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Perfectly nice little car and it's about time they let John Hennessey dump some of his magic goodies under the hood.

The LFA reminds me of a female opera singer .... voice like an angel, body like the Graf Zeppelin.

Perhaps, like me, he mutes all commercials and goes to take a leak?

Okay, okay ... I'll get the ball rolling by buying one wheel, if three others will kick in for the remaining corners ... then, naturally, we'll need a Maybach donor.

Yep ... that and that the Rapier had a cranked delta wing similar to the Concorde, fixed dropped wing tips, a bit like the Valkyrie (but the XB70 tips were movable, at least on the second prototype), and was projected to be faster. However, the Arrow was indeed innovative in many ways and way ahead of its time. Truly

You took the words right out of my mouth, Huffy.

Backing up sucked in great gooey gobs .... and then there was that annoying 'beep beep beep' when reverse was selected.

Way to go, blabber mouth ... I guess this isn't a secret anymore! :)

The F16 won that fracas, which wasn't necessarily a bad thing, BUT the F20 was a hell of a good performer with many of the same flight characteristics of the F16 and at a much lower cost. This lesson was apparently never learned. See F35 debacle.

That was a bitchin' idea ... mount 4 aging helos to an erector set suspended below a gas bag. (or 2/3rd's of the helos, as the tail and tail rotors were removed) Amazing what you can assemble from scrap yard parts, but it did NOT end well.

Probably would have been more successful if it had just a few more wings. From this photo, it looks like this array of wings was mounted on the Staten Island Ferry.

.. on an alleged 'taxi run' ... old Howard was a scheming bastard.

lol ... Indeed, it was pretty much a flying Zodiac. Makes me wonder if it came with an inner tube patch kit.

It was a victim of politics. Large and wickedly fast for its time. In the late 50's, North American had one in development called the F-108 Rapier, which in my opinion, had some similarities to the Arrow. The Rapier would have been a large Mach3+ interceptor, but bowed to the changing priorities of that era, to

"If you're brave enough to put your car or bike on the 'Ring, no one can shit on you." No arguments from me, mate. The perfectly stacked Armco barriers will tear your car up when you run out of talent, but it still looks like a blast for those intrepid souls looking for a major adrenalin surge.

'I'm looking for something with some presence, some sense of occasion' .... Ah .... presence as in the thrill you get walking into a room full of your closest buds and budettes, wearing your underpants over your chinos? Check please!

Damned skippy, reggie ... but in this day and age, if you can't carry a note in a beach bag, you rap ... or if your voice is like a swamp frog, you autotune it until several words from whatever it is you're attempting to bellow, are recognizable to your audience.

I'm never surprised by these antics. This is what the NFL has become ... a non-stop parade of self aggrandizing tools who continue to find new ways of relocating to the injured reserve list. Never mind that your own team is getting embarrassingly pummeled .... it's all about you, Zeke.

'Perhaps MLB should ensure the person they are hiring to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" knows the words?' ..... never happen, that would be a break in tradition.

As they should, mate ... with global IQ's in free fall, the time has come to begin removing these mouth breathers from society.