SalsaShark
SalsaShark
SalsaShark

Are they releasing a turbo'd shooting brake version? No? Meh.

Man, I love watching that thing fly. At first glance it looks like such a big, goony turkey that you almost wonder how it can maneuver so well. I guess though that all that flat, wide space between the wings is one giant lifting body? If that's the case, and it helps reduce the loading on the actual wings, I guess

Yeah, well, Mr. ape_ck doesn't even get out of bed for anything that isn't big enough for a helipad.

Is that an electrical harness or a BDSM harness? It seems designed for maximum pain.

Yeah, but the same wire keeps changing colors! "Different colored wires" indeed, sir. Points awarded for obfuscating badassery.

I would be forever popping it into neutral pretending that was a throttle.

Ahh, gotcha. Thanks for the knowledge!

Honestly. Dude's got serious rhythm...I wonder if he plays the drums

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This one might be a different pilot, but it has a few more viewpoints, including inside the cockpit, and looking down on the trailer from the cabin. Great stuff, although, trigger warning: features Awolnation's "Sail."

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This steely-eyed missile man sling-loading Christmas trees. Somebody forgot to tell him that inertia is a thing, I guess.

Feet off those brakes, fellas.

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"Star Wars Canyon" in Oman. US/Allied pilots used to (train? ingress?) there during Gulf War I. (No audio, so you will have to find your own clip of "Danger Zone.")

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The Blues ninja-ing the bejesus out of the pleasure boats in the harbor during Fleet Week:

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Do obviously-faked fakety fake-ass "stuntz" count?

There's also nothing like yelling "STUDEBAKER SCOTSMAN!" at the top of your lungs in a poor imitation of a Scottish brogue. Try it.

Intellectual Humility, i.e., the notion that "just because I thought of it doesn't mean it's right."

I had a daydream recently about Kickstarting an effort to build a retro-resto Studebaker Scotsman, the original economy car: