F-450 Platinum stops just shy of 100k, but once you tack on paperwork fees, sales tax and such, it’ll easily hit 100k. That said, I wonder how many people pay MSRP for those.

GM controls the market because they were smart and didn’t switch completely over to unibody crossovers What other options are there for BOF SUVs? 4Runner/GX460 (smaller than the Tahoe), Land Cruiser/LX570 (at $85k+ they only compete against the Escalades), Expedition/Navigator (surprised they still make them), did I…

Not that popular in Mexico either. Square Ramchargers are more common (I believe they were also sold a few more years after they discontinued it in the US)

The issue is also present on civilian/retail models, so it’s definitely not an upfitting issue. In any case, the police models are usually prepared from the factory for wiring and all those police mods.

Yup. the Tsuru is getting killed because Mexico is finally mandating instant pillows for the front seats and ABS also has a target date (2019 or so).

Probably slightly worse. Airbags became mandatory in the US in the mid 90s, but the 2017 Tsuru still has no airbags, plus 1992 crash standards. Some people say, but I have no way to verify it, that Nissan removed crash beams from the doors since they were not required in Mexico, that they switched to thinner steel to…

Stale corn chips?????? A wet and soggy corn tortilla is more rigid than a Tsuru.

I did some digging.

Would you say the experience was... almost intents?

Did you drive away?

Nope. what you’re describing is more or less the ADS-B transceiver. Each plane has a unique hex identifier, and it broadcasts its coordinates, flight number, registration, altitude, heading and I think speed. The catch is that the ADS-B also requires a ground base station to receive, so you won’t receive broadcasts…

I’m no VW connoisseur, but check to see if any of the parts you need are common to the Brazilian aircooled VWs, the Mexican Brasilia, or even the Mexican Bug. While I don’t guarantee you finding a junkyard full of Brasilias in Mexico, you might be able to find a part or two.

Yeah, I don’t know in which case it would be acceptable or legal to turn it off on a commercial plane, but it needs to be accessible to the pilots in some form or another.

Very big. It’s surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water.

Transponder must be accessible to the crew, as the squawk code is given by ATC (also the need to squawk 7500/7600/7700 if needed)

I think the only notable cases of engines being replaced with more efficient ones were the DC-8 and the 727, in the civilian market. In both cases the STC came too late in the planes’ lifecycle and only expanded their viability as cargo conversions for a little while (I think most DC-8s and re-engined 727s are now…

How do you communicate the data out of the Arduino?

Real time diagnostics, to be alerted if a plane is hijacked (sudden changes in course, altitude, etc), to know if the plane is otherwise in distress (think the Helios crash and the Payne Stewart crash, in both cases the plane flew with all passengers and crew unconscious until it ran out of fuel), etc.

United Technologies Corp. They own Otis, Pratt & Whitney, Hamilton-Sundstrand, Kidde, Carrier, and a bunch of other companies. They used to own Sikorsky but I think they offloaded that. I believe their UTC Aerospace Systems company is what used to be Goodrich Aerospace, as well. Yuge conglomerate.

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