I think by 'fighters' he meant combatants, not literal fighter jets. The Prowler is for SAM suppression, not really air-superiority. I had heard that they had commandeered a handful of older MiGs in Syria, but I think those were of marginal value given the lack of pilots and mostly destroyed on the ground.

Now Ford needs to pick up the ball and make a drop top Mustang Trivette Edition.

Fowl cry? ;) Given your username, I say huzzah. :)

That is not at all how I thought the NOTAR system worked. That's cool!

Early in the dev cycle they had a few extremely serious incidents in which a number of passengers and crew were killed. Those failures coupled with the unorthodox design of the aircraft had many observers nervous about their potential.

Whether or not the concerns are identical to those voiced by Rogaway and others…

I want those tires so bad... That said, is it just me or does that passenger compartment seem to have remarkably similar proportions to a tactical ballistic missile?

I'm not so sure I buy the premise that avoiding books by certain authors directly equates with seeking out books by other authors, but the intention seems admirable. Books are an amazing way to dialogue with people you might not otherwise encounter, and when all of these conversations are happening with people who all…

Link is a YouTube video.

SAFER Barriers will definitely help, but I've always wondered about that grass... Sure it's pretty, but kitty litter would do a better job of bleeding speed before the wall hit in the first place... I'm also wondering about the monster apron down there.

It only takes 1.

It was a more impressive feat than it seems, as at highway speeds the rear wing would actually lever the front tires off of the freaking road surface...

Holy cow... Maybe string the fuselage with lights to mimic windows, turn on the transponder and fly in along a regularly scheduled, red-eye airline route? Poof! I'm an airliner! (At least until close enough to unload those cruise missiles on strategic targets...)

Gorgeous car, but you may end up spending all the money you saved on transmission parts if this thing is anything like the Honda factory NSX-Ts.

No other lovers of the old Autobacs livery, huh? I'm surprised, that orange and white on gold always screamed speed at me...

Navy propeller jockeys don't get nearly enough love.

Then there's that whole pesky range thing. By modern air combat standards that "Ukrainian" jet is about 8 feet from the target... When was the last time a non-BVR engagement occurred? The scaling is ridiculous... (Not to mention that that's a really ridiculous angle-of-engagement for a target as slow and steady as an…

They ought to just do what Bacardi did with Schumacher and make a fake "drink driving" awareness campaign as an excuse to sneak advertisements past the regulators. Call it a "Martini: Drink Responsibly" Livery and a PSA rather than an advertisement and it should be fine...

I've been wondering about Echo's potential for accessibility. If Amazon can genuinely connect a fair amount of the functionality of the internet along with a minimally intrusive, relatively intuitive, and reasonably interactive, voice-only platform, imagine what that kind of technology could mean for the visually…

They only create hull noise if sabotaged by an undercover military intelligence operative to prevent the captain's defection.

It's good to know that our instruments of nuclear world destruction can be less destructive to the environment.