Department policies or procedures cannot override civil rights nor state law. If the police department requires names etc from people who are not suspected of a crime (as is obviously the case here), then that’s their tough luck, not yours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_…

220 knots max cruise seems pretty underwhelming for such a powerful engine. For comparison: a Mooney 20J will do a 170kt cruise with 200hp. You’d think another 250hp would get you more than 50 knots, but yes, I realize resistance is a function of velocity squared yadda yadda.

The FAA report should be interesting - I wonder if the pilot truly couldn’t glide out to a suitable spot to land, or if he just yanked the ‘chute. Shortly after takeoff is certainly the worst time for failure...but also seems to indicate a lack of proper preflight. $50 says there wasn’t a proper run-up check.

That’ll be $5, son.

“We had none of the traditional navigation equipment we’re used to, the inertial navigation system, GPS, so I challenged my navigator, to do ‘dead reckoning.’ Basically he had a radar system and a doppler, so he could ground map with his radar system.”

No shivers, sorry. Not even remotely.

Yawn. Most boring car “review” ever. He basically blabs at a GoPro mounted on the dash while doing 30mph in a straight line..while they keep cutting to LR/Jag-supplied footage of the car being driven around a giant oval test circuit, or occasionally a snippet of more showy B-roll also supplied by the company. I think…

but a comfortable upright riding position.

They scrambled F16 fighters? What the hell for? That is quite possibly the worst aircraft you could possibly assign.

Given it’s a tropical location, I think that was less hot-dogging and more the normal climb rate for the air temperature and takeoff weight. I’m guessing they load that plane up to the gills luggage, passenger, and fuel-wise.

“Combat proven” is a curious way of saying “can’t fly in the rain”, and then almost ten years later, turns out, can’t fly after it’s been rained on. It’s also such a primadonna that it has to be kept in special hangars, so when we want to, say, bomb Libya, they have to leave from the other side of the world.

It’s completely natural. The plane left the runway quite a bit before it passed over the camera, and they retract the gear ASAP to get the most speed/climb rate they can.

Yep, the co-pilot starts stowing the gear almost immediately after the aft wheels leave the ground...and keep in mind that runways are typically long enough for the plane to get up to very close to takeoff speed (a decision point called V1) and then slam on the reverses and brakes and stop without going off the…

You forgot to add that instead of linking to the follow-up thread, they linked to Mashable instead. Sigh. Gawker just loves to pull the equivalent of taking a picture with your cell phone of a computer screen.

Now if only we could apply all this logic to people who swerve at / honk at / thrown shit at / scream at / beat up cyclists.

You’re expecting a lot from someone who can’t figure out “brake” versus “break.” And who thinks that a guy in a car can detect whether or not an approaching motorcyclist has a valid license.

WTF? I don’t know a single mechanic, pro or shadetree, who uses WD-40. Everyone uses PB Blaster, Liquid Wrench, Kroil, or Wurth Rost-Off. You know, actual corrosion-breaking penetrants. The latter are the only two things you’ll find in a really good shop.

Duh. You know how the Tesla Roadster’s transmission would implode?

Meeeeh. The whole point of Volvo wagons was that they had lots of usable space, because they were boxy. This is going for that swoopy look, which is pretty, but means much smaller maximum dimensions for, you know, actually loading/hauling stuff.