The Soviet Union had some amazing achievements in aviation, but sadly most are forgotten in the Western World because of the Cold War. In 1935 the ANT-25 designed by Andrei Tupolev set a distance record by flying from Moscow, over the North Pole, across all of Canada, and finally landing near Portland, OR. 3 people,…

Top Gear Polar Special. First Vehicle to drive to the North Pole. I vote this one.

True true is true.

You shouldn't joke, this hailstorm made the entire country surrender.

You know what is the ultimate tailgating deterrent? not loafing in the passing lane

In honor of those who lost their lives while serving our country, I would like to share with you President Ronald Reagan's 1986 Memorial Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery:

How many people were yelling at their TVs saying, "Full screen godammit!"?

Nigger. Sue me.

The most ubiquitous of them all, at least in the U.S. has to be the military's line of Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicles (CUCV), which started with the M880, otherwise known as a Dodge W-200, which were sold to the military by Chrysler in the 1970s:

Hilux. Not just for revolutionaries and rebels; this one is being used by the Transitional Council in Afghanistan. They were used by the Sudanese Army and by both sides in the Darfur conflict.

Douglas DC-3. The essential prewar airliner became the essential wartime transport.

I've always found the conversion of ocean liners into troop ships to be nothing short of amazing, particularly Cunard's two queens, the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth. These ships were built as massive, incredibly luxurious ways to cross the ocean at high speed for two thousand or so passengers at a time. In mere…

So you repeat that something is wrong even when you know it is wrong...

Why do you keep writing "blimp" when this is, in fact, a zeppelin? Blimps by definition do not have a rigid structure inside their envelope.

Why don't we just try to lower the safety and emissions standards instead?

So by that logic it's ok to associate every feat of american engineering like all of the amazing NASA stuff with the fact that USA have murdered more people than all other countries combined in the last 20 or 30 years or so? Waging corporate wars for profit and power disguised by nazi-worthy propaganda as striving for…

I don't exactly know that they were "built by Nazi's." Do you? Built by Germans in a Nazi country perhaps, yes. But the mechanics who built and maintained the cars were probably just dudes who wanted to race, happened to be German, and "hey these crazy government guys are going to pay for us to do that". Keep in mind…

Same here. Those machines were amazing feats of engineering (as were many other things coming from Germany during that time) and have absolutely nothing to do with nazi ideology or the horrific things that happened back then.
Stop being so overly politically correct.

I was going to say something along these lines too. The cars can't help who built them.