Hauling just mattresses is child’s play.

In that mud nobody would be able to see you after 15 minutes. They were seriously at risk of adding more equipment to the grave. Every flag officer on post with access to a helicopter was out for a look. A royal clusterfuck.

The tracks were covered when the “recovery” started, they gave up when the driver’s hatch filled with mud. Almost lost a backhoe too.

Give me a shovel, a case of Red Bull and a bill of sale and I’ll have that fuckin’ tank out in 24 hours.

I saw, with my own eyeballs, an M60A1 tank get covered over and buried at Fort Hood because two M88 Tank retrievers and two bulldozers couldn’t get it out. Got written off as destroyed in training.

Turbo Vortec 4200 Inline-Six – Horsepower!

With the crane attachment, I’ve finally found the perfect way to get my Aston Martin Vulcan to those hard to reach track days. 

GM should have kept developing and refining the Atlas series of engines, but instead, they just killed the whole line when they stopped making the Trailblazer/Envoy/Ascender and the 1st-gen Colorado/Canyon/290/370. My 2008 Colorado has the 3.7L 5-cylinder in it, and it’s been a fantastic engine for the decade that…

Fun fact is that the vast majority of a jet’s propulsion is from the fan at the front and not the hot section. It is basically a ducted propeller. The concept of contra rotating propellers was explored by McDonnel Douglas in the 90's with the UHB demonstrator.

In the airliner version, in the early days they had a reputation for throwing prop blades, so the “in the know” passengers would NEVER take a set in the rows adjacent to this huge, noisy, deliciously counter-rotating blades.

To this day, Mike Pence is kept up at night with thoughts of Russia Bears penetrating America’s vulnerable back door.

Looking for the sticker of Calvin pissing on an Ilyushin. 

I don’t have anything to say, other than the Tu-95 Bear is awesome

No, it was just a different approach, where you vapourised the pedestrian *before* impact, thereby side-stepping the legal definition of a collision.

Flew when parked.

“That’s what your mother said, Trebek”

Apparently Packard experimented with a functional radar system in the mid 50s that would apply the brakes, but it couldn’t distinguish between oncoming cars, stop signs, hills, or any piece of debris that drifted in front of the car, so that was quickly abandoned.

But, could it detect fire trucks, a known stealthy-and-hard-to-see-obstacle, especially when stopped directly ahead of you, in your lane, with the lights on and guys in bright yellow jackets moving around it? Devilishly hard to see, those fire engines are.