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Why do we time and again see this horrible blog spam, that is The Drive magazine? All they do is keep padding the prose until it is 8-10 paragraphs while paraphrasing and quoting the original source. Stratechery does that as well, but also provides original commentary and insight. The Drive is a terrible source of information.

Just link to straight to Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evhrk5tY-Yo

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I find The Drive's content on military and defense news to be pretty valuable and distinctive. Even if they're just an aggregator (which honestly doesn't seem the case to me, at least in this domain), they're aggregating from sources I wouldn't think to look at myself.

And straight to the course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-...

I tend to agree..it's a style thing. It has been when the lead author has written for other sites as well. I think it is subtly different from blog spam in that those pargraphs provide a ton of valuable information, but in an attempt to be detailed and precise can become redundant and a bit of a slog. Tyler has an enormous amount of knowledge and...sometimes overexplains or over introduces the simple point he is trying to make for my tastes. It seems to assume every article reader starts from absolutely zero knowledge.

While I generally agree with your sentiment, I didn't watch the video and was satisfied reading summary in the linked article.

The article almost made me not watch the video. It is poorly written, by someone not versed in aviation terminology. Much of what said of "raptor pilots" is in fact true of all fighters. And some of the facts are so awkwardly worded that they are borderline incorrect. For instance, the F-22 does not fly at 60-65,000 feet. That is its service ceiling, its maximum possible altitude.

> For instance, the F-22 does not fly at 60-65,000 feet. That is its service ceiling, its maximum possible altitude.

So it flies at 60-65k feet. I don’t see how that is wrong? If a pilot wants to keep cruising along at that altitude it is apparently possible, even if they might not generally do so.

Actually, TFA says:

> ... Gordon notes the aircraft flies at altitudes from 60,000-65,000 feet.

Which would make landings rather difficult.

My thought exactly :)

The video's over an hour long. The Drive article provides a useful summary so you can decide if you want to watch the video, which is why I linked to it.

Why do we have hacker news? Real nerds read the whole internet every day.

> Real nerds read the whole internet every day.

Hey, they have their AI read it all, and prepare a precis :)

They gave a good summary, and links to the video, which is really interesting. What do you want more? Not everyone has 1hr to spend to watch the whole thing.

That is probably where they found the YouTube video in the first place, and they wanted to relay that part and give original citation.

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