What’s my option if I want to take my skis up to the slopes? Some sort of tow-hitch-mounted contraption?

All of those shots with the rear-facing cameras instead of the (actually, y’know, legal) side mirrors make it look like the thing’s wearing a straitjacket.

Even the crews’ gestures and radio language will be tightly controlled under this new agreement.

Maybe that pool needs to be drained in the most totally radical way possible. It could happen!

She hoped to BUST THE CASE WIDE OPEN, clearly.

I used to do conference work across the US, sometimes 3-5 conferences at a stretch. Since HQ was already shipping conference materials in multiple boxes, it was easy to throw my clothes for each stop (wrapped in a plastic bag) into the empty space and just fly with a laptop bag. I shipped my laundry back home the same…

Is equipped with own breadline!

Huh. Learned something new today.

Yeah, I embarrassed myself at Target learning that.

Can that extra time be mitigated if the customer is prompted to dip (, baby, dip) at the beginning of the transaction, while the cashier is swiping their purchases across the scanner? In other words, are (or could) the POS systems be configured to allow users to insert their card before the cashier rings up a subtotal?

Those air-to-air shots are great. The WSO is keeping the camera trained on the target out in front. That’s rad...but it also makes me believe that F-14 Tomcat crews would easily, easily have made the best cockpit videos ever. None of this dubstep-laden, 2.5-second average-shot-length mashup nonsense. We’d have gotten…

Bounties, like software manufacturers have for bugs. Give a cash payout to anybody who can prove (really, scientifically prove) a statistically significant discrepancy between the claimed figures and the real-world figures. Then bill the manufacturer for, oh, say 20x the value of the bounty.

This would answer my questions about why no other automaker raised the alarm before now. If manufacturers are diligent about reverse-engineering and benchmarking their competitors’ products (and they surely are), shouldn’t VW’s shenanigans have come to light soon after they began? The only explanation that makes sense…

Great story and a great write-up. The insight you provide is tremendous. Congrats, and thank you!

I’m no aerodynamicist, but damn it sure looks to my untrained eye like the center of gravity and center of lift points on that aircraft would be all sorts of messed up. How does it keep from tucking its nose and just tumbling...?

TIL Boeing engineers are magical sorcerers, I guess.

Ahahaha, HIYOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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Hahaha, I love the middle finger raised toward subtlety in these shots. Because of course you need two single-seaters stashed aboard your superyacht.

I’m with you on this one; sorry, Tav.

My dad had one. Tailgunning imaginary TIE fighters from the way-back was every bit as awesome as you’d assume.