Also dealers and manufacturers don’t like them because they don’t make as much money on them. Profit margins are lower than trucks and SUVs.

The moon is 840 pounds lighter? So that’s why it’s moving away from the earth at about 1.5 inches/year!

Would the ”runaway trim” procedure have worked for the MCAS failure? My understanding is that the MCAS failure could go to full deflection down trim in about 10-12 seconds, and that at such a high deflection, there’s too much aerodynamic force on the stabilizer for the pilot to use the manual trim wheel to adjust it…

You’re right. I finally found an image that shows the LEAP-1B on a MAX 10 that clearly shows the chevrons and pylon matching the image in the article. Interesting how many images there are of the MAX with engines that don’t have the chevrons. Good call.

None of the images of the MAX I’m finding have the chevrons on the engines. More importantly, the engine pylon doesn’t look right for the MAX, because you can see them. OTOH, the cockpit glass does look like a 737. Maybe a 737 NG?

Based on recent conversations with multiple local auto shops when trying to figure out what was wrong with my 20-year-old Blazer (a vehicle so analog that the culprit was vacuum tubes)

Not to mention that the instant torque that you get from electric motors is going to mess with your reactions.

Is that akin to the idea that the Japanese killed thousands of US auto worker jobs when OPEC caused oil prices to rise? On the flip side the argument is that it was the fault of the American auto companies and unions for pushing unreliable shit boxes on buyers while telling everyone to be patriotic and “buy American.”

I knew it was going to be a shitstorm of comments. It’s all in fun.

Soft g: g + i; magic, margin, engine.

But isn’t the Toyota Camry and the Lexus ES350 pretty much the same vehicle. The 6-cylinder Camry is spec’ed 1 hp less and the same torque as the ES350, for instance. One is a Chevy and the other is a Buick or Cadillac.

I’ll dig his heart out with a spoon! Why a spoon cousin? Because it will hurt more!

I’ve heard that Kia is horrible because they sold some of the cheapest new cars around, so people with questionable credit would go to them. If you have questionable credit and need a replacement car right now, it’s easy to fall into a trap.

There needs to be an option for an explosion sound effect when you hit the delete button.

And to think, all this madness is just so Bill Gates can inject his mind control chips that will be hidden in the “vaccines” that will give us all autism so Hillary Clinton can turn us into communist baby-eating drones.

From the 737-MAX!

You wouldn’t think that vibration resistance had anything to do with their decision to use a soldered part. The board it sits on has an edge connector to plug it into the system. That and 8GB is so small nowadays that that part might actually cost more than one with a larger capacity.

I had a Mazda 626 that started randomly losing power. It turned out to be a bad muffler. A baffle had broken lose and would sometimes press up against the next one such that the exhaust was severely restricted. When I would pull over it usually opened back up, until the next random time.

It might depend. Young single people probably see living in the city, with all of the benefits the city brings to that lifestyle, as a positive. If you can increase/maintain the number of people in a city while at the same time reduce traffic, due to less commuting by WFH people, you improve the livability of the city.…

5th Gear: Drivers in large cities would love for other people to use public transit so that their commute is easier. They just don’t want to help pay for something that they benefit from but don’t use.