74 is too old for a private pilot

(Written on 2017/02/17)(Permalink)

oh yes--It is going to be great fun flying at 30mph from LAX to South Africa. Of course, you have to take off and land under perfect flying conditions. That shouldn't add more that a day or two to the typical flight.

(Written on 2016/05/13)(Permalink)

Well, we finally found a use for the F22--landing in a dubious country. I worked on this plane back in the design phase, and wondered even then why in the hell we were developing another air superiority fighter.

(Written on 2016/04/29)(Permalink)

I was a senior executive in the aerospace and electronics fields for over 30 years. I have worked with every military and commercial customer in the US, and most of their foreign conterparts. FAA ranks dead last as a customer in my experience. No abiity to make decisions, very limited technical expertise, extremely tangled management buerocracy, and what have you, I was working on next gen ATC back in the early 80's, and the progress since then is nil, but the expenditures have been astronomical

(Written on 2015/05/08)(Permalink)

Press is reporting the co-pilot set the autopilot to full descent mode How can they possibly now this since the FDR has not been recovered???

(Written on 2015/03/27)(Permalink)

I was lucky enough to view the mock-up in the very early days of design. A fantastic aircraft, especially considering the state of aerodynamics and computational technologies back then. As for it's speed record, don't forget that it is true for unclassified airbreathing aircraft....enough said

(Written on 2015/02/20)(Permalink)