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  1. Dennis K

    Tennessee Lawmakers Propose Legislation Banning ‘Chemtrails’

    These stories always remind me of the rush to the ramp of the NC-130A the lab used for weather modification experiments whenever anyone let slip we were flying over their home town to make a "donation".
  2. Dennis K

    Those Magnificent Men.......

    Along the lines of missed opportunities, I will always feel sad the producers failed to include a Burgess-Dunne tailless pusher swept-wing biplane in the lineup. A 1909 era aircraft remarkable not only for it's swept tailless configuration but for it's stability during a time when most other...
  3. Dennis K

    FAA actively recruiting workers who suffer "severe intellectual" disabilities and psychiatric problems

  4. Dennis K

    Why battery-powered aircraft will never have significant range

    Sorry. I assumed everyone understood politicians influenced by their enablers were the entities who passed laws banning things engineers created before replacements were developed in order to have "done something".
  5. Dennis K

    Why battery-powered aircraft will never have significant range

    And there you have the greatest danger the so-called "greenies" present. Ban all evil petrochemical fuel long before anything has been developed to replace them.
  6. Dennis K

    Crashes in the News - Thread

    True but silencers were in development before the project was canceled. As near as I can discover the military applications were never even considered as rotary wing assault had not yet a proven concept. As history has demonstrated, the army has a real problem accepting "radical" new concepts...
  7. Dennis K

    Crashes in the News - Thread

    In 1957 the Fairy Aerodyne was a proven Osprey-sized twin-turboprop, 200 mph transport with a ramjet-driven main rotor that, unlike the CV-22, could auto rotate. The thinkers in those pre-Vietnam days could not imagine the need for a fast troop carrier with vertical TO & landing abilities. Now...
  8. Dennis K

    Ion Thrusters....not kidding!

    You can start laughing now but I for one will never forget the top-shaped machine my grilfriend and I watched go over the front of the car doing around 30 mph about 70 feet up making no sound whatsoever but glowing like a dim fluorescent tube.
  9. Dennis K

    SeaBee in Ukraine

    There was a Seabee that sunk in a dam near Rome, NY after hitting the palisades after a failed take-off attempt some years ago.
  10. Dennis K

    The Antonov 225 is no more . . . .

    Then there was the USAF base where the turn around and ramp areas were discovered to be well under the specified concrete thickness when they were dug up during renovation. Especially troubling considering the parallel taxiway was to be used as a secondary scramble runway WTSHTF.
  11. Dennis K

    Wanna build a 110 year old airplane?

    Thanks, thjakits. Been searching for drawings and collecting info on the Dunne for a model simular to the German one in the video for quite some time now.
  12. Dennis K

    Why battery-powered aircraft will never have significant range

    As part of the weather detachment supporting the Black Bird program out of Okinawa I maintained the upper air tracking equipment that included a hydrogen generator we were supposed to use to inflate the weather instrument carrying balloons to high altitude. It consisted of a heating blanket...
  13. Dennis K

    Mitchell Wing B10 - England

    Mice enlarged a doorbell wire hole into my basement and chewed up the servo wiring threaded thru the wing ribs while nesting in a number of quarter scale model wings suspended from the ceiling. Little bastards must have been doing the Goldy locks thing until they found the "just right" one.
  14. Dennis K

    Facetmobile

    Too great an angle of attack and you drag the wing tips on the runway coming or going.
  15. Dennis K

    Facetmobile

    I read Ver Hees has no interest in selling plans or kits for his two seat Delta and is looking for either a buyer or partner to continue with the project.
  16. Dennis K

    replica's other than p-51 p-40

    I seem to remember there was a PZXL-P.11C with a Ford engine that showed up at Oshkosh some years ago.
  17. Dennis K

    Experimental (ELSA / E-AB) No Longer Allowed for Flight Training??

    Sorry to chime in with a negative note but while reading through the FAA's new mandatory "safety test" or Recreational UAS Safety Test (TRUST) for flying model airplanes last night I found their twisted fixation on only FAA approved versions of personal satisfaction fascinating. Even donated...
  18. Dennis K

    You thought amateur drones were dangerous, what about the jetpacks?

    Reminds me of the C-141 pilot who reported a parachute sighted while descending into Kadena back in the 1960's. He actually did see a parachute but it was the 18 inch bamboo and orange paper parachute under one of our radiosonde balloons as it flashed by at around 220 kts. I realize it's...
  19. Dennis K

    Does this aircraft have any use?

    Hard to believe some have sunk so low as to be terrified some Marxist useful idiot might call them a playground name if we hurt their feelings by using a word that “offends” them. If rational adults keep allowing self-appointed immature fools to modify language with each imagined slight soon...
  20. Dennis K

    Facet Opel

    I can't vouch for the vibration because my only experience with pushers is with models but the prop close to the trailing edge sure makes a racket, even more so if in a slot.
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