In om,
Moggycat radiated into the WorldWideWait:

But we've moved on a great deal since 1994! It's been known for
quite a while that Lift Demons are really only suited for military
uses. Outside of military aviation, Lift Demons are passe - they
have notoriously short attention spans and the ones used on
Harriers have problems discriminating between air and water.
Inbreeding in pursuit of the ultimate high performance Lift Demon
may have been the cause. The way ahead lies with Thrust Pixies,
large amounts of lemon fondant icing and in-flight Hugh Grant
movies, at least in civil aviation.

Thrust Pixies are fine for pixilated civilians and the Air Farce.
Lift Demons were good in years past.
But now, Naval Aviation is all Angel-powered. The very best ones are
Blue Angels, of course. That's why they report their altitude as
"angels twenty" or such...
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From the one-and-only Holy Moses®