Friends of my brother had a dog called NOS. Boy, did that fellow live up to his name! I have never seen a more hyper and excited dog in my life. It was all positive energy though. Although there is …
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I think the difference between a “Read and Do” checklist and a “Challenge and Response” checklist is probably self-explanatory. The bigger the aircraft, the more motors and systems you are dealing with, the more extensive the checklists become. When you …
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Well, if this were universally true, I know some people who would be very fast. I also wonder how you would write this down as a mathematical formula and if the output speed would go to infinity, because of a …
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This comic simply came out of a conversation about how gliders use water ballast to increase the speed of best glide. I had never heard of such a thing before even though I have a glider rating. In my defense, …
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