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?”

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…

HOLY CRAP IT’S JAMIE KITMAN ON JALOPNIK

Just gonna leave this here:

I’m about an hour away from Disney, can confirm. Great trails, it’s been a while though.

I know I’m a little late to the party, but I’ve always said that if I start crapcan racing, I’m doing it in a Toyota Echo. My wife used to have one, and while it didn’t have much power, it had a short enough wheelbase to be nice and tossable, and was super light (even more so by the time you strip it) so the lack of…

And if you want the V8 power, you can just drop in one of these:

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(Student) pilot here. The “elevator” is the flap on the horizontal portion of the tail that deflects up or down to point the nose up or down - in other words, if it was jammed, the airplane wouldn’t climb at all, and the takeoff had to be aborted regardless of what speed the airplane was traveling. That being said,…

My grandpa worked for Rocketdyne back in the late 50's/early 60's out near Neosho. Also worked for North American and Rockwell, even met Wernher von Braun once at the Tulsa plant.