The CRX and MR2 would like a word with you, not to mention the Miata...

The flaps have fooled people before. I was on a mildly turbulent descent into Dulles once, and when they went to full flaps and you could see that gap, someone started screaming that the wing was breaking up. That was entertaining.

The wing isn’t missing. Its flaps are set to landing configuration, which means they drop backwards and down. They don’t stretch across the whole wing, which is why it looked like part of it was missing.

The problem is that airports capable of handling anything bigger than a crop duster tend to be built where people want to fly to, which tend to be places where people are.

Only if you have no understanding of the statistics. In most cases, the crashes are going to happen anyway. Mechanical failures are mechanical failures. Pilot error is pilot error.

The point that apparently went over your head was that, because the planes are still in active service, parts availability isn’t much of a problem. You don’t have to buy them from any of the above-listed countries or Russia. You buy them from Atlas Internazionale like you do for any other old Soviet fighter you might…

If the plane is not responding to controls, there’s no point in riding it down to the crash. You’ll kill yourself and not change the outcome for anyone on the ground.

Russia sold the MiG 23 all over the world. You don’t have to source parts from them. 9 countries still fly it today.

The pilot of this plane is a highly-trained ex-navy flier. If that plane were controllable, he’d have steered it into the water. If it’s not controllable, then there’s no point in riding it down and killing yourself when you can’t do anything about where it’s going to hit.

Air shows just concentrate planes together; they rarely *cause* the crash, especially post-Rammstein. We don’t know what brought this plane down, but if it was a mechanical failure, it would have crashed just from flying it around not at an air show.

That’s 23 fucking options!!

Holy shit it looks like a tall Geo Metro hatch.

We’ve clearly hit a nerve since you have about 45 replies in here, but even you aren’t disagreeing that IPAs are fucking everywhere. Which, fine, if people like ‘em that’s great but it was (and I say was because it’s getting better) pretty damn annoying when you’d go into a place that had 80% IPAs and the rest was…

That’s true of liquor stores but many bars have like, 18 IPAs, Coors and Miller for the old people, and maybe one or two darks, one of which is almost always Guinness. That’s where the IPA craze was/is so obnoxious. It reminded me of the stupid hot sauce craze in the 90s. “I don’t care if it tastes like shit as long…

One of the biggest problems in our society is that “unless I need to do it for business purposes” is seen as a caveat to most ethical and legal situations. Businesses will have a code of ethics that they rigorously adhere to until it would lose them money. Laws will be broken because it’s more profitable to do so.

Performance is irrelevant when you can't afford the car.

It’s increasingly looking like the problem with the T-6 was an inexperienced pilot without the necessary experience to fly something like a T-6. They have some nasty tendencies that will catch out unprepared pilots. There’s some footage of her landing it earlier, and it was clear she wasn’t proficient.

One of the issues is cost. Very few EVs are below $50,000. Very few families can afford to drop $50,000 on a car, plus hire an electrician to install the associated charging equipment.

Thank you for identifying yourself as one of the 90%

Not every rich person drives a Bentley. Bezos drove an Accord until 10 years ago.