Now THAT’S an 18th century warship!

This had better not fuck with my commute...

I so, so happy that someone decided to spring for the bait on this one.

I love the Tuscan 2, but it went from being “beautiful but weird” to plain old “beautiful”.

Yup, I couldn’t find any good pictures of iridescent ones in my 5-second GIS hunt.

The TVR Tuscan. Between the insectoid headlights, bizarre details and the factory color-shifting paint, it was downright Giger-esque. It resembled what might have sprung out had the Xenomorph chosen to use an E-type for its host.

The closest thing to the TARDIS to ever roll around on 4 wheels...

The most underrated car Aston ever built. So anachronistically overwrought and yet it still came out half baked. But it worked, oh god did it work.

I started with the Fiat, quickly upgraded to the Celica, and spent so much time building that car into something that took me more than 3/4 through the game. I actually felt sad when I had to upgrade to the Supra to start winning the last races in the docks/industrial part of town.

Don’t forget that fantastic sandbox environment, at a time when that was still pretty special to see in a game.

What a fantastic video, great post!

Oxcart was a single-seater, the blackbird and the YF-12 had crews of 2. Also, the A-12 has a pointier nose with less-defined chines, whereas the SR-71’s nose was broader and more rounded.

It’s worse than that, we have a country that’s ~75-90% idiots that functions off of the intellectual and economic accomplishments of the remaining 10-25%.

You could say that about a lot of things in this country.

I’d honestly flip them. Sovereign debt, especially with an economic/political/military power on the level of the USA, is essentially uncollectible. We aren’t Greece, and if China were to try and take us to task for our debt, it would be an act of war.

You’re partly correct!

That's not as far off as it sounds...

I was talking about an internal data bus. At the end of the day "sensor/data fusion" really just means that there's a central computer that processes all of the various incoming data from the various subsystems and curates what the pilot actually sees from all of the raw feeds.

Go with a "plug and play" approach to the specific avionic subsystems, aiming for a shared information bus/communications protocol between different sensors. I.e, all IRSTs communicate using the same protocol, whether the uber-IRST on thethe fleet-defemse Super Tomcat or the less capable one on the USAF/USN "jsf". The…

And yet the mechanical compromises from trying to adapt one airframe to multiple roles ends up creating a needlessly bloated aircraft/product with an equally bloated budget, and you end up producing far fewer of them than you planned to.