Even sub-sonic, the Concorde was loud. One time the otherwise beautiful bird took off from JFK just as I landed in a 747 a few runways away, and we all heard it loud and clear over the Jumbo’s engines’ roars.

This goes way back, surely further than the East German AWO 425 from 1950 (developed from the BMW R25). ‘4' indicated that it was a four stroke engine, the ‘25' its 250 cc capacity.

All depends what year we’re talking about. Batman’s rides also changed as the years went by.

Worst part of the things wasn’t that they were left everywhere on Copenhagen sidewalks when out of power, but that they were worn out and had to be scrapped typically after a few hundred miles of use.

One way of keeping German POWs from escaping, was to place them in the middle of nowhere, like a small Midwestern town, with enough money to buy their own food, and having to report to the local authorities at short intervals. Given that the POWs in question were most likely vetted and found ‘safe’ enough for this…

While the Concorde may be the one of the most beautiful airplanes ever built, jet engines are a bit boring, compared in particular to air cooled piston engines. Wal into any museum that has both, and see the difference between what any radial and its cooling fins look like, compares to the plumber’s nightmare of a jet…

Both the Nazis and the British made a point of rescuing - or capturing - downed pilots bobbing around dinghies, after ending up in the Channel or the North Sea. Mainly they used boats for this, but seaplanes too.

Well, the bastard IS self-delusional and petty, but it’s not illogical do what he does, if he thinks it’ll make workers at his other plants realize that they can form a union. Hope that’ll happen as soon as possible

There must be software out there, that can detect if a car is being driven in a manner, that suggest the driver is impaired. And then immobilize or slow down the vehicle, while having its horns and light go off.

Technically this is called a ‘powercruiser’, in the class of the Yamaha V-Max. Lovely bike really, and unlike other powercruisers apparently it handles too - Ducati’s engineers just couldn’t help themselves, being Italian and all.

Agent Orange may prove otherwise.

Some actors can handle their status in a proper manner, like being helpful to new actors (Meryl Streep comes to mind) if they’re nervous, whereas others feel their fame entitles them to behave like absolute dicks. Too bad some of the ‘orrible ones perform really well in the whatever movie they are shooting.

Can’t wait for the unions here in Denmark to follow suit....

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Being Danish, and having been married to a Floridianesse for ten years, I must most vehemently disagree with your statement.

In Norway half of the new car sales are EVs, and it’s bloody cold up there, way below freezing. So maybe it’s not such a big issue after all.

Either too expensive or zooning laws restrictions preventing it. Unlike in neighboring Sweden and Norway,temperatures in Denmark rarely go below freezing, and when they do, it’s only for a limited time.

My ‘won-the-lottery’ list has about 35 motorcycles and 5 cars. The two-door open DS tops the cars, with a late model Chevy Corvair Monza a distant second.

Well noted. 20+ replies and only two of them mentioned the jerk.