I worked at SAC HQ in Bellevue, NE from 1985 - 1988 with full access to the Air Force Emergency War Order (EWO) publications. Despite essentially knowing how WWIII would play out, if it ever occurred, along with a TS-BI clearance with CNWDI, Senior Year and Senior Crown access (look it up), I never even knew the F-117…

Number of doors be damned, this is a much better “retro” execution than the one featured in the story.

TPA is my home airport. Almost 750,000 miles out of it and it is, hands down, one of the best non-hub airports in the world.  Small airports like Jackson Hole, Manchester, NH, Boseman, MT are easy as hell too, but for mid-size airports, you won’t find another better than Tampa.

I’m already >75,000 miles this year on United (Platinum) and should easily hit 1K. I have both TSA pre-check and Global Entry and couldn’t image life without them. To the previous post....they’ve sold this privilege to people who travel twice a year and have no fucking idea what they are doing, thereby nullifying the…

Aside from the center console cup holders and a mention of the info screen resolution and lane tracking, not a single sentence dedicated to the driver’s ergonomics, controls, or technology bits.

The author of the article wrote: “I’m not sure how you put the car in neutral or reverse.” If an automotive journalist isn’t sure, then it is a clunky design IMO. Perhaps is should have said “obvious” instead of “intuitive.”

If it’s not intuitive looking at it, it’s clumsy. I think Mercedes with the stalk auto is the best there is. Up for reverse, down for drive, in for park.

Damn.

What jeep costs $90K?? I haven’t purchased a new car since 2003 but I didn’t know a 90K jeep even existed. without being modded out into a bro-dozer style vehicle

I also lost the hearing in my right ear due to a bacterial infection. It was then that I realized I was right-ear dominant. 

I see what you did there.  Gold star for you.

That van was the single greatest vehicle from my childhood. 

Then what do I get? Surely there is a Participation Ribbon to be bestowed upon me. Right? I get a ribbon right? Please tell me I get something.

The poster was saying there was no fuel on board (his reasoning for no fire). I say “highly unlikely” that the aircraft ran out of gas.  The next poster tried to say the USAF Thunderbird crash was because the aircraft ran out of gas. Not true. A mechanical issue caused fuel to stop be delivered to the engine. My point…

Exactly, mechanical. Show me an AF or Navy crash caused by fuel starvation not caused by a mechanical issue. Difficulty....do not include multiple go-arounds on a carrier landing or inability to refuel during a sortie. Military pilots and their crew chiefs are far too disciplined to let it happen.

It was a throttle malfunction that cut off fuel to the aircraft, not fuel starvation (aka out of gas). He was flying in a 5-ship and all other returned without incident.

Come on. Do you honestly think any Air Force pilot is going to put themselves in a low fuel situation? I spent 11 years in the Air Force, mostly around F-16s (Hahn, Kunsan, MacDill) and can tell you that ain’t happening.

I’m thoroughly annoyed at the placement of the Blazer badge on the doors being so high up. It’s wrong on so many levels.