The G-Wagon is likely the worst I’ve seen (I routinely valet all sorts of “fancy” cars). I was an an AMG G Class the other day that had nothing but a little can shaped net hanging in the passenger foot well. It was absurd.

You could try, you know...working...

The temperature was “nearing” 100 degrees. Oh lawdy, how we will ever survive! It’s weird, I’ve never seen any of the police departments in the Phoenix valley pop the hoods, and we routinely see days well beyond “nearly 100 degrees”. What a joke.

Fair enough, my initial reaction was to the idea that helicopters stall the way airplanes do (you mentioned “Stall Recovery” which is a term often used in fixed wing aviation and not used the same way in rotary wing aviation). This may not have been your intent, and I apologies if I miss understood your post.…

None of the attributes you just listed apply to a 2000 Lexus RX300 except perhaps the “practical” one. Apparently any sort of boring beige crap-box will do as long as it has a place to put a bag full of crap.

Helicopters don’t really “stall” and the only “stall recovery” you’d have to execute would be for retreating blade stall which occurs above the Vne for the aircraft.

Nope. You’re in on it. A paid government lackey. Either that or the chemtrails have brain washed you.

This country deserves a dose of disrespect every now and then. The firm yet absurd belief that “WE ARE THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH!!!!” is going to be our ultimate downfall.

So, you’ve basically just stolen the opening paragraph to Clarkson’s article?

The place where I work has a deal with the local Mclaren dealer so there is always a new Mclaren parked in the lobby. They change it out for a different color/model combination periodically. I’m a Mclaren lover and I still can’t tell which one we’ve got in the lobby until I walk up and read the numbers off of the…

The drawing of the Class 6 is...ahem...lacking a little bit. I can’t picture what the actual thing looks like.

So he’s not an “Air Travel Blogger” who opines about the blandness of airplane peanuts? I’m relieved. An “Airline Industry” blog makes a hell of a lot more sense.

“Air Travel Blogger” is a thing? Who reads such a thing?

The FARs allow a helicopter below the altitudes prescribed (as you listed them) so long as the operation is conducted “without undue hazard to persons or property on the surface”. It will be up to the FAA to determine whether or not there was “undue hazard”.

I don’t think I’ve ever driven a left hand drive car that had the turn signal controls on the right side of the column. How would you confuse the Merc transmission stalk for the turn signals? I wonder if you’ve spent any time driving a Mercedes? It’s intuitive, clean and easy. The only thing I ever had trouble with…

Why can’t you push those buttons by feel? They don’t move around...