Great article. thanks! I would emphasize video EVERYTHING with a smartphone. I was involved in an accident that was clearly the other driver’s fault. We both pulled over and I realized I had no reading glasses with me (yeah, I’m that age) I got out and the guy was apologizing like crazy. I was calm and we exchanged…

wow! that looks like a painting. what a shot.

Great news, Tyler. Love your articles. buena suerte!

Wow! shades of Tex Johnston! Can’t wait to see the barrel-roll over Lake Washington!

‘I almost thought it was going to do a backflip’

nice pic of Tulum. and, if you haven’t been there, the water really IS that blue.

I dunno - it IS Cinco de Mayo, after all. And this fits with other LH articles.

Adam - that exact thing happened to me on our trip to Cozumel Mexico last year. I was topping off our rental car before taking it back and he short changed me the same way and started to walk away. first time that has happened in 28 years of going there. I speak some Spanish and I said loudly, ‘Senor! - when he turned…

‘...supposedly tech-savvy nominee like Fiorina...’

btw; keep in mind, people, today test pilots learn to fly a realistic simulator before they get behind the wheel of a prototype on it’s first real flight. Back then, they just put a pilot in it and wished him luck. If he or the airplane failed, it was back to the drawing board.

Wow! I had no idea that video existed! Thanks Tyler! Schalk’s narration makes it all the more impressive.

I'm still trying to imagine what it must be like standing there watching an F-14 in full AB on the wire. It would be difficult to top that for awesome.

This brings back memories. My brother has been into 4WD all our lives and I was thinking of getting one. A Scout came up for sale and I asked Bro what he thought of it. He said, 'If you buy that Scout, we're not brothers!'... I bought a '77 Ford Bronco (last of the small body broncs) instead. It turned out to be good…

Wow! Loved it, Tyler! I was riveted from the first word. Outstanding pics to go with it too.

I disagree. I don't think Kelly Johnson would have even let the F-35 off the drawing board. Since every aircraft is a compromise by nature, he always insisted on serious mission-specific design parameters. This F-35 'one-size-fits-everybody' approach wouldn't even have made it past his desk.

'At the time, many of the technologies needed to make these airplanes were considered "impossible." And yet, thanks to Kelly Johnson and the amazing team at engineers and scientists at Lockheed's Skunk Works, they were invented from scratch—in twenty months.'

If you want to start over, go Milwaukee M18. I hate to sound like a shill here, but as a guy who has sold power tools to industrial contractor customers for 25 years (and, believe me, these guys know what works!) Milwaukee was their favorite brand. The only reason they bought the yellow tools was because they factored…

I've had 'em all, starting with the first Makitas. Then I went to Bosch and then to Milwaukee 14V when that came out. I was in the commercial industrial supply business and had access to all of them but the manufacturers started having these voltage 'wars' and I waited for the M18 on the advice of our Milwaukee rep…

We had a large home remodel coming up and already had a bank line of credit for it. We got an airline miles credit card and bought all the materials with that and paid it off every month with the credit line. When we finished the project, we paid off the card and had enough miles built up for a round trip to Cancun…

Wow! thanks Tyler - I've never seen that shot before. I'll bet that photographer's ears are still ringing. But it would be totally worth it.