My takeaway from this - Indycars started looking not so hot in the early ‘80s, got more beautiful, peaked in 1993, and went downhill from there . . .

Some places just have a strong impulse to assume homicide whenever any sort of accidental death occurs. I remember Senna’s death; that was treated as a homicide, and Adrian Newey and Patrick Head faced  a trial for manslaughter, although they were ultimately acquitted.

Usually, the airline dispatchers do the weight and balance calculations for each flight.

And if you had to pick a specific flat 6, I’d go with the watercooled (and confusingly named) Type 935 that equipped the Porsche 956 and 962, leading to wins in ‘82-’87 and ‘94.

I know that Porsche is represented here with the 917 flat 12 and the VW boxer, but the flat 6 dominated for so long at Le Mans, both in GTs and prototypes, I think it warrants another entry on the list.

I’m about to watch the Blancolirio channel’s coverage of this - Juan Browne is a professional ATP pilot usually a pretty thorough reviewer of the NTSB findings on his YouTube channel.

Power’s drive from last to third was astounding.

Sorry for my ignorance, but where did you see him interview someone?

What we see here is that there are a few routes/carriers for which it works as airline traffic returns post-COVID, and they can fulfill their requirements from existing stocks. I don’t see many airlines clamoring for the resumption of its production.

This is because the term “toe clip” far predates clipless pedal systems and refers to what another person called “cages.” The piece in the shoe is called a “cleat.” (see below for reference - a vintage bike shop and a modern bike shop)

We need to be careful with our terminology. Toe clips (and straps) (Pull back to get out of, and can get hung up on shoes with treaded soles, which is what appears to have happened to President Biden):

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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: