Someone should tell them the big-shoulder look is out.

Ah, I stand corrected, then. What a cool website, too. Don’t know how I missed it! Thanks!

Thanks for the info! I knew about the stiffness of the “space suits,” but I’d never heard of the Wiffle ball! Sometimes, it’s the simplest things, right?

Honda, please look up the Streisand Effect, then get back to us. In the meantime, enjoy this awesome video of a nifty shifter we like:

Yeah, take some time to read through Roadrunners, there are many eye-opening stories on there!

I realized later (at 3:00 in the morning) that I should have just written my own article on it. Instead, a very long tl;dr. Glad you enjoyed, though! The HABU/Sled/Blackbird is, hands-down, my favorite military aircraft!

In the above photograph, we clearly see the Unit Identification code of SR-71A 64-17963* painted in “blood red,” with the unique tail stripe of the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, 9th Reconnaisance Wing, Beal AFB, California. The 1 RS is the oldest USAF flying unit, tracing an unbroken lineage to the 1st Aero Squadron,…

“M4 Goes Here.”

Well, I conned the DJ at my 8th-grade dance to play Catherine Wheel. Props to him, he let the whole song play through (“Little Muscle”).

Today’s my Monday, so I really needed that!

A few dozen HARMs will take care of those nasty Russkies!

This is not gonna end well ...

“Plutonium! You mean, this thing is nuclear?!”

1961 Boeing B-52H Stratofortress, S/N 61-0035 (C/N 464462). On active service with USAF 23rd “Bomber Barons” Bomb Squadron, 5th Bomb Wing, Minot AFB, N.D. Forward deployed at Andersen AFB, Guam. Tail code “MT” (MinoT). Distinctive Unit Identifier: a red stripe with gold piping, inscribed “Barons” thereon.

“Red Leader, this is Gold Leader. We’re starting for the target shaft, now.”

You beautiful, beautiful bastard. +∞

The Mighty Pratt & Whitney J-58. Brutish beauty.

Yep, the infamous “howler” AG-330 start cart! Vroom, vroom!

The iconic 1980 movie, The Final Countdown, featured just such an emergency arrest:

I’ve shared one of my favorite stories from Maj. Brian Shul (USAF, Ret.), who flew the “Sled” and shared his experiences in the now out-of-print (and insanely expensive) autobiography, Sled Driver: