The latest MS Flight Sim was released in 2006 - but the box says Pentium III as a minimum. I think it would probably run on a Pentium II (the cores weren’t that different) but the frame rate will be horrible.

I’m sure you could Google for it.

Ford already makes one.

(or the occasional pop-up)

A P-51d could do over 400mph, and would cruise over 300. That’s fine for something like an F35.

Yes, you’re right. That was an utter maths fail and I shall hang my head in shame.

Based on a total tax take of $1tn, that’s $4bn. It’s nowhere near enough. 66% of the average salary (according to Google) is about $17,800, and pro rata for 12 weeks that’s $4,100, as near as makes no difference. You’d be able to pay for around 1,000,000 births with $4bn, and according to the CDC there are around…

Here in the UK (For that is where I am) unemployment, pension, health, and welfare benefits are all rolled together into one payment, called “National Insurance”, however our maternity pay is dealt with by the employer. When we refer to “welfare” here we are talking generally about money that the government gives to…

The Canadian system would require a huge expansion of the welfare system to pay for it. That’s a non-starter.

The US legal system (apart from Louisiana) still works on the Common Law system, like the UK - all laws dating from prior to 1776 still come from England. We haven’t abolished it either - in 2002 a mechanic asked for trial by combat over a $40 fine from our version of the DMV. They said no, but a magistrate’s…

It’s definitely the right word, because if it wasn’t a restoration of an existing aeroplane there’s likely no aviation authority in the world would certify it to fly. Everybody knows that the only thing carried over is the identity, but that’s just the way it works.

Bearing in mind that this:

I had a shitbox I would never start on the starter - I have a steep driveway so I’d just back on to it in the evening, and roll off in the morning.

That’s an “end goal”. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” has always been a truism in the middle east. So long as he’s not bombing Turkey and ISIS are still around, he’ll be pretty safe.

I’m trying to work out whether Turkey is going to invoke Article 5 at the meeting they’ve convened next week. Actually, what I’m pondering is whether Turkey has been eager for somebody stupid from ISIS to fire over the border so they could invoke Article 5, and whether they can throw the PKK in there too and force the…

But a no-fly zone is a bit of a waste of time given that neither ISIS or the PKK have aeroplanes. The only people that are flying are the Syrians, and they’re bombing ISIS and the PKK as well.

I feel like the armorers in the Turkish Air Force were playing “F-16 Buckaroo” with this one.

Definitely. There used to be a difference between trolling and being an awful person. I think that the world has lost that distinction, and I’m pretty sure it’s the Daily Mail’s fault.