Do pilots know what absolutely every single button and switch in the cockpit does?
As an airline captain with tens of thousands of hours, I’m going to take a bit of a contrarian stance here. Of course we know what all of…
If a highly trained CIA SOG or Delta Force operator were placed in an American supermax prison like ADX Florence or Pelican Bay, would they be able to escape it?
I’m 99 percent sure that no inmate is leaving ADX Florence unless he’s in a body bag. I don’t care if that person is a Delta, DEVGRU, SOG,…
What did us F4 phantom pilots think of Rolls-Royce powered versions used by their UK counterparts?
Mixed feelings. The British engine was chosen primarily because of politics. They wanted to support their own jet industry, which is understandable. They also wanted higher thrust to…
Were the Japanese surprised when the Americans did not invade strongly held islands but simply bypassed them and cut off their supply routes?
It was a measure of the Japanese strategic military ignorance, that they never understood how stupid their “Fortress Pacific”, strategy was. The Japanese surveyed and deployed their armed…