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Please tell me this is some sort of sad joke that was lost into conversion into a post. How DARE anyone be enthusiastic about, or worse, participate in such a thing... beating and imprisoning someone over his beliefs. Again, let me turn it around. What if a Muslim man in the USA said...

I think 99.999% of us are too stupid to understand. ;) Mathematics is their language. No sane human can envision 9 dimensions. But break it down into math, and there are plenty of people who can do it. When math describes everything we can observe and verify experimentally, it tends to hold...

The Stinger missiles are long gone. They have a shelf life for these critical components: - Solid rocket motor - Specialized battery that is hard to replicate - most importantly, the special refrigerant gas used to cool the seeker If Stingers were still usable, they would have been used by...

Pictures of corpses blown into raggedy shreds and burnt? that wouldn't go over very well. Let's pretend for a moment that they do. What would the world reaction be? "Americans callously disregard decorum and display human carcasses in media circus!! Shame!"

Here's a strange story about NYC that I've told before, but I think it's worth repeating. I swear this is true. We were in an MD-11 flying past NYC at night. It's before 9-11, maybe 2000, and the WTC dominated the skyline. The night was unbelievably clear, and the city was giant, and...

Let me put it this way - I am pretty widely traveled. I've spent time in some major cities like London, Tokyo, and Paris. Paris, especially, is considered a "magical" city, and in its way, it is. I can intellectually understand the appeal of the culture, the architecture, but on a personal...

I would have thought Pakistanis would be happy to see tourists enjoying their country.

The problem will ALWAYS be one of fuel economy. Gas turbines produce astounding power to weight ratios, but do this only at the expense of phenomenal fuel consumption. Yeah it's cool it can consume a number of fuels, but it'll still get only 5 miles per gallon, or some other ridiculous number...

These guys are giving high marks to machine-man interfaces. They presume everybody is some iPhone carrying wired nerd type who cannot stand not being online all the time. They'll have to kill me before I'll permit some sort of mechanical implant in my brain. The moment people start getting...

Haha! If there's a shipboard emergency, they'd all run to their cars. "My Porsche! It MUST be saved!" ;) My favorite U.S. Navy ship must remain the U.S.S. Constitution. Veteran of the War of 1812, stellar war record, and the oldest ship in the world still afloat and on the Navy rolls...

Criticisms like this are so typical. "America is empty, a shell, no soul." And comparisons are made to Pakistani or Indian cities. Maybe it's possible that a New Yorker visits those cities and dislikes them as much as they dislike NYC. "That Indian City is SO polluted. The people run about...

Nuclear batteries can be exceptionally small. They are reliable and have been around for decades. They are essential for pretty much any space probe beyond Mars, because the solar flux out there is so weak, solar panels become nearly useless. Nuke batteries aren't true reactors. They simply...

Sorry to hear about the Russian craft, but pathetic to even hint at sabotage. How utterly juvenile. That's like a kid falling off his skateboard and blaming an onlooker 25 meters away who has done nothing. I'd like to see China or Russia do something that hasn't been done yet. We have moon...

The whole article was a giant metaphor. My statement stands. An old man in a twin Beech vs. India. I am no huge Yeager fan, but the man had talent. You don't do that without skills.

I was initially against women in the squadron. Now, I am kind of neutral, based upon feedback from current pilots. The reason I was against them was mainly one of squadron chemistry. An all-male squadron was like the coolest frat-house ever with the best toys in the entire world, and you are...

Let's see... an old man in a twin beechcraft, vs. the Indian Air Force. Yeah that's something to boast about.

You assume the traitor can be apprehended by the FBI, or is even in the USA. Most possible offenders are overseas. By stripping them of their citizenship, their passport is voided. Their ability to travel is curtailed, and any appeal for help to a U.S. embassy or consulate is ignored...

I'm not familiar with pilot Azam. Not to take anything away from him, but the "top gun" certificate means he had the best strafing scores in class 61-G at Luke. There are 12 classes per year, and each class would have a strafe top gun guy. It is an award handed out to each graduating class...

Frankly, it's amazing that this sort of thing doesn't happen more often. They were undoubtedly doing training involving a merge to a visual fight. It is very easy to lose sight, and if both pilots do, and there is a conflicting flight path, BANG and you're now ejecting. To get an idea how...

I rarely post YouTubes, but this is a good one for the technically-minded regarding the F-35. The guy explains some of the procedures for operating the STOVL version, and you can get a feel for the wizardry that went into the design, especially when dealing with vertical flight. The computer...