Way to call attention to the atrocities without any psychological context.

Those improper maintenance procedures caused the crash of AA 191 at O’Hare. If it had just resulted in separation of the engine it probably would have been survivable. What doomed the flight was the engine severing hydraulics as it cartwheeled over the wing and triggering uncommanded port side slat retraction and…

Pratt & Whitney TF33. It’s used on the B-52H, KC/EC-135C, C-141 and a bunch of others.

Forgive my ignorance on the topic but wouldn’t it be possible to design a system that shuts off the engine in event of an imbalance rather than just having it fall off the plane? 

“because the covers hadn’t been fitted during an extended layover.” I had a job as a kid cutting grass at a local airport. One of my jobs (as I drove the little riding mover through the field of parked Cessnas and Pipers) was to write down tail#s of any planes that had missing pitot covers, or wasp nests in the…

On the whole subject of “unsuspecting public”, to me, that seems reasonable. Because, while still terrible, it’s better for a small chance for a engine landing on someone or multiple people/property/etc, than the engine from taking the entire wing off and thus causing more damage. I’m not happy with either outcome,…

I just did a long post about that. It actually shucked the engine BEFORE taking off, but too late to RTO. And it wasn’t the actual loss of the engine that doomed the flight, the DC-10 was well capable of getting airborne and returning safely without it. It was what happened to the leading edge slats, and the fact that…

The pins were not the point of failure there...what happened was ground crews had found a time-saving workaround when removing and re-hanging an engine that saved a lotta tedious disconnects from having to be done, by disconnecting the engine and its pylon as a whole unit, rather than trying to split the engine from…

I’m no pilot, but I am amazed at how crucial yet basic those pitot tubes are. Weren’t they partially responsible for the Air France crash?

There were a few shear-pin (also known as fuse pin) failures on DC-10's a long time ago. If I recall correctly the proper maintenance procedures for removing & rehanging the engines was not followed. Due to a lack of the proper tooling the service crew used a forklift to hold the engine in place, which put undue…

Better to drop one than have some harmonic resonance set up that does something silly like, oh, fatigue a main spar to failure mid-flight.

A military pilot called for a priority landing because his single-engine jet fighter was running “a bit peaked.” Air Traffic Control told the fighter pilot that he was number two, behind a B-52 that had one engine shut down. “Ah,” the fighter pilot remarked, “The dreaded seven-engine approach.”

I love the 1960 Cadillacs. Honestly the best year of the tailfin era. That fin and rear lamp design screams “jet age” in a way the excess of the 1959 cars never did.

And with that, it is time to wrap up the week and go home. Bourbon awaits.

It’s a compromise. Wanted one for years, but I was 39 before I could comfortably afford a new STI. Yes, it’s noisy, sucks premium gas at 16.5mpg, and has a stupid wing on the back, but they are so much fun to drive. All the controls are precise, steering is razor sharp. It puts a smile on my face every time I drive it.
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Yeah I kinda agree more with you than I disagree with you actually about the STI/WRX actually just as soon as things go about scene bashing things get heated in general and then it gets messy. I don’t really identify with any particular scene and after kinda reading your original post it seems like you was more…

These cars are for people who say ‘I don’t drive anything without red calipers, bruh.. or just say ‘bruh’ in general’. They’re brutal and fun but sadly fall between the gap of ‘could buy’ and ‘should buy’.

I’m nowhere near 45 and enjoy having a car with 4 doors and a trunk that provides me with so much confidence in being able to maneuver out of potential collisions. For those in cold climates, it’s also a tool for getting from A to B with relative ease. There are very few cars that can provide that combination of…

Unfortunately with the newer versions of these cars, you are right. I drive a ‘12 WRX because I love Subaru. I don’t say bruh, I don’t vape, and I don’t want my car scraping the ground because it’s stanced to hell, so I fit into a minority of WRX/STI owners because I just enjoy cars for what they are.