jimway
JimmyNoVA
jimway

Bring back the Honcho name. C’mon, that’s just fun. Do it!

I have partial colorblindness (slight red-green) and I’m a private pilot. I can tell the red from green lights on planes flying over at night. If I wanted, I could get a SODA (Statement of Demonstrated Ability) by identifying light gun signals from the tower, just haven’t done so yet. So, to answer your question, I

And a completely appropriate choice of music for the video as well.

I’ve got two:

Spring of 1998, my good buddy Chris and I driving my 1993 Wrangler from the northern Virginia down to Carolina Beach, NC, outside of Wilmington. We were taking back roads so were on Rt 17 passing through the town of Jacksonville, NC and it was probably about 9 PM or so.

Jeebus. That was beautiful. What a perfect hit.

I’m in the DC metro area. If you want to be inconspicuous, the vehicle you want is a white Econoline.

“Southern Maid Donuts”? I’m not sure what they might be, but they’re definitely making me hungry.

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Some sense of the bounce the F-35Cs are experiencing can be seen in this video, at about the 7:00 and 9:00 minute marks.

It’s OK. Not the best of this series (“Best In Show”, “A Mighty Wind”, etc.) but still quite amusing.

Excellent concept but far too pricey. I’d rather have one of these for far less:

If I could star this more, I would.

We here at Defense News ran an informal poll back in February when the rendering was unveiled. (The original article is here but unfortunately the poll is no longer linked as we changed CMS.) The top names from our 7,000+ votes were:

Back when the B-21 was unveiled, in conjunction with the main article, we here at Defense News ran an informal poll on what our readers thought the name should be. Unfortunately, we moved to a new CMS so the poll results aren’t publicly available, but the top three results were:

Forgive my ignorance on this, but what is the advantage of this layout and that of the Deltawing, with the narrow front track? Handling? Weight? Aero? If there’s no distinct advantage over a more conventional four wheels on the corners layout, than what’s the point? Why bother?

“We blew the shit out of that over-priced motherfucker...”

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