I've driven Mercedes cars with this gearshift, and it always takes me moment to think and adjust when I get in one. The push-button to park always takes a moment, and I usually have to look at the lever to remember which way is D and which is R. If this is, in fact the mistake that was made, I can totally see how it…

Why? Based on witness accounts and normal logic, it would seem like she'd entered the car to reverse a bit to get out of the arm's way. So why did she go forward?

Don't ask a Prius driver, because they don't even know what that is for.

It's an actual aviation term. We harassed our customer service rep for using it, then got proven wrong.

Couldn't agree more. I was just working with a test pilot who was writing a test plan to certify a new glass cockpit. It was driving him crazy. Dial gauges would have been easier.

someone installed the blades backwards.

But they knew about this back in 2010.

Self reporting to the FAA is always better than an emergency AD issued by the FAA to ground the whole fleet. The FAA will usually work towards a reasonable solution if you are honest about it.

6 months from last time. http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/lotus-trophy-b…

Two reasons why old people don't get retested.

Phoenix Heli-Flight's EC-135T2+, located in Fort McMurray, AB, Canada, is the only medivac helicopter covering most of northern Alberta. Most of the helicopters have a fiery phoenix painted on it. This one was painted with the northern lights, but the artist still manage to incorporate the phoenix into the northern…

I find it kind of funny that they design the gates to close after the baskets are released. If you were jumping into the baskets, I don't think there would be anyone else left on the platform.

Back in the mid-2000's, the Ford Focus WRC was suffering nose down attitude coming off of jumps due to the high CG. It went on a big diet. WRC cars at that time typically had separate rear brake lever and shifter. Ford combined the two levers into one. If the hydraulic shifting failed, they would connect a linkage to…

West Palm Beach to be exact.

47's landing gears don't retract.

Rule of thumb is 3 minutes between aircrafts.

Back when test pilots had big balls and no lawyers watching their every move.

In this case, it's not the driver's fault. The car had the green light.

My coworker was just telling me some of the projects he did while working at Edwards, mainly dealing with flow issues on the F-16. Like when they mounted the first Lantirn pod and the flutter it caused on the ventral fins causing them to break off. There was other ordnance they tested that was causing the tufts on the…

That's one of the reason why rally racing is so interesting. The driver/co-driver need to know how to MacGyver their car back together to get to the finish. Things like Petter Solhberg breaking the shift paddle and using vise-grip as a makeshift paddle.