ALL small single-engine airplanes have cramped interiors. If you think this is bad you should see the inside of an Ercoupe.

Drones aren’t magic.

If a Gawker article asks a question, the answer s almost always ‘no’.

I speak from experience when I say that it’s impossible to be at the controls of a military aircraft flying on the taxpayer’s dime and not showboat it at least once.

Same thing happened at a former local track near where I live. Fireball Speedway was only a 1/4 mile paved oval, but it had go kart, Bandalero, and Legends classes so the cost threshold of getting on track was relatively low and it was only a few miles away from where I live. A few years after it opened a particularly…

Yes, the difference here is that there is no one land developer leading the charge to shut down the track. However, the motivations of those that are complaining remain the same. Many of them are New Yorkers who bought some idyllic property in the Connecticut countryside at a bargain because it was within earshot of…

At least he didn’t say it was Wilmington, Delaware.

Funny you should mention that, because people do that with airports all the time. You may think its crazy, but there’s a simple reason for it: good old fashioned greed. Not necessarily greed on the part of the homeowner, mind you, but greed on the part of the person who sold them the land in the first place. It’s a…

You need 3 for a 3D plot and just because a politician wants to block the sale of something doesn’t mean they know any more than you or I about it.

1st Gear: Pot Meet Kettle

It’s not a passive system. It relies on a ground transmitter at point A to broadcast a pulse at a specific time and a receiver at point B that knows the exact time that the pulse was sent. Stealth aircraft work by not bouncing radar energy back at the transmitter, but that energy doesn’t simply disappear, it just goes…

My bad, it took 3 days of actual air combat. Plus they had help. And how many did they shoot down after the USAF changed their tactics up slightly?

It took them months to get that one lucky shot. All a stealth aircraft would need to do to avoid such a fate is to use different infil and exfil routes and vary the times up a bit.

It might lessen deaths a bit, but not nearly as much as the technology evangelicals are making it out to be. Honestly, it will probably be about the same as if we actually spent the right amount of time and money on drivers training and periodic re-training.

You need three transmitters and three separate receiver units (what SEAD would refer to as a “target rich environment”) in order to get 3D positional data. It only works if a stealth aircraft bumbles their way right into the middle of the three. If an aircraft goes around the outside of them, the whole system is…

A) Normal cars have been made somewhat idiot resistant over the years, autonomous cars have not, and B) the most important part of the equation, the decision making process, still falls on them. Joe and Jane Snuffy know how to drive a car because they’ve been doing it for years and they received some formal training…

The childish partisan behavior in Raleigh is beyond annoying. Don’t even get me started on the whole film incentives thing.

Up to this point, Google’s driverless cars have been driven by professionals who understand the AI’s logic programming in great detail and are monitoring everything that the computer does when it has control. What happens when you hand the keys to Joe and Jane Snuffy who don’t know shit about computers and don’t care…

Computing technology has advanced so rapidly that we can actually invoke Clarke’s third law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. Only a handful of people on this planet have taken the time to understand how computers actually work at a fundamental level which leads people to…

This kind of in-depth investigative journalism is why I keep coming back to Jalopnik.