Somebody correct me if I am wrong, but Super Hornet pilots have never had direct control of the control surfaces - it’s always been fly by wire, with the computer “interpreting” control inputs.

I learned to drive in a 122S like this... It had twin SU fluid-filled carbs instead of whatever single carb setup this one has though.

Not Maintenance. Maintenace. You can’t put a price tag on maintenace.

Hertz is seriously the worst car rental company I have ever dealt with. I am sure that their employees are trained to cram charges and upgrades whenever possible.

A folding chair? That’s some serious WWE shit there, like in 1998 when the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16ft through an announcer’s table.

I’m with you, Jim.

This is why Gen 1 ABM systems used their own nuclear warheads...

Scientists were testing the interceptor to determine if a resigned would solve the thruster issue. It didn’t. One of the four interceptors shut down, sending the interceptor off course.

And it’s definitely not going to make 13.5 PSI at that RPM, period.

This is a pretty terrible attitude. Would you rather have those motorcyclists in cars instead, adding even more traffic? That’s just stupid.

I would think optical would be easier to implement and more reliable than vibration. CD versus vinyl...

Late to the party so maybe somebody has already mentioned this, but Cajon Speedway, adjacent to Gillespie Field in El Cajon, CA. Billed as “the fastest 3/8 mile paved oval in the west.”

One, I thought the polar ice caps had been solved by global warming.

Washington and Beijing spared (sic) briefly...

Better yet, the story got corrected, but TJS didn’t even copy and paste you right...

Very interesting article, marred by multiple typos. Proof your own work, TJS - nobody else around there will do it.

Ok. Wasn’t the guy I knew then. Doesn’t make it any less awful though.

On the metro train in LA one day. In the lead car on the way home for the day. Train is doing about 50-55mph at this point when someone decided to end it all and step in front of the train.

No script for </scorpion> has ever been thrown out.

Damn, I was kind of hoping that the carrier kept the well deck “wet” for the voyage instead of being a mobile drydock, but I guess that’s not really such a good idea.