These aren’t minor improvements, they’re major. The electromagnetic launch and recovery systems are two of the big players in reducing the ship’s complement by about 1000 sailors relative to the Nimitz, and will pay for themselves in reduced salary alone.

‘You paid us (Airbus) for an airplane that does not meet your specifications or your schedule, we are years behind, but here is the a bill for 2-3 times project original cost for a solution that this time, we think might work. If it doens’t then we’ll send you another bill for another 100% increase in cost and see if…

Imagine if civil aviation worked like this.

Just a 30 year old picture:

Who are you.

Gran Turismo play should be required game play for any automotive enthusist

No problem. If anyone didn’t know any better, they’d assume it was virtually impossible to approach SoCal by sea through all the OPAREAS designated offshore, for example.

It’s a training exercise. Didn’t want anyone to get hurt.

Probably would have cancelled the whole war and all the planned battles too

I bet he would have punched the enemy captain in the face.

Why didn’t they have Clarkson lead the assualt/fracas?

Obligatory because Jalopnik.

Just imagine how everyone hates Hulk next weekend when he tells them that he did spent 3.5 hours racing flat out with only 3x refueling...

Hey FIA that’s what a hybrid car should sound like not what those god damn abominations you’ve mandated in F1 sound like. Bernie and company should be running open wheel open cockpit versions of those LMP1 cars.

Keep in mind that Porsche’s pace through the night was fantastic. Tandy was routinely increasing the gap by 2-3 seconds per lap to Lotterer and that, my friend, is impressive.