Please, do not insult yhe venerable and much beloved Subaru Brat (or Brumby, if youʻre fown under). It is NOT a Brat, it is a slightly warmed-over Honda Ridgeline

The 1940s - 1950s Air Force I grew up in was far different than today's service, happily for me. F'rinstance. We lived on Clark AFB on Luzon in the Philippines in '53, '54, and my Dad was command pilot in B-29s. Us kids could not only go out on the ramp, Dad on more than one occassion let me sit in the plane during…

I love the creeping around the corner dragging the accordianed roof sheet metal. Lokks like a bad dog try to sneak away with it's tail between it's legs.

BMW has the 'Bangle Butt', Scion now has the Kardashian butt.

Finally, someone has designed a car uglier than the Leaf!

I guess they thought it was a drive-theu restaurant.

Early fifties Dodge Power Wagon. I had a flatbed version of this with PTO drum winch and all. Loveed that truck.

Split-window VW bug, early fifties.

Full-size spare in matching rim/tire.

Back in the early 1980's I lived in Tucson, AZ, and shared a Cessna 150 straight-tail with a friend. We stripped and polished the entire plane, and it was gleaming aluminum except for flat-black anti-glare on the upper cowl, and red nosebowl, wing and tail tips. This was the height of the double-nickle malaise, and we…

Titanium bathtub protecting pilot and avionics, dual ouboard engines with frangible struts and self-sealing just about every fluid system, dual rudders (and it has returned with one side blown clear off), as well as on half a wing on one side. Doesn't sound that vulnerable to me.

Need zebra stripes.

Whereas, in the 2CV, ONE CAN SIMPLY STICKS ONE's left foot out the drivers door, and drag the car to a stop!

How FAs have handled seat changing in your experience does not make what I said BS, which I assume refers to my statements about the regs., since avery other statement you make is pretty much in agreement. Many of us have wide and varying experiences on airliners, which may have been handled in many ways by aircrews,…

First, I am no defender of United, and avoid the line as much as possible. T his was a case of bad decisions all around. The cabin crew had a perfect right, even a burdon of responsability to insist that she remain in her booked seat, at least until the airplane reached cruise altitude and the fasten seatbelt signs…

Ship it out in completed components, as a kit car. Most gearheads that would want one would jump at the chance to have a lego-simple build project , just for the fun of building it ...and bragging rights, of course. Be a little more affordable, and makes an end run around federal highway safety regs. At least in most…

The Hershey bar wings are supported by a tube spar, which is also the fuel tank. The dihedral is in the center carrythru. The inboard and outboard attach ribs are identical, so once you release the spar attaches, the wing slides off the spar and can be inserted in the other direction and the whole thing mounted on the…

The ultimate expression of this engineering design ethis was the Grumman AA1-B 'Yankee'. The wings were symmetrical, and could be mounted on either side, the ailerons, flaps, elevators, and rudder were interchangable, as were both horizontal and vertical rear stabilizers. The landing gear legs and mounts were…

For that matter ALL plastic headlight lens covers. Eventually the yall fog up and discolor, becoming an eternal pain in the ass to have to constantly restore, which is a downhill death spiral. AND they cost a bloody fortune to replace!

Back? Subaru never left.