Cool, I can see the ‘Amtrak Cascades’ bus taking people from Everett to Bellingham again - every single day! Stuck in the horrible traffic from Everett to Marysville. My tax dollars at work (WA state has always subsidized this run). Having rode this train 20 years or so from Vancouver down to Everett, I sure hope…

Im pretty sure there would be skid marks if that suddenly appeared in front of me!

The A380 was dead before arrival. Boeing got it right with the 787, Airbus got it wrong with the ‘380. From the massive, Boeing level design fuck-ups on the electrical system hook-ups between Sect 10 & 11 and some of the other stuff. Like putting way to much wing on it, planning for the -1000, but never building it.

What is this, a car for ants!?!?

It was and 800NG. They have the flip up overwing exits, not the plug type. The passengers in tests were too stupid to know what to do with the plug doors. You were just supposed to pass them back in side and carefully set them down do they wouldnt get damaged. Yeah, right!

And as always:

Never driven a Vanagon before have you. That’s where the brake fluid reservoir is (its for the clutch also in the Vanagon). In fact that looks like the top of a standard T1 brake reservoir from that era. Probably used what was on hand. Those seats may be from a early 1980's T2 - 9 passenger model, although Im not sure…

MM wasn’t all the same size - top, middle and bottom. She was a mix of sizes so her clothes had to be custom made. This observation from a woman who actually tried on some of her dresses.

Yes: why is it so boring looking? For a company that has had some beautiful, functional designs like the XJ and even the original Grand Cherokee. I couldn’t find one of these in a mall parking lot if I tried.

My wife and I always buy vehicles as ‘twofirs’, two at a time. We stopped by the local Ford dealer at 6PM or so and looky-looed until one of the salesman wandered out and talked to us. We had identified a couple we wanted to look at but they wanted to run a credit check on us first. We sat in the office next to the…

I had a Canyon cab and a half like this. Except for all the crappy GM plastics it was a great truck (the 4cyl and the manual were a hoot). Have you done the Blazer blower wiring update, or had it done under warrantee? The A/C is really effective in Kansas in the middle of August when the blower will only run on 4! I…

2023 - President Biden and Macron announce ‘Cash for Clunker Airplanes’, The US and France will pay Russia for every derelict plane they stole and this will take all those planes out of service and allow a windfall for Boeing and Airbus, GE and RR!

Is that near Suquamish, Puyallup, Issaquah or Skookumchuck?

Trust me, its still there.

Kansas: pass you on the left and then immediately pull in front of you and slow down. We call it “Gotta be in front”. When you point it out to Native Kansanians they look bemused and say “Oh yeah, we do that don’t we”.

LES THUNDERBIRDS SONT PARTIS!

Guy I worked with loved these things. I think he owned like 25 of them. He did his own maint. and could changed things like clutches and wheel bearings on the side of the road in 15 minutes.

Most of the FDR’s and CVR’s are located above the ceiling as far back or further than the aft pressure dome. Usually the last part of the plane that arrives at the accident.

That just proves that Penny is actually your girlfriend when you go on the research boat in the North Sea. Or Comic Con.

a manual hatchback