23 Years ago, I worked for a well-known British Games studio on the third iteration of a popular racing franchise.

A few years ago I went for a Job interview at an electronics firm in Kidlington, north of Oxford. Their factory was located straight across the road from the industrial unit where TWR had built the Jaguars that competed at, and won Le Mans.

I think if something’s been a thing for 25+ years, it;s probably past the “fad” point. It’s not like pogs or fidget spinners.

PSA product planners totally goofed with the Cactus.

During the later stages of WW2, and then in the Korean War (where the Centurion served) British tanks wore the star as (officially) it was a symbol of the Allies, rather than the US. In WW2 it was usually only on upper surfaces to deter air attacks from allied fighters.

It’s definitely ghostwritten - I’m sure he names and credits the ghostwriter in the intro or at the end. I got this book about a year ago and really enjoyed it. There’s plenty of little technical bits for those that like them (and I do) and in places it’s pretty funny. There are a couple of bits where it seems he’s a b…

You should check out the Napier deltic. It’s three of these engines formed into a trianglular prism.

Because there were two, actually seperate, organisations at work, at the same time.

good lord I know exactly where that photo was taken - that’s Chesterton windmill, about 5 miles from the engineering centre at Gaydon, warwickshire.

To be a “complex” aircraft, it needs to have a variable-pitch propeller, in-flight adjustable flaps, and retractable landing gear. It’s the last one that differentiates this plane from the average Cessna 172-alike.

It has a towbar/tow hitch (Don’t know what the american term is, but the ball that a trailer attaches to), so at a guess this is a wind deflector to go over a caravan/trailer.

I don’t think that’s a Ferrari. also - it has headlights on stalks...

The situation with Ford is complicated somewhat by the fact that they haven’t built and sold the necessary road cars to be legal to race in the class. they’ve designed an out-and-out race car, continued to develop it and at the end of the year will sell road cars. In addition, in the run-up to the race (after Spa and…

Rule changes. The engine capacity limit for LMP1 was reduced in 2011 making the V12 no longer legal.

Just a note - if you’re talking about the British Army - it quite pointedly is not the “Royal” Army (as opposed to the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force). The British Army is considered to be the continuation of Cromwell’s “Parliamentary” Army (“New model army”/ “roundheads”) that defeated the royalists in the English…

Not cheating. it was clever, and within the rules. it got banned, but that’s not the same thing.

Great article for the most part, but I think there’s an element of missing the point here. The design brief for a space shuttle is to throw away as little as possible, and if you must throw stuff away, it should be the cheap stuff. So, it makes sense not to throw away your main engines on each launch. The shuttle…

3-door fiat unos had this :

The Porsche 956/962. Defined a class, and dominated it. still competitive nearly 10 years after its introduction. Adaptable, tough, and beautiful.

Small Correction: it's marcel fassler, not Michael.