With delicious, delicious smoothies...

With delicious, delicious smoothies...

If Jeremy Clarkson is sacked from Top Gear - I will stop watching, plain and simple. It will pain me that an era will have come to an end, and under such pretenses. I understand words can be impactful, but truthfully - Jeremy Clarkson is a mirror of all of us, warts and all. Love him or hate him, he comments…

Agreed - I've used Glass before and never found it particularly practical. Here, it really does seem to come into it's own.

1) Recorded in New Zealand
2) Yup
3) Yup

Alpha 160A

I second the part about FAA taking any deviations very seriously - that being said, this was recorded in New Zealand, a bit beyond even the FAA's jurisdiction.

No BRS chute on this plane. It's an Alpha 160A.

The aircraft they are in is an Alpha 160A. It is rated for +6/-3G which is more than sufficient for the maneuvers they were performing - in addition, the aircraft is rated as being aerobatic capable (within those G limits).

In addition - the handle you saw is the canopy release lever, not a BRS chute (which is not an…

Should they have worn parachutes? Probably - but, the video was recorded in New Zealand, where there is no regulation requiring the wearing of parachutes.

You are correct in your evaluation of the FARs (Federal Aviation Regulations) however the video description on YouTube indicates that the aerobatics were performed in New Zealand where there are no such regulations to wear a parachute.

That I believe is actually the canopy release handle. A whole frame parachute has a standardized (but still red) handle - it is aluminum and T-Shaped rather than the lever you see there. In addition - it requires a significant amount of force to deploy (80 lbs maybe?) so it wouldn't be mounted on the canopy due to the…

That clinches it - will not be buying the Xbox One...