Where do I begin?

The 15 months I was in Sarajevo (spanning two Christmas seasons) in the bad old days bunkering down in what was once a pretty decent international airport but was as the time a target field for Serbian artillery amateurs to practice their craft.

Was going for the camo effect rather than the alien abduction effect ;-)

Once rented a Sanurai in South Africa for a self-guided safari tour. I swear that after 500 km, every single window on the thing had popped out of their moldings at least once. Went through five rolls of green duct tape and two tires.

08-12 Mitsu Eclipse. Yah, it weighs more than a Corvette with half the power, but there is loads of tinker room in the aged Galant chassis to vastly improve steering and handling. The revised heads on the V6 in the 08+ models frees up a a few more HP but a lot of torque and stretches out the dealer service interval…

I didn't know that about the CS fleet rotation, thanks!

Could be that once AB realized that Skymark was going to cycle the airframe at 6x what a mainline carrier would (20-25 a week va 6 a week on the mainline), they panicked and decided that being a real airbus wasn't their line of business. Or their design point.

It might just take a court case as bizzare as this to establish that snark isn't a valid journalistic vehicle.....

Swing weekend. Five couples. One couple had recently had a threesome with a woman who sounded for all the world like my SOs sister.

I'd much rather have one of these:

http://earthroamer.com/xv-lt/

Sorry for being obtuse there. X-plane is pretty capable, it can talk to other xplane instances to enable some pretty sophisticated formation simflying and for ATC practice.

Xplane is hardly an arcade game, it's FAA approved for currency and basic flight training out of the box (with a feature enabler usb key).

Or, check out X-Plane for IOS/iDevices.......

There are several 'wipe my phone' apps in the Play Store. They purport to write random patterns of date to available storage on a phone.

While all of the AAA discounts are available in part from other sources, it's pretty much only AAA that has them all in one place with one membership. They've been around for what, 100 years or so and as such pretty much know what they are doing.

Ah no. It was built to ferry the Buran shuttle around and did so several times.

The Ivchenko/New Progress Ukranian-made engines aren't the most efficient in terms of thrust-weight and fuel burn.

Never, EVER, use the spare-tire jack that comes with a car these days. These are barely suitable for their main purpose and wholly unsuitable for securing a car when someone is working underneath.

It was the Pantera that turned me into a motorhead at age 13. A neighbor down the street had three (!!!) of them and every once in a while, he'd take the kids out for a 15 minute drive each down a really nice curvy paved farm country road.

The world cares not about your participation ribbons or 'self-esteem'. Get used to being ostracized, ignored, pressured, and competed with.

and InSSIDer is pretty durn useful as well.