There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of ADs out there with no terminating action. There are components that the industry has been demanding be fixed for decades. There are articles flying on commercial aircraft every day that don’t meet their original design requirement for reliability. The air carriers compensate by…

The thingy that goes from the hub to the outer rim, wouldn’t that be a spoke regardless of it being forged, carbon or traditional wire?

A and B aren’t always eager to push suppliers too hard. Fixing issues on an in-service aircraft means less resources to work on developing the next gen.

We have a Cooper S and an Evo VIII as our family cars. We get by just fine. The kids have made it past the stage where people think they need a bunch of gear to get by. We’ve done some road trips with the cars and it is fine.

Neither A nor B are immune to that kind of thinking. That said, they are usually pretty good about getting fixes in the pipeline as they come up. Now the sub-tier vendors are a whole different story. Unless they get slapped around hard they are happy to let under performing items roll.

You think civil aviation doesn’t work that way? Hmmm

Easy breezy on that one. Several iconic cars.

The track is big. Take advantage of the shuttle busses where you can.

I was looking for an excuse...

Depends where it is I suppose. There are fewer camp grounds now. We did see some guys just drop sleeping bags in the Porsche Curves and sleep under the stars. They were surrounded by beer cans, you know, to break the wind.

You’re there? Real fans sleep in the grandstands or in cars. Remember that.

Le Mans is an huge event and this year’s race looks like it will be epic. There are tight battles in all the classes. There is a ton of innovation out there to see and some top drivers. It should be great. Just look at that grid!

Yeah, it is like seeing a Hellcat do 190 MPH. Barely anyone ever gets to do it, but it is fun to know you can.

It’s the simple fact that airplanes are bought by people and wow factor still plays a part. marketing is marketing. Sure the bean counters will get in there and figure out long term CASM and RASM, maintenance concerns, cost of spares and all that, but people still like seeing zoomy jets be zoomy jets.

He missed some vital steps in his recovery. That would be stopping the bike, slowly getting off and finding somewhere private to change his shorts.

One of the things that saved my butt in Tokyo was Google Maps’ ability to tell me which platform to take and the color of the train line. Such a helpful addition. Will Apple Maps do that? Letting you know the layout of the station is cool, but knowing exactly where to go in the station is even better.

It will be interesting to see how it looks on TV, particularly with panning shots.

“This is marshal post 23. I would like to report car 97, the Aston Martin that is making everyone puke, for exceeding track limits.”

We have a 5 and 8 year old and we all eat together every night assuming I’m not traveling for work or there isn’t a special event at school. Things haven’t gotten too crazy with activities yet, so we have dinner together more often than not. We have a strict no phones or electronic devices rule during dinner. Weekend…

Yeah, I’m not sure either. It is a serious subject. It has been interesting to see responses from people from Japan, Korea and China as well as western countries and I have tried to keep things calm and open. That said, this is the internet, and part of the Gawker empire, so things sometimes go the way they go.