No doubt.

Reality is that for ANY airplane part, a HUGE part of the price, and most of the markup over an otherwise all but identical non-airplane part, is the certification and paperwork costs. 

AA doesn’t charge to check-in your bag when you’re at the gate.

Have you flown O’Hare recently? They’ve really improved bag times on domestic flights. International flights are awful though. 

CVT’s are great. The problem is that bad CVT’s (or bad programming) are really terrible (looking at you Nissan).

Volvo did that for a while with the V60 and V90, where you could get one if you ordered it. Would be nice to see more companies offer that option; but I suspect that won’t be happening. 

added some Microsoft AI bullshit...

Yeah, I’m calling shenanigans on that one. Soldered joints aren’t prone to failure due to vibrations. Every module in the car has hundreds or even thousands of them. *Unsecured* joints are prone to failure due to vibration, particularly badly created joints. Soldering isn’t that hard, but there is some skill and a bit…

This seems more like a “catalytic converter test pipe” than a Gllock switch sold as an airsoft accessory on Alibaba.  (every gangbanger in Chicago has one)

Can’t say I’ve ever had one of my own solder joints in an automotive application fail. Maybe people just don’t do it right?

the clickbaity headline reeks of “nutrition health” tik tok: “did you know salt contains chlorine, a poison used for cleaning swimming pools? do you really want to put that in your body?”

The fuselage skin is not really 1mm thick, that’s the thinnest chem milled section, which accounts for maybe 30% of the entire area. The skin panels are either 2 or 2.2mm (0.080" or 0.090" in freedom units) thick, where they are riveted to other fuselage components like stringers and frame cleats, the 1mm (0.040" or…

The structural integrity comes from being pressurised, which is why 1mm thick aluminium is perfectly adequate. Try standing on an un-opened can of Coke, which is pressurised. Now try standing on an opened can. You get the picture. 

Aerospace and nuclear (my industry) are polar opposite when it comes to throwing material at problems. I saw that recently where I worked with an aerospace company that designed a fixture. They were concerned that the fixture weighed 750 lbs, which seemed insane to them. My design would have been 2900 lbs and I had…

He likely knows how tariffs work. What he’s counting on is American’s NOT knowing how tariffs work.

Hyundai in Alabama and recent child labor law reductions in Arkansas have been doing their best to prove that true.

Hungry Harry ~ “I know what you’re thinking. ‘Did he order six shakes or only five?’ Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one…

“They take them out of a box and they assemble them.”

You’re all missing the point. It’s not “so easy a child could do it,” he’s laying the groundwork for his child labor initiatives...

It’s called Project 2025. Republicans have never been quiet about their determination to dismantle government oversight so for-profit companies get free reign and their determination to treat their watered-down version of the bible as the new constitution.