Soviet Era airliners were built tough to handle un-improved runways, underequipped facilities, and crappy fuel. The IL-62 has a generally stellar saftey record, with the majority of incidents attributable to human error.

Interesting Note: Most of those Soviet era Ilyushins and Tupolevs have stellar safety records. They were built tough, with un-improved runways and defered maintenance factored in. They don’t have much automation, so flight crews certified to fly them have to actually know what the hell they are doing (not that you…

These are always great horrible.

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Thanks for the link, bookmarked.

No, I mean when you could actually LEARN things from watching Discovery. It’s really distressing that theres now a whole generation of soon-to-be/recent adults who have only ever been exposed to Reality TV Discovery...

Man, remember when Discovey had actual educational/informative programming? I’m old.

lets be clear here, any engine can be a 300K mile engine (My Alfa Romeo 164-S with the 3.0 12v V6 had over 400K on it when I sold it... having had impeccable maintenance, regular timing belt changes, new head gaskets, several water pumps, major overhaul of the external oil/coolant piping, new Idle air valve, fuel…

What was the hardest to kill?

I never touched a single thing on the engine of my 3800-powered LeSabre for a bit over 300K miles, Then the trans self-destructed. It ran perfectly.

as the former owner of a 3800-powered LeSabre I approve this comment. (mine had a little over 300K miles on it when the transmission self-destructed from complete lack of service and being driven like a maniac. It still ran perfectly, it just couldn’t move more than 5mph anymore...) The thing that sets Buicks with the…

i need to watch this movie again soon...

There’s something about the Panamera that just fails to come across in pictures. It definitely looks far better in person.

These small, high output turbojets are short lived and finicky. That being said...

Interesting you should mention that, as the Alfa Romeo 164 is the only vehicle without side airbags to ever receive an “acceptable” side impact safety rating from EuroNCAP. The contemporary Volvo 850 only received and acceptable rating WITH side airbags.

Anyone who can play guitar like that in the pouring rain deserves respect.

lets be honnest, thats the THE BEST “Best of you” has ever sounded, live or otherwise. and I LIKE the Foo Fighters.

While it was sobering and off putting to say the least, the crash itself was a spectacular tragedy—an insanely harsh reminder of how fragile these metal giants can be when given the right amounts of force in the wrong places.