Recent content by SeaKingTacco

No F22 has been shot down, ever. Do you perhaps mean an F117?

Heretic!

I am wondering how much of a future there is in human crewed helicopters- and I say this as a person who has spent the better part of two decades in Maritime Rotary Wing Aviation. There are obvious use cases for crewed helicopters- missions where machines don’t yet have the creativity to solve...

Nepal, too, I think.

Once again, fuel is the issue. We try not to burn all of the local’s fuel supply. It is better to bring our own from the south and burn that.

And up north, alternate airports are far apart, meaning a large percentage of your fuel is held as a reserve.

I think a Global Eye is probably substantially heavier than a stock passenger Global Express 6500. I would guess a range/endurance of only half of that.

That is just a bit curious…

I like it.

Or teach celestial navigation…

Geopolitically speaking, that might be the case.

That is an antenna, not a refuelling probe.

I don't think that it does.

I actually can form a mental picture of some stokers standing in front of a coal bin in an aircraft, madly shovelling into a furnace to keep the aircraft airborne.

I was commenting more on Phoenix, more than GlobalEye. Sorry for lacking clarity.