Congrats to Toyota and Alonso, Buemi and Nakajima.

Yeah, no, I am gonna stoop that low. Sue me.

Keep fighting the good fight, any other take besides this one is a stupid and bad take.

Toyota have done it! The Dark Souls of racing is beaten! Long have we waited.

This is somehow both the most predictable take and the worst one.

In awe at the size of this lad. Absolute unit.

Speaking of places to put an engine...

Bad places to put plane engines:

My thoughts exactly.

So Donald Trump is either incredibly stupid or amazingly racist.

There are 4 masks for each set of 3 seats. Always always always do yours first. As the parent of a 2 year old, I know how tempting it would be to put theirs on first, but do yours. That way you would be as clear headed as possible when doing theirs. That’s also why they would never let a row have 2 lap children.

It’s amazing just how well good pilots operate. It’s as if in an emergency they shut down all the extraneous parts of themselves, and only the analytic and expert stuff comes out. It’s not like they’re machines - quite the opposite, they make decisions and improvise in ways machines simply can’t - but rather, as if…

“We have part of the aircraft missing so we’re going to need to slow down a bit.”

Have you read the first chapter of The Right Stuff? They cover that specifically, and Tom Wolfe discusses Chuck Yeager specifically doing that “Aw shucks, we’ve got a problem here” voice. It’s also true for astronauts (who were initially all pilots). The Apollo 13 audio is extremely calm.

After listening to the audio, and how chill she was during the whole landing, I was expecting her to put in a lunch order for her and the co-pilot.

I love window seats....more specifically I love window seats right over the wing so I can watch the wing flaps doing stuff. (Also, I always figured this would be the strongest, most reinforced part of the plane.) If I’m seeing the stories correctly, this would be the seat where the shrapnel hit. Bummer.

On the plane I fly when a major malfunction occurs we disengage the autopilot, regain control of the aircraft run any drills and then and only then do we consider engaging the autopilot again.

Curious how much automated systems, when still intact, take over for certain airplanes when there’s an imbalance (lost engine, broken wing, etc.)? Regardless, glad she got it down safely. She’s BA. BTW, why are they all squinting? I think aviator glasses and pilots went hand-in-hand?

It’s just a different flavour of shit, I assure you.

Because 99% of you asshats ARE just standing there when the light changes. Not to mention you should probably be watching the 18 wheeler that just lost it’s brakes behind you or the cyclist coming up the shoulder or the emergency vehicle entering the intersection or the moose that’s eating your side view mirror or...