But the Starship was a disaster for all of aviation in terms of lost opportunity. The billion bucks — closer to two billion in today’s dollars — that Raytheon spent going down the wrong technology paths could have been, and should have been, spent on an improved conventional turboprop. T...
He took an early interest in two VLJ companies: Florida-based Safire and a little Albuquerque company called Eclipse Aviation. Eventually the focus narrowed to just one. “I was convinced that the Eclipse would transform aviation,” says Cecka. “What I liked about Eclipse was that they had ...
Hmmm... What DOES it do on the instruments? It should have no effect whatsoever, since the NAV radio on a localizer frequency ignores the OBS and there is nothing else that is affected by the setting, either. On a VOR freq, of course, the OBS has a large effect, but on the LOC i...
With I believe the exception of Russia, the entire world uses imperial units in aviation. Boats/ships speed and distances are measured in knots and nautical miles. People in the UK and Ireland reference body weight in “stone” (14lbs). Click to expand... With the exce...
“[The C-5] symbolized the size, power, might and majesty of the United States Air Force,” says Air Force Historian John Leland, and it still does to this day. For a half-century, the Galaxy has kept America’s armed forces, allies, and far-flung scientists well supplied in the mos...