Anything technology that the government uses, besides the spooks, is old technology. First you have to put out a solicitation, wait for the bids to come in, award the contract, evaluate the product, then finally field the product. This is why a lot of cops still carry flip phones as their work phones.

If you want to read more about the program, http://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks…

When I fly, my simple solution to babies is to bring good ear plugs. It solves the problem of crying babies, people watching movies on their laptops without headphones, obnoxious loud talkers, snorers, and many more.

Spring loaded thumb screw.

Jalopnik isn't in chinese.

They are also buying up McMansions in Arcadia, Ca. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-… all while going to college on financial aid.

Volvo has priced themselves into the luxury market which they have a hard time competing. In the US, the cheapest is still mid $30's. Add in a few options and you are at least $40K. The typical Volvo owner probably won't want their kids puking in a $40K wagon.

Miss one everyday activity.

It was filmed all over LA. Some of the locations are a good 10 miles apart.

People these days have forgotten how to have fun. A couple weeks ago, a C-17 was coming back from training. It was cleared to do a couple of touch and go at the local international airport. The pilot lived nearby so he did a couple of low passes over the soccer field where his daughter was playing. It was a couple of…

Just watched the credits, nothing about being based on a true story. The beginning of the film, it does say "Some of this actually happened."

If you sit through the credits, there's these words that show up, "All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental." And that's how you throw out this lawsuit.

Dump truck, troop carrier, same thing. Any vehicle is an asset worth destroying.

In the helicopter crash that I mentioned, it was 7 fatalities. These folks transport at least a hundred people per day. The fact that they discovered the improper maintenance on almost all the aircraft put a lot of people's life in danger. The issue with maintenance personnel was discovered again 6 months later in a…

It's a problem because it holds up insurance payouts, lawsuits, corrective actions, etc. The reports are done within a few months. NTSB sits on it for a year if there are no fatalities and up to two years if there are. Basically it's for people to forget what happen so by the time they release the report, no one would…

Gary Fadden's incident, road rage turn into full auto shoot out at HK facility should be number 1.

The problem with NTSB is it takes a year to two years before they finalize the report.

Mini.

Northrup F-20 Tigershark. Quite a capable fighter, but politics prevented it from ever selling. People that flew it thought it was better than the F-16. Third world countries were more interested in buying what the US was using when the F-16 was offered up for sale. Northrup ended writing off the project as a $100…

X-29 program was like any other X-plane program, just a technology demonstrator. It was a DARPA project to test FSW. DARPA couldn't run the project. Air Force wanted nothing to do with it because they didn't want another YF-16 program forced onto them. NASA was the best suited organization, but eventually require the…