I worked installing tires as a kid a long time ago— a plug isn’t a safe permanent fix, since it can degrade and fail over time, releaking. A plug+patch combo, installed by removing the tire and pulling the plug part through the hole, and adhering the patch to the inner tire wall, is the only safe permanent repair.…
Dude, what the hell is your problem? Leave this guy alone.
I don’t get it.
So... this technology renders the vehicle safe to drive behind Volkswagens?
No way, the doors are essential. Conventional doors would have to be a mile wide to create this much room for getting in and out, sliding doors would automatically brand this thing as a minivan and “unsexy.”
Perhaps they also pulled him over for fitting ugly after market wheels on an F40
At the end of the day by any measure we have the most hardware by an enormous multiple over the next largest military. If the absolute unthinkable were to happen... The national defense comes first and hence nationally we have all of that material for our use. One really obvious metric: aircraft carriers. We have a…
That’s probably payback for what the Su-25s did to the Il-76s back in Feburary.
I need this shirt.
Indeed. And it takes a lot of spreadsheets to figure out what goes into the Powerpoint decks that convince the program managers to obligate the budget so the engineers can design and the techs can build something the pilot can fly.
Preferably in a 4g negative dive with a range of 2 meters while inverted.
Now that’s what I call downforce.
1965 Buick Riviera
GM LeSabre Concept
Why choose one... Someone actually attempted to catalog all know pop up headlights...
The AAA guys get confused pretty easily. (I kid)
The Merlin saved the P-51, but the fundamentals were there; good wing, slick airplane. The -D’s bubble canopy did the rest. The Air Defense Diesel was a victim of another piece of bureaucratic wisdom, “guns are obsolete”. Once it got a gun and good radar it became a fearsome, ugly thing instead of a ridiculous, ugly…
Starfighter at least was fast. F-35? Not so much.
