Bendix - Utica NY

12/22/2024

08/14/2024

08/02/2024

https://amp.tmz.com/2023/09/20/missing-f-35-crash-witness-describes-sound-fighter-jet-south-carolina/

A South Carolina man will never forget the day a military fighter jet smashed down dangerously close to his home ... and you will never forget his description of the crash.

07/27/2024

When you fuel up an SR-71, sitting on the ground in the hot sun, the fuel dribbles out on the tarmac. That’s not an apocryphal tale, it’s really true.

When you want to start the engines on an SR-71, you can’t use a standard airport start cart, you have to shackle each engine up to a pair of big V8 muscle car engines. Then, to get the fuel to ignite, you have to inject a special, toxic, high temperature hypergolic chemical mix similar to rocket propellant.
So you do all that, and you get the thing into the air, and you have to have a tanker waiting, just for you. You can’t take off with full tanks, and you can’t fly very far without them—or with them for that matter.
So you fill ’er up and accelerate to cruising speed. Only then do the tanks heat up enough to expand and seal up the leaks.
So you refuel—a few times—and you get to wherever you need to go—which is going to be deep inside the territory of somebody who wants you dead, because otherwise, why are you up there? And while you are flying around at bat-outa-hell speed, if you pull off your glove and touch the wind screen, you’ll burn your hand.
And if you flame-out for any reason, you only have three shots per engine at restarting, because it’s not like you can do it by clicking an igniter plug. You have to carry enough of that hypergolic restart mix to handle contingencies, but not enough to turn the aircraft into a bomb.
Flying the SR-71 was dangerous and fabulously expensive. So as soon as the military decided they could get by without it, they retired it.
That’s a shame too, because the SR-71 is the closest thing to a space plane ever built.

07/06/2024

Rudy was awesome. I can’t say enough good things about him and how much he did to help me and others as well as the company

86, died July 3, 2024. Arrangements provided by Heintz Funeral Service, Inc.. Services on Jul 08, 12:00pm at St. Anthony and St Agnes Church, Utica.

06/17/2024

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06/15/2024

Worked on the most recent three. Don’t know about the first, but the second is in our legacy

The demonstration squadron has flown a variety of jets over the years.

06/03/2024

Spelling reformers have been advocating for changes to make English spelling more intuitive and less irregular. One example of its messiness: take the “g-h” sound from “enough,” the “o” sound from “women” and the “t-i” sound from “action,” and you could argue that “g-h-o-t-...

06/03/2024

Legacy special projects

The XB-70 Valkyrie on display at the Air Force Museum was once again towed out of its display hangar temporarily for museum maintenance recently. The

05/30/2024

Ex-Belgian jets boost Ukraine’s future F-16 fleet to 85 planes.

05/29/2024

The rotors and engine exhaust of the Sikorsky-manufactured VH-92 Patriot can occasionally burn the grass when it lands, Bloomberg reported.

05/27/2024

Northrop Grumman has conducted another flight test of the US Air Force’s futuristic B-21 Raider, achieving another milestone.

05/20/2024

Predator-maker General Atomics and defense stock IPO candidate Anduril just beat out three of the U.S.'s biggest defense contractors.

05/18/2024

Didn’t realize they were still on hold

The program is trying to quash bugs that force pilots to reboot in midair, GAO says.