Thanks for the summary - nice job. FWIW - I had the op to see a SR-71 fly by at an air show at Point Mugu Naval Station air strip …many years ago. It first lumbered by just feet off the runway, and right in front of the grand stands. It's second run it went full throttle, and the flames out the engines were broken…

thanks for the list!

My wife (an ops engineer at Dryden Armstrong) hits me over the head every time I say U-2. I require constant reminders that they are ER-2s.

Because no one wants to live in crazy-ass Waco

I've seen them live. Justin Hawkins is everything you'd expect and more. He didn't miss a single one of those falsetto notes, and his guitar playing is flipping epic.

I don't think so. The F has way too many vents at the nose to be an example of simple elegance. Ian was rather facetious with his answer.

I'm afraid I'm of the school of thought that a lot of Senna's legendary status has come about because of his criminally early and tragic demise.

The video is 9 minutes, 18 seconds long. Someone was thinking.

For those of you that cant decide which host you like the most, this is Adam Tannerut.

I saw a 458 driving down the street the other day with a fire truck right behind it. My friends were very confused by my random bout of uncontrollable laughter.

Anyone reminds that one? The Renault Espace F1, with a V10 engine straight from the fromula one car!

“In Europe, the understanding is that this mandate actually encourages good husbandry on farms. It’s in the farmers’ best interests then to produce to cleanest eggs possible, as no one is going to buy their eggs if they’re dirty"

This doesn't make the industry enough money!

You know what?! I'm a little angry at you for posting this. Last finals week of undergrad, have to write a report on a stupid senior design project (design an aircraft that's lighter, faster, cheaper, more techie, and more efficient than what is currently offered by experienced teams of engineers, and nothing gets…

Happily for this discussion I kept a copy of Lewis' tweets when he thought Jenson Button had 'unfollowed' him. Dunno if you say this in the US but he threw his toys out of the pram when that happened

This is also good, less voiceover of coarse

absolutely a thing of beauty.

It's so amazing to see McRae slide a rally car around Silverstone!

I was wondering if anyone was going to post that. It's such a beauty, although I'm also partial to the DB601s also. Two excellent engines!

Well, as the Jaguar straight six has already been posted, I nominate the Rolls-Royce Merlin. It has been put in cars, so it qualifies on a technicality! Best-sounding engine yet built, I reckon...