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Soviet airborne forces had airdroppable infantry fighting vehicles (bmd), air droppable self propelled, artillery, assault guns and tanks. In effect they were ( and now as Russian airborne) very light motorized rifle divisions. They could move and maneuver faster on the ground than a similar...

You are entirely correct. Which is why I said ”if taken more seriously” which could have led to the Development of the tech needed to at least have a workable ducted fan or possibly a jet. The problem is that no one took him seriously, and he didn’t help himself with some of the claims he made

It is possible that if the Coanda 1910 have been taken more seriously either jet engines or ducted fan might have been developed pre WWI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coand%C4%83-1910

If you think that is funny look at the horizontal takeoff vertical landing air craft carrier concept. It used conventional f-18 but instead of building a new plane for 100 million each, just build 16 ships at a couple of billion each

I agree with you direct’s jupiter was the best solution.

Totally agree with you. Something, I have always argued ( and some smart engineers too) is that for all its faults and compromises none of the accidents were due to a fault of the orbiter as designed. Challenger was the result of a failure in the Srb’s ( which was fixed, but could have been...

So, funny. It reminds me of a story read were the Warsaw Pact Forces get defeated by Artillery, MLRS, and Aircraft delivered High Quality Vodka. WP forces too drunk and NATO Forces rolled all the way to Moscow. ROTFL

Calbear. I think you forgot one important aspect that affects defense procurement, which is defense appropriations. defense works out of yearly appropriations included in the national defense portion of the budget. This has a direct impact on unit price. For example ( very simplified, but...

About half a wing width back

You might have landing issues, seems tail heavy

Congrats. Have a safe drive

Welcome back, and sorry for your loss.

It was tried in the late 60s, early 70’s by panam for their first class and international class passengers from downtown ny to la guardia or jfk, service failed in a little more than a year,, among the issues, expensive and the fact that since it was a scheduled flight, ,by the time they did...

been there, done that, got a tshirt, wit a conscript at the controls,, thankfully had Chute,

Not really. 1. eliminating two engines have a direct effect on lift capacity, range and speed. 2. if You add external tanks to get additional range which was 310 miles - you have same effect as 1 above 3. with a service cealing of 11500 feet MSL means that the passengers will be caught in low...

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Sorry I lived in oklahoma and all the houses in my area had basement. in the city of lawton over half the houses had basement. Basement are common in OK the house i lived in was built in 1893.

The 2013 tornado went through Moore OK, I was at Ft. Sill at the time and my coworkers daughters lost their houses. Sadly the greatest loss of life was an entire first grade class as thee tornado went through a School. After the event the school was rebuilt with a tornado shelter and the city...

Lt. Gen Pedro Del Valle USMC Lt Gen Del Valle wrote an essay titled "Ship-to-Shore in Amphibious Operations" while assigned to the "Landing Operations Text Board" ,developing USMC doctrine for amphibious assault and opposed landings. He commanded the 11th Marine regiment Artillery in...