I work for Michelin. Old Bibendum is everywhere and he is effing scary.

ça va bien?

But if you stain the whole garment evenly, it’s no longer a stain, it’s dye.

It’s really easy to come home from work in decent looking clothes (assuming you work in an office and not a junk yard) and start working on the car. Before you know it, you have grease all over your garments and exposed body parts.

With LA traffic, 400 miles might be the only amount of distance you can cover reasonably in two years.

I think that note might be illegal. It isn’t in both languages.

Not an air-breathing aircraft, but a rocket plane probably could. The X-15s that were used for altitude and speed records had both aerodynamic control surfaces and maneuvering rockets for exactly that.

Also, for the craft to achieve enough lift out of the thin air, as the article says, it would have to be traveling at orbital velocity 17,000 mph, which would burn / rip the wings off of anything trying it.

Technically that is what a rocket is doing. It’s just completely ignoring the whole atmospheric lift phase of flight and powers through instead.

Not an air-breathing aircraft, but a rocket plane probably could. The X-15s that were used for altitude and speed records had both aerodynamic control surfaces and maneuvering rockets for exactly that.

Come to Saint Louis and see how confident Boeing workers are about that.

Boeing is a public company that gets tax breaks. Airbus was actually created by an agreement between several European Governments. Not sure of it’s legal structure today, but it would not have existed if those governments had not made it happen.

I am choking on laughter! I forgot about the Pepsi version.

I remember back when the A380 was launched, Boeing was being criticized for not having a worthy contender to the A380. Their plan was to squeeze more life out of the 747, and focus new development on smaller, more efficient planes. Looks like that bet paid off. Airbus will not recover the huge development costs for…

Wouldn’t be ironic if the 747 outlived yet another plane that was supposed to bury it......

Sure helps that Airbus is a quazi-government company then.

The A380 never sold in quantities to recover its $25-30 billion development cost. And they need at least 30 aircraft on order to break even annually (according to Forbes).