Those pre-WWI racers are amazing to see. Just brute force engineering. Getting your head around how fast they went and the quality of the roads at the time is a challenge.

I would agree. One the best motorsports events I have attended hands down. So much asesome on display.

They made a movie about classic hydroplane racing? Hmmm...

Absolutely. The point I was trying to make was that commercial aircraft also employ new technologies and some of them are not as ready for prime time as they could be. They may ,wet acceptable levels of safety, but they might miss the design goals.

Also looks like he might have hit his head on the ground a few times while running form the cops.

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.