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Switching gears now from airplanes to airlines, we have a commentary on low-cost Irish carrier RyanAir from a prominent German government official….

eeeeeeyyyyyyaaaahhhhh....Kenny Roberts. Gotcha.

I am looking for angled valve stems that will fit on an inner tube Schraeder valve (the usual kind found on cars and bikes). My dear old Gretel is a 1983 BMW R100RS and she still uses inner tubes - and the spacing of the cast wheel "spokes" is very tight for most air chucks. Does anyone have a...

The Tail is a lovely piece of road but for all the legends and fame, it is only about 12 miles long. If you ride it like Kenny Roberts or Mike Hailwood, you'll be done in about 15-18 minutes and if you ride a little more sane, you will take about 24-30 minutes. The other thing to note is that...

Oh yes - this machine is not for under-endowed tangerine-tinged whinging pussies. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUMF30Tig93RKvazF2lM7ofP2alYlIb_B&si=AKNLWd1Nfuqxn9YK Totally aside from the massive size and ferocious appearance of the aircraft, the Napier Sabre that powered it was a he...

Ahhhh.....the pugnacious and thoroughly frightening Hawker Typhoon. Definitely, not for the faint of heart. Think of it as the "Stormy Daniels" version of the Hawker Hurricane... There is a guy in BC who is building a full-size Typhoon in metal - from the original drawings from scratch...to...

Very cool - I like the Mariner too! ...one truism I have read about flying boats: a wrench dropped, is a wrench lost...

Oh wow - it sure looks like that airplane is moving under its own power. I sure hope they did a good "FOD-walk" prior to the parade.....

What remarkable airplanes - the XB-35 and the YB-49.... I wonder how many people would know the correct answer to the question: Name the USAF aircraft that were powered by 8 jet engines? heheheheee

Yeah....women. Like you, I have often noticed that they do have an odd-ball sense of humour.

....now THAT would certainly spill the tea of the self-loading cargo inside....

In the fall of 1994 I was teaching as a guest professor at Loyal Marymount Univ. in Los Angeles (wow - what a place!) and one day in November, the Dean's EA brought the earthquake procedures memo for me to read to my first year Engineering Drawing class. So, I carefully read this one-pager...

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Gary: I'd suggest checking on the NHTSA website - and see if the US Govt has done any investigations and / or recieved a large number of complaints. Pete

There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. People often asked us if, because of this fact, it was fun to fly the jet. Fun would not be the first word I would use to describe flying this...

Separated at birth....

Absolutely - please do come up here Jim! Free acommodations at the Harrow Hilton! Pete

Nooooooooooo…..say it ain’t so DE!

Join the club Rob....

Yeah - @Downeaster should pick this one up and re-join the good guys and their cool bikes!