Some amplification to the article and corrections to the comments. I have 260 traps aboard (mostly) the Independence and the Kennedy, one hundred of which were at night, all in the F-14A Tomcat. I was a RIO, in the backseat, though, so take what I have to say with a grain of salt; the stick monkeys see slightly…

For the toilet repair, you'd be better off using some silicone grease. Petroleum jelly will further deteriorate the rubber seal that it is temporarily "helping."

Your statement is incorrect. Lead bullets fly much farther and more accurately than do tranquilizer darts. Delivering a properly dosed dart in a velocity window somewhere between "hard enough to be accurate and to deliver the meds" and "soft enough not to punch through and maim the animal" is a very difficult…

I wonder how long before the TSA moves in.

You'd be surprised how much information you can process, and how much you can tune out. I often find myself wishing my car could display more information than it does. Sadly, I believe manufacturers build their cars for the technological lowest common denominator, so a nicely cluttered HUD would likely alienate more…

If my kids are any example, they're safe regardless of the study's validity:

The tallest fighter aircrews I knew were 6'4". I believe there were taller guys in helos.

Landing grades don't mean much, unless they are really good or really bad.

Here's the scoop on what you're seeing.

They've already done extensive simulations on this: [sebleedelisle.com]

Tilleys have had these secret compartments for years. Great hats.

Fukushima Reactors Are "Essentially Stable"?

Phil Zimmermann, creator of PGP. Fought the law, and HE won.

Ground up and in the freezer...

Just store it upside-down, on its plastic cap.

Wouldn't a big blender be easier?

@KRISTEN PHILIPKOSKI, Could you cite your source on item #10 "Heart Attack," please? I've never heard of atmospheric pressure drop being a precursor to any cardiac events. I've been in the eye of a fairly large typhoon and the pressure drop was nowhere near as rapid as some other decompressions I've been through in…

It's not 4 oz. bottles, it's 3 oz., and you're not supposed to have more of them than will fit into a one quart Zip Lock bag.

You'd look red and kind of misty.

While that is a great picture of a Tomcat D, it is not going supersonic. The vapes are from the jet's pulling a hard turn, creating a low pressure area above the lifting body and wings where the temperature drops and the moisture condenses momentarily. You can tell because a) the horizontal stabs are visibly…