No. And again no. The history of airship crashes is well documented and the number is legion. No fancy instruments or predictive models are going to get your ship out of trouble when things go wrong, particularly when you can’t run a scheduled service to appease your investors who demand funny things like returns on…

1980 Jeep Grand Wagoneer with a V8 that, on a good day, got 10 mpg, and on a bad day (mountains + snow) got much less. No power to speak of, either, despite the V8.

I have an old-to-borderline ancient 2008 Prius. Best thing about it? You can dim the interior lights to the point where pretty much everything turns off save the ‘your lights are on’ and ‘passenger airbag’ notifiers. That includes the console screen and the speedometer. Almost completely dark.

Not a PBY. Looks like a Short Sunderland, a four engine British Flying boat. The PBY Catalina has two engines and a ‘mast’ going up to the wing instead of having the wing directly attached to the main fuselage.

Not a PBY. Looks like a Short Sunderland, a four engine British Flying boat. The PBY Catalina has two engines and a ‘mast’ going up to the wing instead of having the wing directly attached to the main fuselage.

The third phase kicks in after that when Toyota leverages a new vehicles software system to unlock new revenue streams, business models and hyper-efficient product development cycles

I was around for these the first time, growing up in Colorado where there were a whole bunch of these since your options for decent mountain driving were much more limited.

Get an old manual Toyota and learn on it. You don’t want it to be too big or too powerful because the best reason to drive stick, other than having a nigh theft-proof vehicle, is to be able to rent cars cheaply overseas.

Not exactly the high point of literature, but it formed my way of thinking about the automotive industry. And as a result, I’ve only ever bought one ‘American’ car, and it was basically a Mazda. Now if we’re going to widen the category to ‘transportation’ books, Ernest Gann’s Fate is the Hunter, no question.

My family’s owned Outbacks since the mid 1990s and I’ve had one since 2014. It’s a great compromise car: fantastic mountain/dirt road/winter car, has great crash protection, and holds a lot of cargo, particularly with the rear seats down. The gas mileage is not great but it’s acceptable. The main reason I like them is…

Eh, I’m given to understand Alabama has some fairly ferocious mud and the occasional hill. I’m sure a use can be found!

If they’re anything like my mother, who is in her mid-70s, they’ll use it to drive up into the Colorado mountains a dozen times a year, half in the winter, half in the summer/fall. Mom’s on her third Outback, and has driven them in white-out-blizzard conditions, in horrible dirt road conditions getting to my uncle’s…

We have a red 2008 Prius that looks essentially just like the picture on the article. We don’t drive it much (less than 60k on it), but it’s an excellent around-town vehicle, costs very little to run, and we’re going to keep it until we can replace it with an electric car (Tesla 3, Bolt, or something else), or it…

Interesting that it’s a Learjet and not a Mitsubishi MU-300/Hawker 400. Clearly not from corporate.

I’ll take that Piper Cub. Pretty plane.

Shouldn’t this be the 1.20 patch?

And he absolutely deserves to get into a fair bit of trouble for this one. He made a major mistake. The point of my original post was to address ‘how could this possibly happen’ by noting that 20L is the same length as Charlie taxiway to its immediate left, not a lot wider, and missing some of the big markings that…

Just pointing out what came up in the discussion.

This is not to absolve Ford of responsibility for his landing, but someone on the Reddit Flying subreddit pointed out that the runway he was directed to, 20L, is not well marked.

General Aviation aircraft are required to have an annual inspection. If he lost his license due to medical, then unless he was bringing a mechanic to his driveway to do the annual and fix any issues (unlikely, given his unwillingness to pay the $150/month tie-down fee), then the plane was almost certainly not…