I can't believe anybody didn't cite the Rolls-Royce (now Bentley) L410I 6.75 liter V-8. Now the longest running production engine since Lamborghini completely redesigned their V-12 recently. Started with 200 HP and is now pumping out over 500.

Is the Chinese UAV capable of operating autonomously from a carrier? No? Well, that's the 5 billion dollar question right there.

The X-47B program is located at Patuxent River, Maryland. I wouldn't call that base "remote".

Best Post of the Week.

What's amazing to me is he didn't damage the runway or taxiways.

Actually, they build the all-composite V-22 in Amarillo. Maybe McLaren could use some help with their composites.

The real tragedy is if Beech could have held out a bit longer they might have sold into an uptick in the late 90s. The Piaggio Avanti suffered the same near-death experience, but patient capital enabled it to make a comeback.

The all-composite Starships were all incinerated on Beechcraft's orders. Only a handful left.

What's all this "water" shit? San Francisco built and owns Hetch Hetchy reservoir. You know? The equivalent of the Yosemite Valley the godless sodomites dammed up for *their* water supply?

C'mon. These 'sport' wagons with 2 feet of floor space in the back aren't "wagons" - they're cheaply redesigned sedans sans trunk. A real American wagon can swallow a 4x8 sheet of plywood with the rear seat down and tailgate shut. It can also tow 4,000 pounds without breaking a sweat. Hell, just bring back the…

It's a facsimile rattan wicker body, reminiscent of an older era of coachbuilt limosine.

Still the most beautiful aircraft ever designed and flown.

Apart from the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and possibly the Federalist Papers, *Idiocracy* is probably *the* definitive literary work of American civics and culture. I like how it's set 500 years in the future. At the rate we're going, it's more like 5 years.

Agreed. The original Grosser 600 was a master stroke of design and marketing genius. A design derivative of the existing product lineup with brutish overtones, it seethed power and exclusivity (hydraulic windows, anyone?). The public reveled in the "despots' favorite ride", and Clarkson joked owners of the 600 were…

Gawd, I remember that thing in Exposition Park. You'd push this big red button and it converted propane into pure noise. Shook the entire museum. Probably dangerous as hell, but those were the days!

I'm betting that doesn't have a 2-channel, dual redundant stability augmentation system, right?

Pretty limited number of GTS imported. Around 200-250, IIRC. Instant collectable.

Hell, keep your Frenchie bizjet, I still want them to bring back the Starship.

My favorite all time ye olde Chumash SoCal name: "Hueneme", as in Port Hueneme up by yet another great SoCal name, Oxnard. I love watching the first-timers try and sound it out.

The Gulfstream was originally called the Grumman Gulfstream. You know, the guys who built military aircraft and the Lunar Excursion Module and are now Northrop Grumman.