The CH53 is moving pretty fast: the chinook starts to turn sideways and exponentially increases the air drag that the CH53 has to overcome. If you are sling loading something under a helicopter and the object at the end of the sling suddenly encounters a lot of drag or gets hung up on something, it actually causes…

So you get taxed in SF for your cross country roadtrip miles? Seems legit...

I didn't know that until they updated the information. I wonder why he couldn't fly it then?

You'd think that someone who was attempting to steal a plane to make an escape wouldn't go for something requiring months of training to operate. Just jumping in the cockpit of one of those is intimidating.

Eh, I was 13 or 14 in 1998. That is still considered childhood, right?

You, sir, just brought me back to childhood.

Uh, of course not all the lift is generated at the tip and is dispersed through the length of the wing, but there is quite a large safety margin in aircraft design like iceman said. A plane like that Saab 340 can probably safely handle 3+ G loads on the wings fully loaded with a safety margin of 150% or so. The…

He probably wanted to try the Royale with cheese

I would hope the wing can support the aircraft, what do you think holds it up in flight?

This is no different than a cruise missile. A single Tomahawk costs $830,000 and is a one-time-use item. Why not deploy a fighter jet to fly over the target and drop a cheap dumb bomb, you say?

I was using microsoft speech recognition back in windows xp days. Honestly, the time you spend correcting dumb mistakes in the text you read aloud consumes more time than typing. Especially when you are a fast typist. I feel like this is more of an accessibility feature being marketed as an enhancement than an…

Getting some F14s for my CTS-V custom made for my retarded lug pattern. I can't wait until they are delivered!

This guy is unimpressed.

Fight for your freedom.

More specifically, throttle by wire, computer, another computer, possibly 3 more computers, etc. Probably not the cause of the problem, I'm willing to bet she bumped some setting on the steering wheel.

Throttle by wire. Duh.

This is why everyone needs to drive a low car. Speed bumps wouldn't exist and everyone would complain so much about our crappy roads that we would invest more in infrastructure. Plus, if some road hazard is out there, you'd better believe that the guy in the slammed miata is going to slow down to about .3 mph to get…

It seems like a better lock design would involve thick steel tubing filled and pressurized with a fluorescent dye like the dye bombs banks throw in with cash when they're being robbed. My thought is that the angle grinder would come in contact with the dye and shower everything in the vicinity with a misting of…

My town is 100% squids. The only person I enjoy riding with is my brother, who has been riding almost as long as I have. I bought my FZ6 in 2005, brand new, at the tender age of 19. I've got 40k miles of commuting on that bike. I've been down twice: once on February-cold tires, once when my brake lever broke and I…

Makes sense, we probably lose more servicemen to motorcycle accidents than to war nowadays.