Now I can't say it's the 'best' - but for shear quirkiness - the home of Porsche during the war years in Gmund Austria. The original design/drawing office, (moved 2 kms from work shop location for some reason) where various tanks (Tiger for one) were designed. This one reason why Porsche would like to forget this…
Mercedes - hands down. (Porsche 2nd.) Pictures taken by myself in a 2012 visit
Early 996 spare rims are pretty close...
Remove the antenna connection. It takes less then 5 minutes to do this and is generally in the trunk area on sedans and coupes. I have been told by a police connection that after organized crime groups heard that they could be listened upon by police groups whom ordered OnStar to turn on the microphone in their…
Sorry - I was thinking of this aircraft:
Only the prototype F104 had the downward firing seats. Production airframes reverted to the normal mode with Martin-Baker units.
It was interesting that it took two European teams to really do anything with the S7R. Ray Mallack had some success with it at Sebring after fighting lots of set up issues and basically developing the car instead of the constructor doing this work. He spent a lot of time and money in a university wind-tunnel in…
Nope! Mercury Astronaut Alan Shepard (aboard the Freedom 7) said that.
There was also an issue with the ejection sequencing as there was a fear that as soon as the system ejected the canopy they feared it would go straight back into the intake leading to...? They didn't know if there would be an catastrophic explosion from the debris at the moment of ejection of seat and pilot or not as…
I remember the good old days in the late 70's of driving up to Whistler (no Blackcomb in those days) on highway 99 and going across these narrow wooden trestle bridges and then being trapped in Whistler (sleeping in the car overnight in a gas station parking lot) as one of these bridges got taken out by a slide. It…
DPK = Deutscher Pudel Klub eV (German: German Poodle Club)
Get this: someone is organizing a hill climb this June where you race counter race from turn 5 through to the start finish. That should be interesting.
PDK...
Now called Canadian Tire Motorsport Park but to us old hands it will always be Mosport despite the arrival of the corporate world. Jackie Stewart called it a mini Nurburging. I have hundreds of laps around it (after marshaling here for over 25 years and doing track days) and I still learn something new every time I'm…
FYI: There was as recently as last year there was an in house study done at Bombardier on a replacement for the 415 as airframe hours on even the youngest aircraft are getting pretty high. I don't know what the study said as far as how large the market is but the Americans have found the cost effectiveness of using…
LOL. Only modern 911 owners get this joke. Good one.
My apologies I had them confused with the Turk's. See this video:
They were trained by some Canadians sent over when they bought their first batch of surplus C-215's. There was another pair bought from Buffalo Airways two years ago but if you've seen their TV show, the training didn't go over that well when one of the all Greek crew landed on the runway with the gear up and wore a…
Yes, we knew where this was going didn't we?
