The plane has a built in parachute, so even if the wings and engine fall off at the same time, if you’re above 300 ft, it should theoretically be a survivable accident. Below a few hundred feet, if anything goes wrong, you’re pretty much screwed. But that is true for nearly all aircraft unless they’re equipped with…

The “sport” part have nothing to do with performance and everything to do with the license required: a “Sport Pilot” license that requires only 20 hours of training and no medical. Now for some this might not be an issue if they’re responsible and have a lot of sim time. Also the planes you can fly under this rule…

My father is a professional pilot... He had a friend called Louis Lehman who had been flying his entire life... He also the one who got me into flying gliders back when I was 15... One day he brought his girlfriend to look at the new house he was building in his newly acquired canard. You guessed it, he crashed doing…

Also hard to land an amphibious aircraft without getting closer than 300 feet to surface of water.

Exactly. It’s the same reason some planes have worse safety records than others (SR22, at least early on). It was marketed as a new age plane with lots of safety. That made people complacent and a bunch of them crashed and people died. If you market a plane as as a toy that will keep you safe from yourself bad things…

thrash around on a jet ski and pretty much the worst that can happen is you end up taking a swim

Mmm 455sd. Torquey goodness..

Well, yeah... but... the late 70s and early 80s happened. No one wants this:

The biggest problem with the 280z and zx are that the gorgeous 240z (and still nice 260z) came before them. Fundamentally they were of their time but looking at them now, there’s no person with the gift of sight who would choose them over this:

I had one of those. Total blast to drive. Major issue with body rust. My friend the body shop owner (because of course you get to be friends when you’re in the shop getting the rust fixed on a regular basis) said to me: “robert... put that car in a dark room and you can hear it rust...”

With the shitstorm that Hollywood is right now, does Range Rover really expect to sell any Hollywood editions?

Jesus, Torchy. Your imaginary foreign vehicles are slipping through some kind of wormhole.

Or we just wait the 50 years it’s going to take to come up with an alternative battery chemistry that will use more readily available resources.

That’s nothing. Google Damascus Titan. Thank God we don’t use liquid fuels for our ICBMs anymore.

I guess granddad getting out and removing black out blends from headlights in the war doesn’t count?

Happy Halloween!

Porsche under a car cover - Joey did it.

cute doggy

“It tastes like it likes chicken.” FIFY