I like the engine and transmission swap. it's definitely be way less maintenance and trouble prone than the original mill. That being said... 17K is too much for this car. CP

The Valkyrie was always intended to be powered by "chemicals" They were working on a Borane based fuel for the XB-70 and the YJ-93 engine was supposed to be able to run on borane or "zip" fuels, but the chemical technology was expensive, there was no steady supply of fuel, no infrastructure either. The compromise was…

That was one theory, about the vortices created by the XB-70 sucking in the Starfighter into the Valkyrie causing the crash. Another theory is that Joe Walker, the pilot of the F-104, gradually closed in on the Valkyrie without realizing the danger until it was too late.

The publicity photos were being done by General Electric. All the planes in the formation had GE engines. F-5, F-4, F-104, T-38 and of course GE built the J-93's in the Valkyrie.

My nightmare experience happened last year. I had a 2011 Mazda 3 sedan. The car had 24,000 miles, I owed $12,500 to the bank, and at the time the KBB appraisal said it was worth about that much as a trade in. At first I thought to trade it in for something roomier, but the dealerships I visited wouldn’t come anywhere…

Beaten with the whole damn ugly tree.

Paint that puppy gray over black with a red stripe, put a pushbar on the front and it'll be a kickass A-Team van.

#34 War is good for business

I kind of remember the MiG 1.44 and Sukhoi's SU-47 forward swept wing fighter design were being talked about as being Russia's 21st century fighter pair back in the late 90's/early 2000's. If memory serves, MiG was being starved of funds to the point they couldn't get a decent pair of actuators for the canards. -part…

Damn! I was hoping I could use something like this for my home in Southwest Arizona. It's 108 right now and the low is expected to be 88 tonight.

last ditch wonder weapons created in desperation mainly.

I seem to recall reading the Italians and the British had really mastered the art of building really fast floatplanes for the air races in the late 20's and early 30's.

You’d think the DOD bigwigs would remember the lessons of the F-111A/F-111B fiasco back in the 60's. The F-35 seems to be heading in the exact same direction, and all the Air Force brass want to do is retire a tough and proven CAS platform so they can afford more of these.

Interesting how both Lincoln and Bentley both have a Continental. Hmmmm.....

Doug, and the 1996 or prior Range Rover, Toyota Land Cruiser or Jeep grand Cherokee don't count in the luxury SUV segment because?....

That’s a weird Frankenstein through and through. 12,500? Crack Pipe all the way!

Salvage Title.... 3 or 4 thousand? Yeah that’s do-able. But 8 grand?? nah.