Model T - yes, they’re delightfully confusing to learn to drive. There’s monthly classes in 2023 at WAAAM in Hood River near Portland OR: https://www.waaamuseum.org/education/model-t-driving-school

Spouse and I have mostly driven pickups and they make up 2/3 of our fleet now. I am firmly on the side of the haters.

Spouse Acceptance Factor is a thing.

^^^QOTD^^^

At least with an SUV, your stuff is protected.

Yeah that’s the problem, we’re mainly getting efficiency gains by going to wider engines. The MAX’s is too big for the plane.

Booo.

Wonder if these can be retrofitted with smaller-diameter engines to fix the thrust line?

Came here to say this.  And that’s a lovely picture.

Where’s the stats that specifically relate higher beltlines and thicker pillars to safety? As I understand it, it’s just extra sheetmetal.

Schiphol’s a great airport but I can’t imagine trying to sleep in it. Guess it was too late to pop out and find a hostel?

Perceived safety as I understand it.  Sell what the customer wants and damn the consequences.

With the way the front slopes down, there should be great visibility at the corners.  Big ol’ roman nose snoot on that thing.

The movie is middling, “Lovecraft Country” (book or show) is perhaps a more fun way to explore the horrors of the time.

OK, I get it, you’re auditioning for The Onion. But even as trolling you didn’t make this fun enough.

And sometimes you just draw the winning lottery ticket.

There are incompetent lies, and then there are the lies that say, “we can do this to you too, and nobody will punish us for it.”

It sounds like max flight time is about an hour, so I would guess recharge time is at least an hour, which conveniently is roughly enough time to turn the plane around.

Anywhere the sun shines (or a microreactor runs.)

James Bond changes appearance and is rejuvenated at random, has a superhuman assortment of skills and is apparently indestructible.