Forty hours is the minimum, but the national average is somewhere in the 50-70 range. 50 is usually for people in an actual flight school (where, you guessed it, they fly every day or close to it). The more often you go, the less time it’ll take. I’m going on 3 years in training (I have about 50-60 hours) because I…

The driver’s face was modeled after Robert Picardo (the EMH from Star Trek: Voyager), who also provided the voice.

I’m in Tulsa and I’m similarly tempted. 

Not gonna lie I was expecting this to be another Garage 54 ENG video.

Reverse: Alan Bean (and no I didn’t look it up).

So, this is a weird question, but how many Jalopnik writers live in Michigan? Until now I thought David Tracy was the only one.

The best part of the Cookie Monster is the hazard/police notifications. “Police reported ahead! ...do you see them? Do you think they want cookie?”

Forgot that FADEC is a thing. I’m a student pilot working on my PPL so I have some knowledge of basic runway ops, but the multiengine and turbine stuff is a mystery, hence my question. Thanks for the info. The 10-15 second number is from memory (and I wasn’t actually counting) so could be closer to the 6-7 seconds you…

Great, thanks. So I was on an A320 the other day flying from TUL to IAH and once we crossed the threshold and were pointed down the runway, the pilot seemed to advance the throttles (what I felt to be) rather gradually, probably 10-15 seconds from idle to full thrust, compared with probably 5 seconds in the other…

Just out of curiosity, what are you type rated for? I just got back from vacation and I have some 737 and A320 questions that I’m not sure who I can ask.

Spider of a Doubt

Queen at #13 is at least 10 spots too low.

I live in the Tulsa area, can confirm. It was a big deal, my uncle had tickets to the unveiling which was even more underwhelming than it looks in the picture. Last I heard some chemical rust removal company was supposed to be working on it as a demo, but that was a long time ago. 

My dad’s originally from Decatur, IL, so we’ve been Bears and Cubs fans since I can remember. My wife’s family is all from the Kansas City area. I jumped ship last year. The Chiefs have their issues, but it’s nice to watch a fun quarterback.

One of my favorite anecdotes of Leonov comes from the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Tom Stafford, commander of the Apollo part of the mission, is from Weatherford, Oklahoma, in the western part of the state. Because of his accent when speaking Russian, Leonov made the joke that there were three languages spoken on the…

I went to Tulsa, and while it’s nice to see them in a nationally televised game (usually we only get 1 a year) it was rather frustrating to see just how many stupid penalties they racked up. Yes the kicker situation is terrible, and SMU did seem to be playing better on both sides of the ball in the second half, but TU…

I think I read somewhere that the premise is that Sergei Korolev didn’t die in 1966 like he did in our reality, and was available to therefore available help the Soviet space efforts and not let them run out of steam through 1968 and 1969 like they did in our reality. I don’t remember where I read that, but it’s at…

HOLY CRAP IT’S JAMIE KITMAN ON JALOPNIK

Just gonna leave this here: