Merlin's and Griffons also made it into hydroplanes.

Ah. The render is a bit rough and the fuselage looked like it had the 747 flight deck.

Converting the 747 from low wing to high seems like a bad idea to me. Basically you might be able to salvage the forward fuselage, you would need an all new center section and moving the horizontal stabilizer up to the vertical stabilizer would require redesign of the stabs, rear fuselage and bulkheads. Plus, you need…

It is getting pretty hard to find JT8D as used on the DC-9, the baby 8s as they are called, as well. The life limited parts internal to them have been used up and no one is interested in making more.

You got me on the first one. Is the second also vertical?

Similar problem yields a similar solution. The main difference here is they are air launching SpaceShip2. Even there, they toyed with the idea for the shuttle...

The C-5 idea isn't all that crazy and is flying in a smaller form...

Not a TSO, but you are probably right about the cost.

Wait, wait! You are saying muscle cars don't have to be portrayed as rolling death machines that would suck your soul out of your body and spit it out just as soon as look at you? They aren't intended to show how tough you are by just by a single press of the gas peddle? Are you saying the can be fun?...I'm ok with…

You rang?

In aviation it isn't duct tape. It is Speed Tape. You can do amazing things with Speed Tape. It is aluminum foil tape.

I attended an industry meeting where an engineer from Boeing presented on their efforts with Lotus and 3D printing. Looks like a good program for both companies. Lotus gets access to some high end aerospace know how and Boeing is exposed to the fast paced world of an F-1 team. The large OEMs sometimes struggle with…

P2 may not be the most glamorous level, but it fits better with a global engine program that can be utilized in other forms of racing.

The Spirit of Delta 767 and the newly added 757 and DC-9 were towed over to the Delta museum. Thing to keep in mind that the museum occupies Hamgar 1 and this was part of the original airport ramp before the big terminal was built. There are large gates on the south east corner of the DL general offices and the cargo…

Delta has just opened a new and fairly snazzy museum in ATL. I wonder if they would take it.

Please send this to those nice people. I believe they need it to wash their shorts.

The correct answer is to race and brew.

nice write up. We road tripped our 2003 Evo, with kids, a few weeks ago. It had been a while since I had done that. It was great. All you said. The handling, the noise, the brakes, the giant wing. Just good fun.

Not sexy, but the technologies that go into automotive metal shaping need to get some props. Without the ability to effectively, quickly and affordably fabricate metal parts we wouldn't have the great shapes and safety we expect.

The world needs more off-road Porsche. It really does. It works for some reason.