The fact you have a gf helping you means you should buy one. Some of my friends sold their nice cars because of their wives/gf/kids. They don't look happy to me. =P

 

like buying a horse and never taking it out of the stable

 

Those become barn finds in a few decades.

 

well played

 

A Falcon business jet encountering severe turbulence somewhere over South America actually had fatalities in the cabin from a few pax heads hitting the cabin ceiling.

"This shows that the widebody was out of its pilots’ control for some 33s, during which time it lost 4,400ft."
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I've seen 10,000+fpm (down) but I guess going from level flight to 4,400 lower in 33 seconds, even if the average is 8800fpm, the peak was probably a helluvalot more

edit: Its a good thing the fly-by-wire protected the plane within the approved flight envelope. I'm going to guess the Airbus has a load limit of +3.Xish / -0.0G's. Shoving the stick forward in a fly-by-wire airplane would just tell the airplane to pitch down at a rate that would take it to, but not beyond, its limit (hence the weightless copilot).

Don't do that in a plane with mechanical flight controls! Shove the yoke forward in cruise in our Learjet, and everything would briefly hit the ceiling until the tail, and immediately after the wings, departed the airframe.

"departed the airframe" is fancy engineer for "**** fell off"

edit edit: But I guess that's why we have a real, full-size yoke in the middle of the panel, and not a thrustmaster joystick from best buy bolted to the arm rest and plugged into the panel's USB port as an afterthought because, (unfortunately in the eyes of Airbus) pilots still have to participate in flying.

edit edit edit: I am wine-wasted on the beach in Belize w/ Mrs. Greyout, who was an invited passenger on this trip. It's a tough job but someones gotta do it

edit edit edit edit: I just realized the point I was trying to make above ^ was the whole point of the article I just tried to read.

Sorry. Dinner time, back to the drinking and 'work'

 

When I lamented to Mrs. Greyout that I was depressed walking past my first S2000 in pieces, she was the one that suggested buying a second one and not taking it apart

<3

 

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San marino 88 is on. Last lap doe. Senna's first win for McLaren

 

Greyout, you should do a vlog or something. Get a big subscription base and a buttload of views and get that ad revenue.

 

And just saw Vettel crashed today ending Ferrari's test for the day. Vettel crash ends wet tire test running

 

I fixed the stream! yay!

Monaco 88 starting right meow. Spoiler: Prost wins and Senna walks home...

Would buy house first, then buy silly Honda car.

When buying silly Honda car, white with red guts is the only way forward.

 

Disparos!

 

The phrase "Thinking like a champion" comes to mind

 

Murry Walker just said despite the McLarens pushing each other for fastest lap there is no risk for either of them to crash out because they are both so experienced.



Dat MP4/4 doe

 

the spacex guys call that Rapid Unplanned Disassembly

 

I would think that term would be reserved for their explosions

 

Messico!

The fearsome Peraltada

Edit: Observation, it's amazing how the drivers appear to be sitting on the cars instead of in the cars in '88 lol. It's almost Mario Kart esq

 

i don't think you'd be able to tell much difference as a passenger.

 

Walker isn't that good of an announcer. Nostalgia got people thinking he was better than he was.

That said, he basically willed Senna's crash with the commentator's curse. Whole damn race saying how far ahead Senna was. Lock it up. Done deal. etc etc.

Finally, Prost is a bad ***. I don't think I ever watched him race, but the dude was GOAT for a while there.

 

I do like Hunt doe some of his descriptions are quite colorful. Looking forward to Monaco '89 when he says bullshit to Arnoux's comment about NA cars not suiting his style...

 

Walker just talking about a chap that designed the Arrows A10. Some bloke named Ross Brawn. Wonder whatever became of him. We know Arrows eventually went tango uniform...

 

I bet sucks.

 

I think a lot of people like Murray because he gets excited and tongue tied.

As for Prost, if all he needs is an inch to win, he'll win by an inch. Senna supposedly like to win by the biggest margin possible just so he could demoralize the opposition. (from what I've read about those two).

 

And Gerhard Berger is quite the prankster from what I've read.

 

Senna's passport photo gag was hilarious

 

I'm a very lucky man for sure. She spoils me

He's got ya there falcon. And I do have a barn......

Thanks Tim, but este fixed it with his magical interweb powers yesterday. It's like you can see into my soul este...white with red guts has been my dream s2k since 1999