@pres: Tucker's 400-hp 1200-lb modified Pitts Special can do 300+ mph.

'53 F-100.

@Joe_Bloe: Let's try that again:

@Novaload: Reminds me of this:

@so I goes to the local bar, y'know, people: Uh, one thousand kilograms is twenty-two hundred pounds.

@Ian Wish: Uh, how about the guy working in the pro shop who takes your green fees?

Does Ford still own some of Mazda? I traded in an Explorer on a Mazda5, does that keep it in the family (sorta)?

I took drivers' ed in an '81 Mitsubishi Colt, complete with Twin Stick (or SuperShift) 4 speed x Hi/Lo manual transmission. I already knew how to drive stick, so I was goofing around, and I did a compound shift — say 3 Hi into 4 Lo. That sent the instructor into a 20-minute long monologue about how he used to be a…

Hey, Castle Ford! That's where I clunker'ed my Explorer? I can't see the pictures, was an '02 dark blue Explorer there too?

I can confirm that the program is still running as of about noon ET today—just junked an old Explorer for a new Mazda 5.

@engineerd misses Uncle Pete: I wish I'd had the presence of mind to take a snap of my 4-year-old son at the right-seat controls of the Cessna 182 we were flying over July 4th weekend. Of course, I was at the left-seat controls, trying to keep the plane upright, so I probably wouldn't have been able to work the…

@CaptMatt15 is high on 9000 rpm: This is the airport in Falmouth, MA, where my inlaws live. I bring a Piper Seneca (same fuselage as your dad's Saratoga, but a twin engine) in there three or four times a year. 2300 feet, trees all around, usually windy:

@MaxSmart32: That was the first thought that popped into my head. I NEED daily DOTS, junkyard finds, goofy budget build stories, and I need them NOW.

@acarr260: heh, ok, how about this: one F-1 put out more thrust than all three Space Shuttle main (liquid fuel) engines combined. Saturn V had five of them. The combined propellant flow rate for all five F-1s would empty a 30,000 gallon swimming pool in 8.9 seconds.

My wife and kids took me to the Air and Space museum for Father's day, and I spent about 10 minutes just looking up the nozzle of a mock-up of the F-1 rocket motor. The thing is the same diameter as a 737 fuselage. The turbine engine to run the fuel pump put out 55,000 horsepower. The motor burned two tons of LOX…

@Dhillaz drives a Chevrolet Taco: Yeah, I liked that bit too.

@Stoatmaster: I dunno, I read that as a play on words, because the moon landing didn't actually happen in this world — it happened somewhere else.

@suidroccA suidellik suibilaM: Toe-thumbs? heh. Made me think of an old motorcycle racer I knew, Randy Renfrow, who lost a thumb in a racing accident and had one of his big toes grafted to his hand! Really weird to see, but I guess it worked...

@petersterncan: Airliners are usually not owned by the airline, but by leasing corporations that specialize in airliners. They just lease it out again.

@PHIL: And a landing where you can reuse the equipment another day is a great one.