You can’t economically upgrade these aircraft to a new type of engine. You can’t just swap any engine into a certificated aircraft. You can only do an engine swap if you get a supplemental type certificate from the FAA. This would cost millions of dollars for each variant of each type of aircraft.

That would completely destroy the aviation community.

Yes, there are. But you are glossing over several critical issues that have prevented widespread adoption. First, diesel aircraft engines are a lot heavier than gasoline engines and weight is critical in small aircraft. Second, they are a lot more expensive, and purchase price is already a huge issue for aviation. …

Yup.

Imagine if you walked around with a pistol on your hip every day and if you weren’t paying attention for a second and bumped into someone on the sidewalk, it jumped out of your pocket and shot the other person and you in the head.

1) Civil asset forfeiture is evil.

Did anyone expect something different from the UAW?  I mean, seriously, this is the UAW we are talking about. 

Slide shows are a way to boost clicks.  Instead of 1 pageview, an article with a 10 page slideshow results in 11 pageviews.  Thus more ad revenue.

Sorry, but either a show has superheros or it doesn’t. This one has superheros. That makes it uninteresting to me.

I’m just not interested in super hero movies or TV series.  It is a really big thing lately in Hollywood, but it just doesn’t interest me at all. 

I don’t drink.

I am not interested in watching any of these shows.  

Vaccine skepticism isn’t just limited to the MAGA crowd. One of the most prominent anti-vax “activists” is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Yes, he is a member of that family, so he is not a conservative. There is a significant group of anti-vaxxers who are progressive.

1st gear: Leases are almost always a bad idea.

A 12-year-old BMW that someone replaced the drivetrain as their pet project?  What could possibly go wrong?

You should see your optometrist. 

A Brit friend swears this story is true.  It happened quite a few years ago.  He and another Brit colleague flew for work to Australia.  As they were going through immigration control, the agent asked his colleague a number of questions, including whether he had any criminal convictions.  His colleague, being a snarky…

I recently rented from Avis. When I picked up my car, the dash said “service now”. I was tired and late, so I didn’t exchange the car. We picked it up on a Thursday with the reservation set to return it on Monday. On Saturday I received an email saying that we had returned the vehicle, which we hadn’t. I spent 45…

This is one of only a few French cars that I’ve always wanted to own.

I gave up caring about F1 a long time ago. An American driver in F1 won’t change that.