Thank for actually reading my comment AND looking at the annotation in the picture.

That’s what the gates stopping traffic are for.

Can anyone make out what these are? I’d guess Spitfires or Hurricanes, like in the picture below, but it’s hard to tell.

Am I the only one who’s worried about FOD from the car/truck traffic? Do they sweep the runway before aircraft take off?

...what kind of rifle were you selling that a Fiero was a reasonable trade?

You’re missing the point of my last sentence:

This. A sporty, two seat mid engined coupe with space age plastic body panels over a space frame chassis and an available V6? Sounds perfect until you realize that the suspension and brakes were stolen from the most mediocre cars in GM’s lineup, the V6 took a few years to get to market and wasn’t all that great when…

The useless trunk is a symptom. Don’t forget the cramped interior, cheap build quality, clunky truck transmission, awkward to raise and lower top...They were Miatas seemingly built by someone who looked at the Miata’s spec sheet without ever driving or living with one. The Solstice and Sky completely missed out on the…

Hammond, from the evil mirror universe, came to our universe to bring the crazy, face punching mirror Clarkson back home but got distracted by a Lagonda and some ice cream.

I think (hope actually) that it winds up like the F-111 and F-14. The F-111 was intended to serve as a interceptor and a long range bomber. The F-111 was a passable bomber and strike aircraft, but a terrible fighter. That lead to the F-14, which took the engines, radar and weapons intended for the F-111’s fighter…

To be fair, the Bradley has matured into a capable and reliable platform. Sure, the development was a clusterf*ck, and several different vehicles specifically designed for each application would have been better, but it’s not utterly useless. Even the much maligned Stryker that followed has it’s uses.

Awesome picture. I’d use this as a wallpaper if it was higher resolution.

I’ve heard reports that they’ve hired Ukrainians as maintainers for their MiGs, like most dysfunctional African nations do.

That’s a good question that I can’t really answer - by the time I joined the project, the touch screen type had been settled on and most discussion I heard about the touch screen type revolved around EMI issues with a capacitive system. The only thing I could think of is that the packaging of the laser/infrared…

I watched part of it’s development cycle, where fairly late in the game Boeing changed the decompression test spec from reasonable (which the previous design used in the KC-767 aerial refueling officer control/display unit passed without issue) to absurd. Touch displays operate in one of several ways. One of the most…

Fun fact - that is a touch screen. Do you know what’s hard to do with a touch screen that big? Make it survive explosive decompression tests. Ask me how I know.

California seems to ban everything fun, and tax the crap out of everything in the same time zone as fun.

Camouflage paint schemes and colored roundels need to make a comeback.

So, it’s like an Active Electronically Scanned Array Radar, but used as a communication antenna. Neat.

I’m not going to lie - that bugged more than the awful and forced love story.