That was a test to see if anyone was paying attention. You pass.
On Aug 11, 2016 8:09 PM, "Mountain Man via Mercedes"
wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
> > I love the sense of danger, not to mention the hilarity of it all
>
> There you go again. Too much Hillary.
> ...hilarity... Hillary
> ;-)
> mao
>
>
Andrew wrote:
> I love the sense of danger, not to mention the hilarity of it all
There you go again. Too much Hillary.
...hilarity... Hillary
;-)
mao
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 4:45 PM, OK Don via Mercedes
wrote:
> Yup - I don't even like electric flaps or retractable gear - - -
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 2:24 PM, G Mann via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> wrote:
>
> > It j
Yup - I don't even like electric flaps or retractable gear - - -
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 2:24 PM, G Mann via Mercedes
wrote:
> It just has to be comforting to fly into battle, and be shot at, while
> piloting an inherently unstable aircraft, built of parts made by the lowest
> bidder, controlled
That's sort of the way I feel while reading 90 percent of the posts on this
list.
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 3:24 PM, G Mann via Mercedes
wrote:
> It just has to be comforting to fly into battle, and be shot at, while
> piloting an inherently unstable aircraft, built of parts made by the lowest
> b
It just has to be comforting to fly into battle, and be shot at, while
piloting an inherently unstable aircraft, built of parts made by the lowest
bidder, controlled by microchips, while doing violent maneuvers which
exceed the human bodies ability to survive and remain mentally
functional...
Yep.
That started with the F-16 back in the 70s I believe. Somewhere I have
some photos of the YF-12A (I think that is what it was called), the F-16
prototype, doing some maneuvers at Langley AFB. I was working at NASA
Langley as an intern in the Flight Research group where there were
various aircr
On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:29:27 -0500 Curley McLain via Mercedes
wrote:
>
>
> > It is comforting, at least, to know the guys who fly the B-52s
> > actually fly them, and other than auto pilot, no software can fly the
> > beasts.
>
> Unfortunately, the newer fighters are flown by digits, with min
It is comforting, at least, to know the guys who fly the B-52s
actually fly them, and other than auto pilot, no software can fly the
beasts.
Unfortunately, the newer fighters are flown by digits, with minor inputs
allowed by the human. (but only until they are completely robotic)
Curley Mc
