Commercial aircraft never use GPS for altitude control. There is far too much inaccuracy. Instead they use a device called radalt, from RADAR altimeter to monitor the ground immediately below and precision barometric sensors to compare the local air pressure to that at the runway. The latter can produce problems -…

“there’s probably, again, a few more appropriate ways about getting that message out”

A flame thrower is more versatile. Bullets can be hit or miss, but a flame thrower will always give the user a warm feeling. 

This is the kind of road where you won’t exceed traction limits below 15o mph so you will be safe 99% of the time. Screw anyone trying to enter or leave the road. It is their job to yield to anyone going that fast. 

Even at a low altitude, if the pilot keeps the pressure altitude setting lower than the actual altitude that door is staying put. Normally pressure differential is reduced because a gradual pressure reduction is easier on the passengers

Fees for carry-on bags and automated check-in kiosks.

It occurred to me that Not Just Bikes never has a show with 30-40 mph gusting winds during a downpour showing all those happy pedestrians and cyclists tooling about. 

Only if they don’t take the money and run. 

This is the amount of air/mass I would expect to leave if there was a 0.005 inch to 0.010 inch diameter hole or fracture of similar area. That’s not to say it cannot be an extensive crack that is now only 0.00000010 inches wide and several feet long, but it’s not a feature easily created.

It makes me wonder why the sign is there. The typical sign is “NO STOPPING OR STANDING” to indicate not to stop ... or stand.

Late is relative. Planes depart early from time to time. The key move is that once at the gate stay at the gate, especially if there is a plane at the gate. 

Hertz can swear out a false report for the not-stolen vehicles. There have been several cases of people yanked from cars with guns aimed at them and fingers on triggers, with cops screaming to “stop resisting” as the cops do a knee drop onto their head because Hertz did just that.

Maybe. I think 2 years from now cops will be pitting those cars off the highway with hapless renters getting guns and Tasers and pepper spray until they “stop resisting.”

Yes, yes he did. He keeps swearing to never do another story on Hertz that is a repeat, but Hertz keeps coming up with entirely new twists. 

It’s not theft. Hertz already has their payment information on file and has given them a reservation. Anything else is to prevent those who do not have payment info or a reservation from taking them. Unless the contract that is part of that reservation says different, the renters held up their part and it was Hertz…

They already had contracts in hand which is how they knew which cars to take.

Unfair. AFAIK Spirit Airlines hasn’t held passengers at gun point face down on the airport apron in the roasting sunshine. 

Three. US Space Shuttle, Buran, X-37. As a cargo carrier one needs some internal volume for lengthy structural elements; a need not required for people. 

The carbon-carbon composite is the reason it’s black, not for emissivity. At the temperatures the surfaces reach, the color is nearly immaterial. There might be an advantage to rejecting heat while in orbit that is received from the sunshine, though every direction away from the Sun is a pretty good radiative…

The majority of people want a basic inclusive service. They understand the concept of extras, but they don’t understand that the basics are line-item negotiable.