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Camaro/Firebird’s of the era. Plastic fantastic mostly all show and not too much go. Buddy had a Camaro that was nearly new and shake, rattled and rolled almost off the showroom floor.  Just no.

To be fair, I’m an air traffic controller and I have no idea what you asked of chatGPT because it made zero sense.

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The Ford Ka commercial where it straight murdered a bird. European car. It was specifically the Sport edition that was marketed as “Evil”. Cool little grocery getter that never made it to the states.

It is like that character in Mystery Men that is only invisible if no one is looking at him. 

Rivian has reportedly told owners not to use Conserve mode over long distances.”

CLEAR will be pedaling your data to all the happy bidders as well. Get Global Entry that includes TSA PreCheck, it works everywhere all the time. 

I just renewed my TSA-Pre status for another 4 years. Let me say, as a member of the legitimate fast track program, this private shitty company CLEAR needs to GO. Kick them out of airports. Of course, politicians love privatization, so they won’t.

At that size definitely, have been on one through a bit of far smaller hail and could hear it, would imagine tennis ball size getting hit at hundreds of miles an hour would sound like getting hit by a cannon, even if it breaks up there is just so much potential energy getting released. The pilot windows holding up is

I’ve been in a plane that got hit by MUCH smaller hail and it was like being machine-gunned in a garbage can up front. I can’t even imagine what this was like. Code Brown indeed, especially in the cockpit. Amazing they still had clear windows after that. Hail that big hitting even at just climbout speed has to be

Oh man I was so close

Keeping planes grounded due to climate change is a self-solving problem!

Saw the headline and thought surely it’s just another Jalopnik author exaggerating.

Similar to the theory that one day space junk will keep us trapped on earth...I wonder how bad global weather will need to deteriorate before the risk of flying is not worth it (in certain regions/at certain times of year/etc.)

Holes punched in wing... yeah, that’s pants shitting time.

Thanks. I was gonna say that

Guy just wanted to see his daughter!

Yeah I would have gotten arrested that day - I have always wanted to try a door slide - and that would have been the day. sure i would would have given it more than ab hour - but at hour 3... in coach as a 6 foot 6 inch tall person.. yeah im out.

If this is the case - why not cancel the flight within 60 minutes of realizing that the temperature will not be dropping any time soon? Weather reports are real time, unbelievable.

I hate myself for liking this as much as I do.