You can repair much more substantial damage on the composite wing or fuselage of a glider - you can even repair a carbon fiber spar if it’s damaged instead of replacing a whole wing. I’ve seen bigger repairs done on wings for far less than the cost it would require to total this Lotus and those were done at FAA and…

I figure the U.S. were really the winners in the SST race. They dropped out and cut their losses. The Concorde, the Tupolev and the Boeing projects were fascinating and cool aeroplanes but the SST was (unfortunately for us aviation nuts) an economic non-starter. You can tell what Boeing really thought about the…

“probably the greatest automotive picture ever taken” Absolutely goddamn right! The 917 in it’s original form is one of the most beautiful, seductive and menacing cars ever made and to see all those lined up like that... bewitching! I would love to find a good scale model of a 917 in that body and colour scheme since…

The post said only that Bob wasn’t there in person and Patricia’s pictures were everywhere. Some details about what has changed about the actual training (aside from not getting personal training from Bob) or facilities would have been useful. What specific changes has Patricia made that have resulted in the school…

“I am actually not a huge fan of traveling in a vehicle that I am not operating.” When it comes to aircraft neither am I unless I know the pilot and trust them. Especially since becoming a pilot myself!

Ours is a first gen - 2013 - with AWD. I use it regularly to tow sailplane trailers which are over 30 feet long and weigh 1,500 to 2,500 pounds. Hauling a yard of gravel, dirt or bark mulch is no problem. I’ve helped out a friend a couple of times transporting a pair of dirtbikes in the bed too. The great thing is…

I lent my single speed cruiser bike to a friend to take to Burning Man on one of her trips there. I was horrified to see what the playa dust is like - fool that I am (and never having been there) I was thinking desert=sand=no big deal to clean up. It was bad enough on the rock-simple bottom-of-the-line Trek cruiser so…

So... the pictograms on the release tell the driver to, uhh... give a passerby the bird, ejaculate out the door and then settle down with some bible reading? Or do you read it bottom to top instead? No, no... that way would be even creepier.

As does my car which has a mechanical door mechanism, frameless windows and the down/open/close/up window feature.

But one that travels at Mach 0.8 at FL35 is fine right? (OK, OK, you really DON’T need to understand anything about aircraft to get packed like cattle in an airliner because you’re not the one operating it)

My 2018 model year car has door windows that drop a little before the door is opened and raise a little after they are closed - the actual door latch mechanism itself is mechanical though. A fully electronic system isn’t a necessity for that feature to work.

“I open the door with one hand on every car I’ve ever owned.” Ah, I can see you’ve never had the pleasure of owning a 1970 Cougar with sagging doors!

“We are a nation of laws.” Thanks! I needed a laugh.

I owned two in a row - 2004 2WD Y-Package (Canadian market trim) blue with a manual and a 2010 AWD black automatic bought in summer of 2011. The later models have the front belts attached to the seats so you don’t need to unbuckle to let someone out of the back. They were compact, towed a sailplane trailer very well,…

You can continue trying to make them understand this... or you can try to teach a seagull differential calculus. Either option has about the same chance of success.

You have to give the guy credit: his automotive fashion sense and his clothing fashion sense are a perfect match. Also MY EYES!!!! THE GOGGLES, THEY DO NOTHING!!!!!

Yeah, that all seems to have been ditched. Probably long ago when the original carburetor and airbox was replaced by the Weber. Not sure why the article calls it “original” unless that term now means “what was on the car when I bought it.” The CRX also has disc front brakes and only the rears are drums while the…

Take a look at the way they created that promo picture - the image of the driver is obviously not-to-scale with the truck itself! I haven’t seen that since post-WWII British microcar advertising.

Potentially life saving treatment for a potentially life threatening illness. The bar for measuring success in treatment for depression is remarkably low and the treatments (while they can work and I’m happy for the people they do work for) really aren’t all that effective. I’m not suggesting anyone avoid seeking…

Damn, and I thought the Bridgestone 007S’s on my car seemed to have the wear properties of soft licorice since they don’t have far to go before the wear bars are flush with 28,000KM on them! Sticky tires though. Planning on replacing them with Pilot Sport 4S - and actually getting off my rear and buying winter tires…