Equating the two isn’t valid. Automatic flight even today is still very much point-to-point in space. Straight lines. Positive control airspace with some guy watching your progress from the ground ensuring strict spatial separation. And another body in the cockpit cross-checking everything you do. Plus airline…

You think that’s odd?

This clown sounds like Trump.

Original owner of a 96 Roadmaster wagon. Had it for almost 20 years, ran like a top while we raised a family. Great car, we sold it to a young couple so they could repeat the whole experience.

I don’t think there’s a gearbox there. During shutdown, both props slow at different speeds and the front prop stops completely while the rear one continues to windmill. It appears both props run off their own dedicated power turbine.

Compound shifting cutie hustling an 8v71? I think I’m in love!

BOHICA. Cue the same old unimaginative HD bashfest, yet again.

It’s sad how complete and technical this brochure was compared to today’s “automobile” literature. I think the downturn started with “Soft Corinthian Leather” and “opera lights”.

Same context? The switch from air to water cooling? Hated by the “all-knowing customer base” even though it’s a technically better vehicle? Closest analog - the Harley Davidson V-Rod.

Rolls-Royce Corniche Fixed Head Coupe, preferably in Mason’s Black. Saw it as a kid in Steve McQueen’s bank caper Thomas Crown Affair. Nothing like that POV shot of the Spirit of Ecstasy leading the way down the Mass Turnpike.

Jack Webb would have never gone for this CF.

Insofar as “elegant” is concerned, nothing tops the original: 280SE 3.5 coupe. Everything thereafter has been a slow, gradual descent into obesity. And that’s coming from a guy with a W216.M156.

Yeah, sorry, meant that for Ralph.

Having seen it first-run in a theater, you’ll never get it. Everybody’s head was bopping up and down on the hill sequence. It was amazing.

The only “real” AMG was the M156/M159 6.3 normally aspirated V-8. Designed by and for AMG. Everything else is a derivation of a stock MB engine. Correct me if I’m wrong.

Again, these are depreciation/amortization of sunk up-front exploration and drilling costs. Every company, partnership, and individual, running a business in the U.S. avails themselves to these write-offs.

Name them. I dare you. And please don’t list “depletion allowance” as a subsidy.

Rotors pivot forward and lift is derived from a wing, meaning higher cruise speeds and better fuel consumption. The joke with this Uber plane is that cranked wing makes a cross-shaft impossible. The entire concept is a poorly thought-out joke.

Sheesh. Version 18 of the downtown-to-downtown shuttle that’s always just around the corner.. Closest anybody’s come has been Bell and Agusta with the BA609 tiltrotor, a technology outgrowth of the original XV-15 and V-22 programs.

That’s nothing. Google Damascus Titan. Thank God we don’t use liquid fuels for our ICBMs anymore.