"And under the hood, it's got a four-cylinder Cummins diesel which can pump out 250 horsepower and 600 (!!!!!!!!!!) pound-feet of torque."

Please do not crack the RFCTSPs too hard with your fat gloved fingers; it breaks the screen cover and after the tenth broken one in a row we run out of spares and then your planes are down for a box that literally repeats a radio frequency for the RIO and weighs maybe six ounces.

If only a depressingly large number of drag strips across the country are shutting down - or getting shut down - due to environmental and noise complaints. Those that remain open are getting ridiculously expensive, and let's be honest, if you don't have a drag strip within an hour of you, you aren't going to go to one…

10. Weathertech/Husky floormats (they're really great!)

" It is a sense of giddiness, as if you have gotten away with something that no one else on that ship could have possibly snuck away with: Freedom."

Full disclosure: I own both a '14 ST and a '13 Titanium (Focus). And I love them.

This was true back in the day of oil-fired ships, which did produce large amounts of soot, but all surface combatants now run on gas turbines, which don't produce soot. All of the superstructures on modern ships are painted gray. Source: 12 years and counting in the Navy

...no balls, bet you won't?

Yeah, it's a pretty Wisconsin thing. I took this at the Eau Claire ski jump competition a few years ago. One of the first pics I took with my then-new 50mm f1.8.

That is... so unbelievably wrong it's weird. I can't tell if you're joking. I'm hoping you are. A ~200lb person moving 20 feet forward on a 250 ft long, 60,000lb plane affects the CG about not even a goddamn bit. You literally cannot trim the plane out that little. And even if it did affect the trim, it doesn't…

Christ almighty, this is why defense acquisition is so fucked up. It's taken 15 goddamn years to stick some extra radios, a few extra fuel tanks, and a boom/drogue system into a proven, established airframe. They didn't make any structural modifications to the airframe, and they aren't pushing the boundaries of a…

Eh, yeah, a bird can put a hole in a leading edge, maybe take out a few fuel lines, hydraulic lines, etc, maybe kill the engine through the loss of those lines, and you might lose flight control surfaces even (unlikely due to the placement of those lines aft) but the structural integrity of the wing itself? There is…

Geese will take out an engine just dandy, but there is literally no way a goose, or even multiple geese, is going to break a wing. They are exceptionally strong. And frankly, that turbulence would maybe be moderate as far as the airframe is concerned. It would definitely handle a lot more than that. If people were…

I got pulled over once in Patuxent River, MD while driving an olive-green, camo'd up M1156 (up-armored HMMWV), for - most improbably - speeding. The cop asked for my license, registration and proof of insurance. The HMMWV did not have license plates, and is most certainly not insured. I was in uniform, and so handed…

I dare you to do the same in one of my E-2C Hawkeyes... most cramped plane ever

Looks like Takata already took those airbags.

Basically it was dying and he had to say to his children, "I'm sorry, Timmy, but the Sunfire has had a long life, and now it's going to live in a big sunny ranch... mmm, ranch..." And the rest is history.

My God, it's like the Swedish flag vomited all over the inside of that car.

Zomg FLAT CRANK!!!!!!

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