“You’re firing us for this?”

PM me your address. I want to use all your old stuff without permission since nobody cares.

Ah, the ad hominem attack. Last resort of the debater who has lost the argument on facts. Way to take the High Road.

Hey Bill, let’s go burn this guy’s gas instead of our own by taking his car outside of the normal test loop. Let’s violate his trust by doing something we didn’t need to do to diagnose and fix his car. Let’s risk getting bad press for our employer by doing something that shows we don’t respect our customers’ property.

Ford keeps doubling down on things nobody is asking for. Technically complicated, physically huge, small displacement, highly stressed engines? Check! Materials vulnerable to fatigue limits used in novel, high-stress areas? Check!

If memory serves, it dates back to when shaped charge projectiles were the go-to anti armor round - a spinning projectile apparently diminishes the Munroe Effect.

Actually, the filtering effectiveness goes UP as the filter gets dirtier. You clean it because flow is starting to get restricted, not because it stops trapping dirt. I read the link - interesting stuff. I’ll pass it along to the guys at K&N and see what they have to say.

...and there is the second myth. I wish everybody could spend a day at K&N and see how they test their filter media. Granted, I have skin in this game because they help fund my paycheck, but I have seen their operation first hand and talked to their engineering staff. Their filters don’t give anything up in terms of…

Yes ;)

Well, I can’t vouch for EVERY cold air intake on the market, but I know we’ve had dozens of K&N ones on our dyno here at work (we make the installation videos for them) and every single one has made the power they claim it should make. Dudes know what they are doing over there...

You can feel the smirking in the announcer and the crowd...

No, it’s not good enough to simply ignore them, because even when you say to the Hertz (and yes, I am calling you assholes out by name) employee, “I am covered through my personal car insurance AND through the credit card I used to pay for this rental, so I decline your insurance coverage,” it will still appear on the…

If memory serves, automatic belts were merely a stopgap until reliable, affordable airbag systems were available, not intended for long-term incorporation into production cars.

If the damage to your car is minor and the accident is straightforward, you can move the vehicle to the shoulder, as well. But if there are any injuries involved or you have any questions about the safety of driving the car, leave it where it is-even if it’s blocking traffic.

Reasonable men of good will need not agree on everything.

Flight operations in two years? With all the issues with the catapult and arresting gear, those are going to be strictly VTOL and rotary wing... I feel really bad for the future plank-holders on that snakebit ship.

After thinking about what you said, I’m double-unimpressed. Light cart+slow launch = weak sauce. That, plus the terrible MTBF figures, plus the fact that they’re testing this technology which is clearly a long way from being deployment-ready on a carrier that’s supposed to commission soon makes me pretty sure the Ford…

I don’t know... my speed sense is calibrated by ten years of shooting and writing about drag racing. I know how hard things like, say, an Outlaw 10.5 or 275 Drag Radial car accelerate, and this catapult seems to be about that quick.

Maybe it’s just because the carts are so small, compared to carrier aircraft, but these cat shots look really unimpressive and slow compared to what I’m accustomed to. It might have something to do with the fact that the jets always have burner plugged in and are therefore helping to accelerate themselves, but still...

Am I just missing it? Why do these stories usually leave out the make and model of car?