If you weigh more, the plane has to burn more fuel to keep you in the air. It’s basic physics. Passengers still comprise the biggest percentage of an airliner’s payload, and as average weights and waistlines have ballooned in this country, airliners today have to burm more fuel per passenger to stay aloft.

It’s good to see a shoutout to the rumored Boscombe down incident. If it did in fact happen, it offers a fascinating glimpse of the world of deep black operations of those “top tier” assets.

Dem clamshells could stop those things on a dime. I remember riding Lan and Ladeco -200’s in the South of Chile 15 years ago, landing on runways which were barely the size of your average municipal cessna strip.

Yeah, that and all the videos of Giselle cucking with a gross, bearded DiCaprio while Tom relives his crush on Jack Dawson.

“THEY DID IT!! THOSE BASTARDS AT MOSSAD REALLY DID IT!!!”

Their debut album is one of those through-listens that, for me, always leaves me feeling really down about how the post-Napster destruction of record sales and the subsequent fragmentation of the music industry has utterly destroyed modern rock.

I have read hints that the LRS-B contract is more or less a done deal for the Lockheed/Boeing team, but that the two entrants were different enough (think YF-16 vs YF-17, or the B-47 vs the YB-49) that there is a strong likelihood that the NG design, which supposedly emphasized extreme low observability via some…

I love those pieces on your old site.

A magnificent machine that rectified most, if not all of the space shuttle’s major flaws. Too bad its development bankrupted the entire USSR in the process.

I’m curious Tyler about what your take is on the recurring rumor (myth?) that the reason why the USAF and by proxy the NRO walked away from the billions they invested in the Shuttle/SLC-6 combo without so much as a whimper was because there was another, highly classified asset in the pipeline that might have…

I’m curious Tyler about what your take is on the recurring rumor (myth?) that the reason why the USAF and by proxy the NRO walked away from the billions they invested in the Shuttle/SLC-6 combo without so much as a whimper was because there was another, highly classified asset in the pipeline that might have…

Thanks for the lelz

Likely not, but its big brother probably is.

The Rock is turning into the second coming of 80’s Arnie, with his ability to seamlessly play the “everyman who happens to look like Mr. Olympia” role to a T.

The problem is that the language and tactics used to argue the 3rd wave issues such as trans rights, issues of rape and consent, etc are still the same holdovers from the 2nd wavers, the gay rights movement and the civil rights movement.

It’s when your movement stops being a rational one, based off of pragmatism and self-criticism, and starts becoming a religion, fanaticism based on dogma rather than discourse.

This song popped into my head yesterday, for the first time in almost a decade.

It’s a bit of a shame, actually, because to fit the Cassin Young in they had to cut up the SS Nobska, the last coastal steamer left.

Now THAT’S an 18th century warship!

This had better not fuck with my commute...