Respect to you for saying “Nordic” and not “Scandinavian”. :)

Another P100D comes up and recharges the first one while they’re barreling around the circuit...

At a guess: Take out almost all the interior furnishings. Replace what is left with equivalents made of lighter weight materials. Replace the windows and mechanisms with fixed lightweight windows. (Windows are heavy.) Remove things like boot lid motor, windshield wipers, etc... Replace the rims with lighter weight…

I bet Fox didn’t give itself a location rental discount for talent salary as well as tax reasons. They could charge the full amount to the movie production, decreasing its net profit.

Right on.

To be honest, builders of these things tend to understand the purist argument and even agree with it. But they also need to consider practicality and safety. It’s all fun and games until the thing snaps off and heavy bits break the foot of a 5-year old.

More like 50000 years, though special prep enables dating of older stuff.

If you use Chrome (you don’t use Chrome?!?), the Great Suspender can help.

This article was really confusing on the mobile version since the picture was cropped, leaving the Ghost out of frame...

+1.

The real-life version stands over 65 feet tall,

It would depend on the specific track. For the record, I don’t fly in the area in question, but on a straighforward great circle I’m guessing you’d see Belfast, Shannon, Reykjavik and Gander, followed by Winnipeg and Minneapolis.  Thule Air Base Greenland maybe but I don’t know if they have the level of medical…

As others have mentioned, long haul airliners are certainly not emergency rooms, but they aren’t badly equipped as random locations to have a cardiac event go. Compared to a car in the middle of nowhere, being on an airliner means that there is equipment in situ and advice on call.

None other than...

You definitely have a point that the skillset needs to be improved, but just having more handflight practice won’t really help, as in my opinion that is only a small part of the issue.

It does happen. People get moved about all the time to solve last minute problems such as kids not being seated with their parents. You’re more likely to get an exit row or a less-crappy-than-middle seat than an upgrade, though.

THIS!