Cool! I'm usually on the receiving end of the De/Anti-Icing (I fly the 737). Interesting to hear it from another perspective and not just from reading the Winter Ops manual :) !

And that is why it is a certification requirement for commercial aircraft seating 44 or more to be able to evacuate all passengers (in max. density configuration) in 90 seconds, through 50% of the exits in a night time environment.

Strange, I went off of info given in the live stream, must have been to soon in my celebrations.

They made it! Landing gear has been retracted and the harpoons have fired, telemetry is coming back and it looks like it has been a complete succes!

Apparently there have been some issues with the stabilizing thrusters that keep Philae pressed against the comet when the "harpoons" that anchor it fire into it. Due to the low gravity there, without the thrusters there is a chance that the firing of the anchors push it off the comet.

This is correct, EU regs regulate the total length of the truck + trailer and in the US only the length of the trailer is measured.

Oh this is not a DIY job, that paintjob is FACTORY ;). Google VW Golf Harlequin or VW Polo Harlequin

Nope, in general an aircraft's autopilot cannot fly completely by itself. It can't do an automatic take-off at all, or an automatic landing without some pilot input. And it still needs programming by the flight crew to work properly.

I was looking at one for sale near me, just a few weeks ago. A '71, dark blue, with blue interior, it looked really nice and clean and was very reasonably priced. But as all bargains, it was gone in a heartbeat. I was out of town for the week and someone snapped it up.

That's scary. 17:50 MSK (Moscow Standard Time) is 13:50 UTC (Universal Time Coordinated). The time that radar contact was lost with the MH17 was 13:43UTC, ie 7 minutes before the message from the militia. The Progress mine is just east of Donesk, near the location of the crash site. See: http://www.infomine.com/index/p…

I always like the EGPWS training we do in the simulator (terrain escape manoeuvres and the like, similar to what you did in the Corvair). Really shows off the system and the surprising performace of the aircraft (I fly the 737) when you really push it.

Most of them are Xk120's, only the front right is a C-type and the back right is a D-type.

But the temperature does drop when it goes through the turbine of the turbocharger, since you are using the energy in the exhaust gasses. It doesn't only "take" the physical force, it reduces the total energy in the gasses, and therefore the exhaust temperature also lowers. Also the air expands after going through the…

If you attach it right, you get some awesome footage :

The current gen Vito/Viano (and it looks like this is still based on the same architecture) is RWD, so good chance this is too.

There is already a Spa 12 hrs, only for GT3 cars though.

Be careful, most things in here don't react too well to bullets.

I all fairness, that NSX rendering does look like the cancelled successor to the NSX from 2008, which spawned the HSV-010 GT racecar.

Not really, I used to fly out of that airport during my flight training (it Evora in Portugal, LPEV) and on that side of the runway the ground drops away quite sharply. Mind you the wingtip is still close to the ground but not as crazy close at it seems in the video.

The pilot, Ray Hanna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Hanna a pretty legendary guy in aviation circles ) also did this flyby at the 1998 Goodwood Revival