But every now and then, the dragons come to call

As someone who used to test jet engines, I’d think it’d be much better to ingest the bird into a (single) engine. Less likely to cause injury, and the planes are designed and tested to fly for hours on a single engine.  Now, both engines?  That's a bit of a problem. 😆

My first (and second) car was a 1987 Hyundai Excel.  Crappy salvage titles, manual everything except the moon roof.  I still miss them sometimes.

Wings hold a lot more than engines and flaps; in flight, wings are holding up the entire plane.

Jaguar C-X75

I knew a Marine pilot that had to reject from an F-18 off the coast of California.  He was uninjured, but when he retired he got extra in his check because he was "0% disabled."

I didn’t sell it, but I did give my ‘91 Honda Accord to my sister. It was the car I took my driver’s test in, and my mom had given it to me. I loved that car. But my sister was having money trouble and I had a second vehicle, so I passed it on. Within 7 months my sister blew the motor and sold the car to someone for…

Wheeljack?

P&W per Planespotters:

Any Transformers show or movie that shows Optimus Prime with lips is automatically bad, and has to work hard to overcome that deficit.

Plug-in hybrids are a far better choice than pure EV's right now.

Yes, many of the recent issues (but not all!) are the fault of the airlines, specifically maintenance, and Boeing has nothing to do with them.

I bought a ‘57 Bel Air Sport Sedan in 2005, but had nowhere to store it. In 2006 I bought a house, and the primary requirement was a 3-car garage so I could store the Chevy in a garage. I told the realtor I would be willing to look at a 2-room shack, as long as it had a 3-car garage.

I mean, Florida had almost a dozen traffic fatalities in the first week of 2024, so maybe it's not the train?

Fun fact - the very last 747 ever built had ashtrays in the cockpit, because Boeing re-used the certified 747-400 cockpit design and it would have cost too much to recertify it.

the magic of Apple TV+’s space fantasy

I had an ‘87 Hyundai Excel 4-door hatchback, and often gave people rides home.  One day a lot of people asked for rides and I said yes to all of them.  There were three people in the front passenger seat, 7 people in the back seat, and two in the back.  I’m surprised the car could move.

Huh.  That didn't work for me.

Yeah, but how far back do you have to go to trigger the epilogue?  They say "before the final battle", but where exactly does the "final battle" start?

747 is a hell of a bird.