . A clown is someone who believes a communist political hack with a degree in politics spewing lies about a disea...

Christine Potkul writes: “Concerns were also raised when the FNIH terminated a study examining the long-term effects of alcohol consumption. The alcohol industry donated nearly $100 million toward the research, but the project was shut down when investigators discovered that NIH workers inappropriat...

Cold Starting Liquids and solids don’t burn; only vapors burn. This is true whether a fuel is in the atmosphere or confined in the cylinder of an engine. So, starting a cold engine requires a fuel with a high enough volatility to form a vapor-air mixture in the flammable range. The lower the ambient...

The engine was originally designed to run on 80/87 . If you are using 100 ll it will be a richer mixture on start . I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this. Assuming all else is the same, how does a higher octane fuel result in a richer mixture? Me too after re-reading it :) As both fuels h...

The engine was originally designed to run on 80/87 . If you are using 100 ll it will be a richer mixture on start . Baffles might restrict volume and not warm the air like the bicycle pump effect . Adding to much fuel can actually cool the gas being generated in the ignition process . If you are usi...

Anyone important die in the other 184 crashes in the last ten years ?
Twenty of which were they say in helicopters .
Anyone we might know ?

More vaccines are coming soon , folks

Help is on the way !

Nobody has mentioned The Dam Busters yet have they? Excellent movie , Two Lancaster pilots used to drink in my local pub . Their stories were quite frightening. One of the mechanics that worked on the Lancasters had his blankets shot off him while sleeping . If he had of been sleeping on his side h...

How expensive are those integrated ballistic parachutes to re-pack ? Are they spring fired or rocket deployed ? The magazine article did not go into any detail about the integrated ballistic chute system or if one was fitted to this particular model . Just that it was available , as an option or sta...

Oh how I yearn for the good old days when the experts would recommend different tobacco products that were beneficial to your health .
Some of the face diaper crowd would be smoking two packs a day and blowing smoke at us

Good , fast , cheap , takes a load .
Pick any two out of the four

Enlighten me then what is the truth. 42. 42 is Douglas Adams grotesque oversimplification of the Aristotle discussions on Questions , also hinted at but never debated in Hamlet . That is the Answer to the question you asked . A modern computer Guru might say garbage in , garbage out . Although my f...

ReserveTank Covid isn’t a common cold. Give your head a shake. https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-millions-us-dollars-risky-coronavirus-research-1500741 It was man made in a Laboratory by evil wicked homicidal maniacs intent on murdering humanity . The same Doctor was ...

The prices in some Hotel mini bars could make it a very expensive three days .

Gonna need a couple of forty pounders , or try the Whiskey diet where the only thing you lose are days not pounds

The best bang for the buck is the F15 .
Very few aircraft can match its interdiction capabilities .
It would look very pretty painted in the Arrow colours

An old plumber I worked with years ago used to say “ it does not matter where you piss, just where you wash your face “

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/ ... tion-shake
Looks like the USA is buying more F15’s and more F16’s . They are not putting all their eggs in the one basket or basket case

What kind of performance changes from the new kit ?

F**K Uncle Sam and the horse he rode in on. Canada was capable of building and flying the worlds most advanced interceptor in 1953. Revive and re-design a multi role platform based on the bones of the CF-105. Have none of you been listening to the 2020 mantra of "Stay local, support local and ...