If I remember right, this one was kind of a salvage number. Turned out the front right was attached with little other than bubble gum and prayers. (Or was that May’s Mercedes?)

Scandinavia in general has always been a Russian obsession (just ask Finland). They’re neutral, so they’re unpredictable, but they’re also super strategically positioned to choke the Russian Navy out of the Atlantic. It’s also why the Russian government went so berserk about Crimea, access to the Atlantic hinges on…

You don’t necessarily show all of your best cards. They send the F22 and there’s a chance the Russians could learn things to use against the aircraft in the future. Also the F22 is pretty hard tasked for CONUS CAP. The whole point of super cruise is rapid intercepts over North American airspace.

Well and let’s be honest, Porsche needs to buy some stronger brand differentiation between the Cayman and the 911. In Turbo Guise, the Cayman was with in spitting distance of the 911 in terms of performance and prestige, despite its ‘baby brother’ status.

Catholics are still big on sublimation. It's possible he hasn't.

If I remember the debates right, Romney is a bit of a sucker for the rope-a-dope between 1 and 2.

Evidently the 1981 Chevette was a badass. If you prefer your vintage compacts with a side of misogyny, AMC’s French ad campaign guaranteed that the ladies simply couldn’t handle the machismo of the new Pacer.

I think it was that kind of scenario that killed Steve Fossett. I want to say NOVA did an episode about how mountain canyons can create such severe head and down winds they just overwhelm the aircraft’s ability to accelerate or climb. Eventually the pilot either makes a mistake or the aircraft runs out of fuel.

Kind of a random story, but my great-uncle flew that route during the war as well. Here we are 60+ years later and I’m engaged to a woman from Kunming. Turns out her grandpa (who’s 104 now) used to help unload cargo and buy American cigarettes off of the C-46 pilots at the airbase.

Oh man, at those altitudes minimal AGL is dangerously close to the service ceiling for those helicopters. Couple that with the, as you mentioned, unforgiving terrain, and these crews are really operating with no safety net whatsoever.

Say what you will, but mongooses are bad ass. They’re like honeybadgers with less YouTube cred. (And more contextually significant, they specialize in preying on dangerous predators like venomous snakes.) I guess in NATOs grantedly hamfisted metaphor, subs = snakes? Not sure what the ‘dynamic’ bit is, though...

It might be a Talbot Lago T26 Grand Sport. (You can keep your card, though. I had to google it. :) )

A lot of beauties, but that Lancia at around 1:50... Gorgeous...

Nothing extensive, I was in Riyadh for a few months during the Arab Spring, so I got to enjoy the impromptu parades around the royal compound, but nothing more substantive than that. It wasn’t a correction, merely the observation that unofficial relationships have existed along back channels for decades, so ad hoc…

Somebody’s been reading their Tom Clancy! :p

I’m not sure. Although the rhetoric from both sides suggests simmering tensions, collaboration between Israel and various Arabic and/or Islamic neighbors has been a poorly kept secret in diplomatic circles for decades.

(LOL. I’ve got way too many devices, and I for some reason Kinja reserves a separate login with an identical user name on every one... Now I can’t remember which one I posted this with! At any rate...)

Long story short, Israel has long been developing systems to protect civilian airliners from surface-to-air threats.…

Empty and on a return trip from a city that just happens to be the headquarters of both the EU and NATO? I’m thinking VIP/dignitary transport.

I’m curious about this ‘sham tcds.’ What is the placebo for electroshock to the head?

That type iii robo duck looked suspiciously like Galactus to me.