i am calm

just saying it's pretty obvious
even on the small pic

https://media.giphy.com/media/1AIeYg...6juu/giphy.gif

what a bunch of nonsense, what makes you the psychic who can see if I'm exited and worked up ?? over nothing??

Do you reeaaally think I'm exited because "somebody" on a forum posted a picture thinking it was real???

Why would it or you even be important enough for me to raise my blood pressure half a point (and mine 's low by default) ???

That I reply to something means absolutely nothing, and that's really all I did.
I replied to something.. I can do that sitting on the crapper.
You want a picture of that?

well.... what is that saying.... ah yes, now i remember: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

^^ This reply - makes you sound worked up and excited. Just saying...

y'all are nuts :D

One of the neighbors planes
 

Just sorting out some pictures and found a picture of my neighbors aircraft.
1934 Taylor Cub still flies it.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1614020017.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1614020065.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1614020121.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1614020213.jpg

Terry

Not a photoshop.

https://i1.wp.com/theaviationist.com...00%2C635&ssl=1

New aircraft to the naval inventory
AT-6E Wolverine
Close Air Support, Forward fire Control, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b42LAjxAddY

Peter Garrison has a good article. It is a positive maybe!

https://www.flyingmag.com/story/aircraft/technicalities-celera-500l-design/

"Well, I thought, the magic number must be 65,000 feet. Sure enough, here, 500 hp yields 430 ktas—at 120 kias—and 17 nmpg. A more realistic cruising power of 400 hp yields, well, nothing, because the minimum power required to sustain flight at this altitude, at 325 ktas, is 425 hp.

We seem to be in the ballpark, but the Celera may encounter several difficulties on its way to FL 650."

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1615774544.jpg

Saw this on another site; thought it funny enough to post here.

The celery is a joke.
No High altitude plane has such short stubby wings
Not unless it has one of these :

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1615792934.jpg

Take it up with Peter, he ran the numbers. High aspect ratio works well at high altitude.

I learned a couple of new things last night.

European theater WWII, highest ACE count was in a P47 Thunderbolt.

But what's a half-kill?

And Jimmy Stewart not just an actor, who knew?

Legends of Airpower (1999)
Amazon Prime Video
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1615830794.jpg

Like an assist in basketball.

Awesome series by the way.

A U-2 has landed on a carrier as well.

I believe it is when two fighters simultaneous fired upon, and brought an enemy aircraft down.

What did they use for the chase car? :D

Area 51 is getting busy again

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39787/mysterious-high-altitude-flight-corridor-was-opened-up-between-area-51-and-the-pacific

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^^^
TBO article is a good read.

At the end of the day, the $45K I assume was the cost for rebuilding both engines on the subject aircraft.

I still try to understand why an aircraft engine rebuild cost is so expensive. If a component measures within tolerance, does it get replaced anyway? What is the cost of bearings, cylinders, pistons, valves, guides, etc., assuming the crank, cam, conrods are within spec and reused.

Compared to your standard Porsche 911 engine and replacing like components.

Splane to me Lucy.