Yeah, for a proper Torchinsky article their needs to be a part where the buses are charged by pedal powered generators at each seat that convert childhood obesity into electricity.

You okay Torch? This idea is quite logical, practical, and very doable... somewhat atypical for a guy who posits electric eels as range extenders.

Yes, why is this even a topic!? Miata. Miata. Miata.

Miata. And not because miata is always the answer

Drive for another team the first few times to get a feel of how you want to do things?

Hum, late 70 boring domestic car, handles like a pig, brakes like a pig, corners like a pig, starts like a pig, accelerates like a pig, safe as an angry pig, all said and done, you would be much better off spending $4,500 on pulled pork sandwiches. CP all day!

The term “stall” has a very specific meaning in aviation, and it does not apply to a sudden engine failure, like how Andrew uses it in this article. The descriptions by chaboud and PaulW cover it pretty well.

Exactly this. I read this thinking, yeah, I had to practice scenarios like this when I learned to fly a plane.

Stalling is definitely a confusing term for non-pilots. The angle of attack has no bearing on engine performance but everything to do with a wing’s ability to maintain lift. A modern fighter can still stall their airfoil, but the engine’s thrust is adequate to overcome this. Well, unless you’re on final. Then a stall…

Also: Engine cuts out on stunt plane =/= all planes will fall from sky, so take a bus.

Yeah the road looks workable, certainly not something you’d want to land a squirrelly aerobatics plane on, but workable. The fields though would have absolutely destroyed that plane and likely the pilot. That looks way more like Florida swamp than alfalfa pasture. There’s a lot of standing water in that green, he’d…

Didn’t look unfriendly at all, in fact that would have be an absolutely perfect place to land (that green field would have been fine as well), not to mention an incredibly easy landing. As a pilot, you are blowing this wayyyy out of proportion. This is about as best case scenario as it gets for an engine out landing.

For less than $3000 you can get a really nice prostitute that will also wreck your marriage and give you the same burning and itchy sensation for days. The upside is she won’t be sitting in your driveway mocking you for months afterwards.

I love how the HOA announcement throws quotations around the word “reasonable.”

We have different definitions of “useable” sir.

...said no real jalop ever

I know I’m close to a year late... but Helios is the sun, not the wind.

Perhaps they can put one of those large high tension line ceramic insulators under the hood with a Jacobs ladder attached like in the old Frankenstein movies. Sparks flying everywhere and loud buzzing! Neon lights! Vacuum tubes! Celebrate electricity and the magic of it all.

The whole car doesn't make sense. In a world that is getting more and more densely populated with more and more congestion, it makes less and less sense to have hugely long, hugely wide car. An unpainted, burnished aluminium body likely to be crafted by hand? That's a labour intensive affair to fix if it gets…