He’s been a steadfast advocate for easier opening rear hatches, since his joint stint with Ford Motor Company and Porsche AG, back in the early 1990s.

Here is footage from one of his earliest hatch-opening demonstrations, just outside of Annapolis, MD, in 1992 (incidentally, it’s also a fantastic demonstration of just…

You may be sad about all the potential for cracked spleens, but, curiously, Hyundai’s lead liftgate engineer, Sean Miller, seems pleased.

I’m from Canada btw.

It’s called a mid-air engagement. It’s a very, very bad thing.

Ferry disasters usually have high losses of life because ferries are full of hundreds of people, most of whom have little or no safety training, dozens, if not hundreds of unsecured vehicles and travel relatively short routes relatively frequently.

Unless you're using BLU-107's or another munition specifically designed to damage runways, damage to a runway or road surface from a general purpose bomb is relatively easy and quick to repair. During the Falklands War, the Brits bombed Argentine runways with GP bombs, typically rendering them inoperable by fast jets…

From a strategic/political standpoint, Belarus, under Lukashenko, might as well be a Russian republic.

The RD-33 smokes like a J79, especially during large throttle changes, however, in the close-in ACM that the MiG-29 was designed for — and the visual signature of that smoke is irrelevant — the MiG-29 has shown to be on-par with the F-16 and better than the legacy Hornet. (Ask anyone who flew Vipers against the…

You've obviously never seen the inside of a front-line fighter cockpit. I guarantee you, that if you walk onto a flight line full of F-16s, F-15s or legacy F/A-18s, you'd see just as much worn paint around the instrument panel shroud and commonly used switches. Combat jets are machines of war, not the flying…

Back when I was a college student living in DC, I was dating a woman who lived in Atlanta, so I flew AirTran regularly. The 717s were nice, the crews friendly and the flights almost always on-time.

It's still better than the dueling morons we have to put up with:

I'm a GW grad - CSAS 2001.

A 29¢ Bic pen remains one of the most dangerous items found onboard commercial airliners. Far more dangerous than a 'box cutter' or any of the silly items restricted by the TSA post-9/11.

Honestly one of the safest possible places to be during a hurricane.

If only Jezebel could use its powers for good and promote other Kickstarter projects which also just happen to feature nekkidness (including penises!):

I miss my '87 635CSi/5. I sold it in 2011, because I couldn't fit two child seats in the cabin.

The 9S35 Fire Dome is a tracking, engagement and CW guidance radar.

Yup. That 9S35 Fire Dome radar on the front of the TELAR turret is just there for decoration, right?

You make your point… as delicately as ever, Mr. Pelt.

Ray, I was unaware that the F-14's Air Data Computer represented the first use of an integrated microprocessor (nor was I aware that the Navy prevented publication of the design for nearly 30 years), though I was aware that the F-14's CADC did represent the first digital ADC (it controlled wing sweep/glove vane…