What? No Ball Thrust Bearings? Consider me greatly disappointed.

I'm kidding, I loled reading your list.

Ball thrust bearings do exist, btw!

http://www.thomasnet.com/products/beari…

Yeah, I just wanted to shed some admiration on the awesomeness of being so ugly that all enemies on the battlefield will shit bricks at the mere thought of being abruptly blown away by an unseen predator in the dead of night.

I see calling the Apache an ugly beast is a point of affection in that sense! Ditto for other…

I never found the Apache ugly - more like beautiful giant sized mechanized insects of doom :)

The Apache also has that awesome turreted chain gun slaved to a helmet mounted sight. Against numerous dispersed personnel in cover, the chain gun (coupled with the Apache's excellent targeting systems) is far more effective.

Ha! Someone should make it shoot flames!

It's pretty much a flying cargo ship and hotel all in one then. Can't beat the formula of yours. Now about those airport taxes...

Are the MPGs affected by the boxy shape primarily or was it something else. Methinks it depends on usage - city car, no one cares about coefficient of drag. Highway, yep, will make a difference.

If the F-4 back-seaters were using handheld laser designators to mark targets for their all-new BOLT-117 LGBs, yep they definitely existed :)

I certainly hope such an article about WW2 aircraft design would come up some day.

In particular, how different battlefield conditions and operating altitudes can drastically alter aircraft engineering philosophy. Soviet fighters for instance tend to be surprisingly small and "under armed" compared to massive, powerful…

Tyler, I dig the sci fi fonts used in this article. Especially on the GBU54 and GBU12 comparison. What font is that?

Also I didn't know a Pave Knife looked so cool! Awesome pics and writeup.

The miles per gallon rating is not very favorable for single passenger transport.

Also how do I park this thing in the parking garage?

Holy crap. It's named the Exocet. Most awesome racecar name, ever.

Since they were going to take offense anyway why not just get a car from the USA with a vanity plate that says VULCAN558?
:)

Thanks ! Never knew reverse search was this easy.

Where can I download that in super duper hi res?

I need to change my desktop wallpaper due to immense awesomeness.

"Before VW's famous, understated and witty DDB ad campain from the '60s,"

Visited the article for the word "campain".

Sweet photos! Raptor looks like a spaceship with that kind of lighting.

I would have used it but I got distracted by the Dr. Who references :)

I paused the video right at the moment the explosion occurred. You can see two large objects at the top of the frame. They don't look anywhere close to an aircraft munition but rather pieces flying off the howitzer when it blew itself up.

Two irregular pieces of metal from different vectors that don't look anywhere as…

I'll be sure to check it out! Thanks for the recommendation.

I've only recently started to gain an appreciation of Century Series fighters, after spending many nights reading up on early jet evolutions. I've read a lot about the Century fighters in non-fiction books covering the Vietnam conflict but I hadn't gained…