If there’s one complaint we have about those that own the must splendid, most impeccable machines ever completed by the aspirations of humanity, it’s that they’re not used properly. They’re sheltered, cloistered away from that which they are intended.

Considering the kind of cash that a comparable vintage Defender 110 brings, this is a steal.

Let me call my buddy...

An oil analysis thread on any car forum. Guaranteed to devolve into Royal Purple vs. ____ by the third post.

I didn’t take this video, but I was there. Word Freefall Convention, Quincy IL

In front of you is a Ferrari F430 Scuderia, a Porsche 997 GT3 RS, and a Subaru. You pick the Subaru.

Eww? Fighting words, sir.

E86?

The Nobska! I knew every inch of that boat when I was a kid.

Found it!

My guess: tried to dive, pressure hull finally caved in from all the rust and they went into a terminal dive.

ANY German luxury/sports car. Let someone else take the depreciation hit.

Simply that a vastly complex plane, which was practically invented from the ground up and with lesser resources available than today, took less time and went through less teething pain than this piece of crap.

Except it's not a plane-to-plane comparison.

Fucking hell. Kelly Johnson designed, tested and built the SR-71 in four years using nothing but slide rules and black coffee, and every single part of that plane had to be invented first.

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Pull the Stennis right up to one of the islands, drop anchor, and conduct flight ops for a few weeks.

Yes, I know the carrier needs to be moving to conduct flight ops, just go with it.

I jumped out of a cargo 727 a few times at the World Freefall Convention in the mid-90s. They had removed the air stairs and the plane circled lazily at altitude, just above stall speed, spitting out jumpers one at a time (you could only get one jumper down the ramp at a time).