Really appreciate that insight. People think of him as a crazy guy (and sometimes he is), but he is probably one of the best pure car controllers out there. I think that’s why he’s within 3 poles of tying Mario Andretti for the record for all-time poles.

That’s a critical point. He saved enough P2P that he could have probably fended off a Rossi pass if he got into passing position a lap or 2 earlier.

There will be a lot of breathless prose for Rossi’s closure on Power in the last 20 laps, but none of the announcers (radio or TV) seemed to think that Power could hold him off. Power maintaining an adequate pace to win while minimizing tire degradation was a truly brilliant performance of a very experienced driver…

I haven’t seen it in a long time, but I recall him giving an excellent performance in “The Comfort of Strangers.” Alongside Helen Mirren. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099292/

I know I’m terribly late to this, but I’d point out that this one was due to fuel starvation, which would not necessarily be less likely on a 4-engine jet.

Space-based telescopes are more productive in the IR wavelengths. You won’t see another replacement aircraft-mounted IR telescope.

Valerie Insinna over at DefenseNews has also written about this.

Just in case I didn’t do the link correctly:

They’re being very cagey with the schedule, but this leads me to believe it’s not near testing. One of the main contractors went belly up, and they’ve had to try and replace them in the middle of COVID. Delivery date seems to be stretching out into mid-2025 (3 years from now), which is not all just testing.

A lot of that time is also installing interior, and a huge set of systems, including communications systems and defensie countermeasures like DIRCM.

The two “Air Force One” 747s are being built on airframes that were completed but not delivered to a Russian airline. The conversion effort is not being done on the 747 assembly line, but in a Boeing facility in San Antonio, Texas.  https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27179/exclusive-photos-future-air-force-one-747-h…

Very nice article. Inaccurate headline (I know that you probably don’t write the headlines, and your article made it clear that it is ending production soon, not retiring).

I always think of her as a road course racer first, having outperformed teammate Tony Kanaan on road and street courses on the one year where she had competitive equipment, and having scored a podium.

The ULA Atlas V uses the Russian RD-180, and will continue to do so for a while. It’s actually quite an impressive engine, and fundamentally reset what Americans thought a liquid engine could do. We already have the engines for the remainder of the program in the US, though, so any embargo should have no impact on…

For the 911, there is at least a reason: they were trying to emulate the style of the 935 race car and create a 935 for the street, and the fender design was a rather iconic element of 935 design. And they weren’t going to be able to make it street legal with the low headlights of the racing 935s.

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“Choose-Your-Own-Gear Automatic Transmissions”

No joke - they go to great lengths to get that crinkly effect. It limits contact between the various layers of thermal insulation and prevents heat transfer.

Delaware is pretty clean.

That’s a bit of an exaggeration - while there was some design and technology heritage, it was not anywhere close to a copy. The WFIRST/Nancy Grace Roman telescope, however, is literally a leftover telescope (possibly from the aborted Future Imagery Architecture project) donated by the National Reconaissance Office to…