I wonder how a Cessna would handle in the chicanes...

(Written on 2020/09/18)(Permalink)

Bored of flying, or bored of breeding?

(Written on 2020/09/04)(Permalink)

Thanks for your lack of brevity; I love hearing about unfamiliar technologies!

(Written on 2020/08/23)(Permalink)

Can you say more about the pitot boom (aside from having to be drained after collision with a cloud) and you used hair spray on fuel quantity connectors?

(Written on 2020/08/23)(Permalink)

When this all hit, I already had a stack of N95 masks with valves. I put tape on the inside of the valves, which makes it safe for others, but isn't visible. I keep expecting someone to object, but nobody ever has.

(Written on 2020/07/31)(Permalink)

Sorry to be pedantic, but that should be 193 miles long end to end, 65 miles side to side, ***OR*** 53 miles tall stacked. Yes, way too many people have died, and their coffins would make a horrifying line (in any direction), but a cube that size would hold about 400,000 times the population of the entire world.

(Written on 2020/07/31)(Permalink)

So, you're saying "nobody knows anything, and I can assert whatever I want"? Again, good luck.

(Written on 2019/07/26)(Permalink)

There are individuals out there who believe just about anything you can think of (the Earth is flat, vaccines are more risky than what they prevent, the Moon landing was faked, the Illuminati control the world, a DC pizzeria was the center of a Democratic pedophile conspiracy, human activities aren't driving climate change, etc. etc. etc.). The fact that you can find someone who supports your theory doesn't mean that you are correct. You need to see what the broad range of experts say ("no", "no", "no", "no", "no" and "no", respectively) before you can separate truth from fiction. Good luck.

(Written on 2019/07/26)(Permalink)

This was done using airborne background-oriented Schlieren photography. Basically, the King Air did high-resolution video of the T-38s flying over textured terrain. The video is then processed to measure the apparent displacement of the terrain by the shockwaves. Details: https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/TOP2-271 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background-oriented_schlieren_technique

(Written on 2019/03/29)(Permalink)

If you're going hell-bent-for-leather in a jet stream that fast, is there any concern that the plane will wander out of the stream (or the stream will wander away from the flight path), causing the plane to violate its air-speed limitations? Alternately, just how high and wide is the jet stream, and how suddenly does the speed change as you move across it?

(Written on 2019/02/25)(Permalink)