Charles Kaman also reworked how seeing-eye dogs are trained. Dude was a true polymath. Read more

We have been running a bit behind on the tips basket lately. Read more

It's NY Times style, and a few others follow it. Read more

Actually when an acronym is longer than four letters, it can take title case instead of all caps, especially if its familiar to most readers. Read more

Like in the 2nd paragraph, where we link to Reddit? Read more

This is the problem: Unlike cars, there's a fairly small pool of airliner images that we can publish with the appropriate copyright clearances. Given another day or two, we probably could have come up with the 767-300 actually used on the route in the right Delta livery. Because this was something we wanted to post… Read more

Sorry Gimmi. Didn't mean to cause undue emotional stress. :) Read more

I am always skeptical, but he does have the flight right and the detail that other planes were being diverted to U.S. bases (as our other first-hand account noted). The pro pilots who've looked this over have not found any evidence of sheer fakery as well. As soon as I hear from Delta, I'll update. Read more

You're right - its exactly because of shoulder-belt positioning. NHTSA could provide adjustable attachment points, but phasing in that change would take years and do nothing for the 100+million vehicles on the road that don't have it. (There'd also be exemptions, I'm sure, for certain vehicles). Read more

With a lot of kids. Read more

There's only one model upcoming that has that: the Tesla Model S. Read more

Guarantee that if the House cameras were allowed to pan to the reporters' gallery above the speakers' chair it would have been well-attended. Read more

They do if they're flying as close as the shots we saw yesterday; the KMAX can hover steadily at much higher altitudes. The issue would likely be the connections and placement of the remote pilots. Read more

Nibbles went on a hella bender today, to the point we had problems we couldn't fix for a couple of hours. We're back on track. Read more

OK, Skink — we get it, you really don't like the Volt. Read more

As someone who used to do the same thing at the Freep — the majority of the readers at both papers still get their stories on print, and when you're writing in the width of a newspaper column, any paragraph longer than a couple of sentences seems huge. Short paras keep a better flow in print, even though it looks… Read more

like a boss. Read more

It is always a great day in America. Read more

Only Rutledge had the beard to pull off the number joke. Read more

Ah, I see the confusion. Leclair followed Williams to get her plates. My apologies. Read more