Unabashed Gearhead Gnarlyness

Flatheads with Cooder

The New York Times is running a beautiful multimedia piece combining the music of Ry Cooder with photos of the car run by our gnarly brethren over at The Old Crow Speed Shop.  Their blog has one of the best titles I've every run across for this subject area: Automotive addictions and general tomfoolery

Warning!  Alert!  Massive time sinks ahead.  Permission granted to use these as a safe haven from the pressures of socializing at the Thanksgiving Feast.  Have a good one.

Performance Envelopes

Understanding your performance envelope... or how to land a 757 at Toncontin Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Thank goodness for modern engineering.  Using mathematics to predict real-world behaviors, and then testing the hell out of stuff to make sure what works in theory also works in practice.  Theory and practice, thinking and building, it all comes together in these miraculous machines.

Alain de Cadenet on the gnarlyness of the Merlin-engined Spitfire

Limbo Limbo, Cathay Pacific...

Hey sure, let's buzz the airfield.  No problem! 

Check out the video here.

But.

We all know these things don't even count unless you barrel-roll the plane:

Sheesh.  Come on!  Those who don't know their history are doomed never to repeat it.

Many thanks to our strategic associates at Telstar Logistics for notification of this sub-par buzzing.