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You SHOULD install the valve so that the lever is parallel to the pipe when the valve is open. It does not matter if this is up, down...

Having a lot of right stick would be a contributing explanation of how the wing failed with only 850 ft/m sink rate in the fuselage.

Belzona has a plate bonding procedure that resembles this exactly. The product they use is 5811. They did a video about it on their...

One would think that with all of the bird flu going around that there would be fewer birds. I do have a question, are propeller driven...

I apologize, I was being facetious. I know that bronze pumps are very tolerant of most water conditions. I'm not familiar with API 610...

There are inorganic zinc/aluminum flake products that are far superior to zinc chromate for corrosion resistance. An example trade name...

Which API class specifies bronze?

Pre-delivery cracks? That sounds really bad. They're cracking before any loading or exposure occurs.

The trouble with fusible parts is that they have to be designed to fail near normal operating loads which makes them unreliable and...

Is wildfire normal or not normal in the region?

GM made electric cars before and wrote the manual... That is such an anti-innovation statement.

Just a thought, it feels as if Southwest is the reason the USA as such a good flight safety record currently. I fly a lot of SW and from...

This is the picture that gave an illusion of bent gear. Maybe it is. The locking mechanism doesn't look right.

Shoot, it looked bent to the side in another picture. All of the snow doesn't help interpretation.

A B737 had a similar nose down landing some years ago. It collapsed the nose gear. We also see the nose gear collapsed in this flight...