Every single person I know who has ever even sat in a CLA thought it was a gigantic piece of shit.*

*does not include status-seeking luxury car neophytes or the ilk that thought their BMW 1 series was FWD

Yes.

See: Hackers (1995)

So much for your membership to the "Automotive Industry" FB group!

I'm sure you're very disappointed.

The outback ceased to be when they eliminated the manual from it for 2015 for the first time in its history.

Just like the S3.

Two pedals. Don't care.

Yes, because what we were all clamoring for was a ultrabright whitewashed screen color palette blaring right in our face while driving at night (or during the day for that matter). Great idea.

Minimalist whiteout contrast-less shit like this kills me on Windows 8, iOS, Android "Material" etc. Enough with this trend…

My second exposure to an American car was in 1986. My father had asked the rental company for something "bit like my 323i". He was an old-school Brit my father, and unlike his youngest offspring never tempted to make dramatic attention-seeking outbursts, but after a few hours lolloping along in the Buick we'd been…

Still, within those weird parallel realities either side of the pond some truly curious traits have emerged – the most amusing of which for me is that the land which embraced the automatic transmission, and which is seen by Europeans as being the land of elbow-on-the-window-frame, two-pedal driving has in certain…

4x4 with manual?
2WD crew cab with manual?
2WD with manual and leaterh or even cloth seats?
diesel with manual?

Since GM fudged the bucket and decided to make a big deal about how they were offering a manual on the Colorado/Canyon, only to make it available ONLY on the 2WD, extended cab with vinyl seats, maybe the Taco…

That's an old photo of our mini model at AAAA. Lets just say it has evolved since then, and is much more akin to what you see in the more recent concept artwork I posted above.

I think you underestimate the speeds of tiltrotors at ~30 nacelle (especially relative to conventional helicopters).

V22 is a existing airframe that was designed with a wing span shorter than optimum. this means the rotors blades are closer to the hull then they should be meaning that the space for external arms is more limited.

Tech demonstrator airframes (designed around Army-centric requirements) usually aren't.

But there are blade-fold + wing stow MPS versions that absolutely do.

A good argument can be made that shipboard compatibility is moot point with self deploy ranges up over 2000nm

This all leaves us with the glaring question: Just how much weaponry can you pack on the V-22's tricky airframe without having to permanently turn it into a dedicated gunship?

This airframe was leased back to Bell and flies with an FAA registration out of the Bell XworX test facility in Arlington, TX.

You'll also notice it has the new inlet barrier filter installed

Of course I agree; nobody's role can be representative of an entire career field. However, with the title of "Aerospace Engineer" as the headline of the interview, I'd argue that the engineering side of the job should be the focus rather than the management side, and that the interviewee would more closely fit that…

I'm sorry if I sound a bit off-put, but Project Management (or a "project management engineer") is a far cry from "Aerospace Engineer" in a practical sense. Someone coming from the automotive industry as a Project Management Engineer has essentially the exact same skills and tasking. Similarly, if she was previously…

Not everyone comes to the same conclusion

Well this is good. It sounded pretty nondescript in person with what I assume are to be the OEM factory cans when I saw a prototype in Bologna on a factory visit.

The fire truck struck the main rotor, not the tail rotor. The imbalance of damaged main rotor blades spinning at 500RPM putting an altered center of mass of the rotor disc off the centerline of the mast is more than enough to start the helicopter spinning regardless of collective setting or state of the tail rotor.

Hmm, actually its the other way around - the coanda effect-based anti-torque of the slotted tail boom is almost undetectable except in extremely still air and stationary hover. This is due to the highly non-steady downwash flow in almost all flight regimes other than pure hover with no relative wind.