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Performance Envelopes

Understanding your performance envelope... or how to land a 757 at Toncontin Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Thank goodness for modern engineering.  Using mathematics to predict real-world behaviors, and then testing the hell out of stuff to make sure what works in theory also works in practice.  Theory and practice, thinking and building, it all comes together in these miraculous machines.

Alain de Cadenet on the gnarlyness of the Merlin-engined Spitfire

Limbo Limbo, Cathay Pacific...

777flyby
Hey sure, let's buzz the airfield.  No problem! 

Check out the video here.

But.

We all know these things don't even count unless you barrel-roll the plane:

Sheesh.  Come on!  Those who don't know their history are doomed never to repeat it.

Many thanks to our strategic associates at Telstar Logistics for notification of this sub-par buzzing.