When you've ridden a Saturn V, the difference between a jet engine and a prop engine becomes immaterial.

I'd be surprised to see a pilot endorse that

Developers are such on-the-spectrum nitpickers. I guess that is what makes them good at their jobs and such unenjoyable cocktail party companions.

Says the one who managed to insult autistic people and engineers at the same time?

Many of the best partiers I know are on the spectrum.

You guys dress poorly too.

Is it even a nitpick in this case? It would have been substantially more badass to die flying a jet at 90. If it's relevant to the point I don't see how it's a nitpick.

Now picking on a particular model distinction or something like that I could get on board with.

It depends on what you mean by “jet.” There’s no way he’d be allowed to fly a fighter jet or anything else with a turbojet engine at this point in his life. The medical waiver he was on wouldn’t allow it.

so many fails in such a short response. Assuming someone's profession based on almost nothing, general stereotyping, armchair mental diagnosis, insult based on 'diagnosis' that's needless and honestly irrelevant. Reminds me of the common backhanded insult on reddit, "you must be a blast at parties"

What kind of pilot would be taken seriously if they mix up such a basic aspect of professional knowledge? Jets and prop planes are very different beasts.

I can't think of any job where you can just casually mix up different classes of objects and not eventually have it result in some significant failure.

"Why did you feed the mules and not the horses?" "Don't be so autistic. I bet you're a blast a parties"

"Why did you give me cheeseburgers? The customer ordered plain burgers." "Don't be so autistic. I bet you're a blast at parties"

Yes, being specific about the things you work with is generally a sign that someone is good at their job, but it generally doesn't have much to do with autism. But I guess being condescending is what makes a good cocktail party companion?

You must be a blast at parties.

Some truth to this. But if it wasn't for that mindset you'd be having your cocktail party in a cave.

Dare I bite: Why?

Once you have ridden a rocket, everything else seems slow:

https://xkcd.com/1701/

I think you overlook the fact that a clarification between a jet and a propeller is rather irrelevant to one's appreciation for speed.

Turboprop, I guess you are both basically right

Only the T34C is a turboprop. It appears Anders had a T34A which is equipped with a piston engine.

Turboprops are not jets, it is the wrong term.

A turbine engine may be a jet engine or it may not in the case of a turboprop.

Jet aircraft use jet propulsion not propeller propulsion.

A jet gets significant thrust from exhaust gases, a turboprop gets almost none from exhaust gases, some turboprops actually are reversed intake in the rear pushing exhaust out the front like the PT6.

Turbofans are considered jet propulsion as the both the exhaust gas and fan gas are pushing though an exhaust orifice rather than the fan being in open air as is the case with a turbo-prop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_propulsion

You are correct and no offense taken at all. Thank you for the additional detail.