I was under the impression that this system proved difficult and unreliable and they switched back to old fashioned pneumatic pistons. Read more

It’s impossible to switch back to using steam. The entire ship is designed to use EMALS. There’s EMALS equipment and cabling all over the ship, and none of the equipment it would need to use steam catapults. Switching back to steam would require a complete retrofit. President Trump demanded that they switch back to… Read more

This sucks.  I mean, technically it doesn’t suck, but it’s definitely shitty.   Read more

There’s still issues, but the Ford’s EMALS was cleared for use by all aircraft in February. Read more

Worst case scenario to cut down on the budget...

Nationally, testing for Coronavirus is still hard to come by, leading experts to suspect the number of cases in the U.S. is far higher than our current count of more than 35,000 people. Read more

“Every little bit helps,” which is true but some people can afford to make their little bits a bit less little and thus help a lot more than those of us whose little bits will never be big. Read more

Someday somebody will have to explain to me why using corporate cash to buy stock at the peak of its value is “doing right by the shareholders.” It’s not a wise long-term move, even if it’s that particular company’s own stock. Read more

While what they did wasn’t legally wrong it was still a bonehead move. They don’t say what the current cash reserves are though so maybe it wasn’t as bad as they report. They very well could be offsetting a lot of money and those 50 billions are the leftover although that seems suspect as even in airlines 50 billion… Read more

This is where a sane system would require some sort of statutory reserve plan in exchange for the bailout.  Read more

Neutral: On the one hand, air travel is usually vital to national infrastructure, and American airlines have competed with airlines propped up by the states they service for way too long. On the other hand, if you mismanage yourself this hard, the idea of capitalism is that you fail and anything that still works is… Read more

we’ve already bailed them out with crushed flights, baggage fees, $12 dollar shitty snacks and ridiculous fares. Having flown Ryan in Europe I feel extremely cheated by our domestic airlines, it’s a cattle car both ways but at least on Ryan I’m paying steerage prices for steerage class, Bailouts my ass.  Read more

Exactly. Realize that every inch of the USA is owned by someone and you are not allowed on said inch of land unless the owner grants you permission. Read more

I read the article and like a few others went “what the hell?! The whole article answer is google maps?” The video actually provides a recommended park in his area (ish, 2.5 hours isn’t that big of a deal tho). Glad I watched the video to prove there was more to this post... Read more

ORV locations are like hunting spots. Sure, there is public land anyone can go on but those aren’t the best spots. The real honey holes are places that you find about by word of mouth. Read more

“ there was a bounty of old gas, logging, and mine road that would turn into all day adventures.” Read more

Mmmmm, such fun memories of the C7 Corvette rendering... Read more

Michael, my life is now in complete shambles. If only I’d been able to read about this absurd but neat car of no actual consequence to the universe 2 hours earlier, none of this would have happened. I hope you’re happy. Read more

Yep... with $999,999.95 in destination charges.... Read more

If you truly want to blow my mind, tell me it’s coming to a dealer near me starting at $39,900.  Read more