This did it for me. I think everyone, good and bad, died...twice.

757 is my favorite. It is the sports car of airliners. Overpowered and sleek, but that is my opinion. Interiors can be changed and have for a number of carriers. That said, single isle is single isle and there isn't anything you can do about that.

That was terribly violent. Especially how the nose dug in. Briscoe seemed stunned, and he had every right to be, as he is supposed to pop his visor to show the safety team he is ok. He didn't seem to be able to figure it how to do that.

I’m pulling this from memory, so grain of salt on some of the details, but I remember that one of the tricks it's the 727 was partially popping the Kruger flaps at cruise to get a few more hundredths of Mach number during cruise. I wonder if they are looking at the efficiency increases from changing the geometry of…

It wasn’t uncommon for crew members to be allowed to keep small items from their flights.

Several studies were conducted around using the Shuttle’s tank as a part of a station. I’m disappointed that it wasn’t tried. Since the tank was so large and would be clean on the inside it seems like it would have been ideal. Getting that kind of mass and volume to altitude is hard and it is a shame that they were…

It’s all relative I suppose. The 767 was designed 30 years ago and feature a vacuum system and the 747 had it before that. I guess the point I was trying to make is that there are still active airliners that utilize the liquid system.

757s and MD products still have them.

1) If you could say something to all the beginning drivers out there what would it be?

Devil’s Tower, Wyoming is one of my favorites and relevant to the readers of this site.

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.

It is just a fun, somewhat subversive, Christmas story. I loved it when I was younger, I was a Bloom County fan to begin with, and I read it with my kids.

It would certainly take a change in social norms. We are drifting to a stage where we are allowing people to choose how their life ends. This could be seen as an extension of that. A drastic extension admittedly. But how amazing would it be to say when asked what you are going to do when your retire that you are going…

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.

I carry an s4 with lollipop as my personal phone and an i6 as my work phone. As much as I like the idea of Android I always grab the i6 first. Better /quicker camera app, better apps all together and it very, very rarely crashes.

Ethics are what you make them. If it was clear, up front, that there were consumables for 5 years, but you got to explore the rings of Saturn during that time then why not? Given the option of withering away or going on a grand voyage I know which one I would pick.

If NASA came up to me and said, “ We have an unused Mercury capsule that we found out back. You want to go for a ride?” I would be all over it. What pains me is how risk adverser we have become around space flight. Ask astronauts, plenty are on record, knowing that it is dangerous stuff and if anything happened to…

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