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  1. So I show up and some prissy Air Force guy takes my space. WTF?!
  2. This is the guy that leaves the Taco Bell worker blinking while he rolls the R to order a burrrrrrito. I vould like ze Nachose Belgrrrrandeee. *facepalm*
  3. More engines is better, but a helicopter glides just fine. It's called autorotation. The smaller the helicopter, the more survivable a full auto' would be. Jet Rangers autorotate like a champ! Unless the transmission shits and the wings stop. There's only one transmission, lol.
  4. I've done the epoxy in the garages of two homes to date and I encountered one significant problem. The last one was built in 2012 and it is still strong -- just needs to be kept clean. I've spilled all sorts of stuff on it too. The problem seems to be when, if ever, a car steers on the epoxy. Straight in and straight out, it still looks great after six years. Where there was a car that was turning in order to get out and follow the driveway, it chewed up the epoxy, starting almost immediately (it wasn't me, btw). Any steering on the surface is super-bad. The first job I did had a clear coat, and it looked good for about two years. But unfortunately the clear yellowed in spots and was sorta' ruined once a chip or something allowed moisture to start penetrating it. That was circa 2008, so I'm sure clear coats have improved since then. I skipped the clear on the next job and it's been stellar. My personal opinion is that the darker colors show dirt and damage much more than the lighter colors...even white! In aviation, I see a lot of white hangar floors that actually stand up pretty well, unless you have a nose gear pivoting or a jack stand chewing them up. If Allan's lifts budge a little, I bet over time, they might chew into the epoxy, but I'd be willing to bet some kind of thin pad of some kind could minimize the damage (since the Direct Lifts can be temporarily lifted and readjusted or taxied around on casters). If I use a jack stand, I put it on a piece of cardboard or something. But honestly, you can't expect to bang floor jacks around and drop hammers all over the place and expect it to survive. If you want a garage you can walk into in your socks, you still need to treat it as such.
  5. Revival! Finally took some pics of the 1/18 Diablo I modified awhile back. Out of production, they originally came in either silver or metallic orange (wtf?) from AutoArt, so I painted this one in classic Diablo Rosso from the day and customized the interior. I did another one with the camel interior. These are complete disassembly, repaint, and reassembly jobs.
  6. Porter, you crack me up every time. Can't two people who want to fight each other just be left alone? Did we really need more crashers at the testosterone party?
  7. I don't know any exotic owner who would be surprised with people breaking out the cell phone cameras, parked or not. Ordering the valet to be photo security guards doesn't sound like a realistic occurrence...something was lost in translation here. At ~50mph cruising along, I had a guy come completely out of his driver-side window to his belt line to take a picture of the Lambo with a 10" tablet while his girlfriend leaned over to do the steering. I guess Darwin was busy somewhere else that day.
  8. Awesome! So glad you're loving it...I would too! I knew of some old techs recommending many years ago with Countach and Diablo to crank up in neutral without depressing the clutch to go easy on the throwout bearing. Of course I've seen people start Diablos both ways (clutch in, and clutch out/N). Do you have any ideas otherwise?
  9. Holy morons, Batman. Unbearable in her inability to connect listening with thinking. I almost feel sorry for her to have engaged with him...so intellectually and academically outclassed. She simply shined her ass looking for such simple answers to complex problems at every turn. She simply didn't have the brain bytes to follow anything he was saying or understand how such an academic or clinician could possibly arrive at an educated opinion not rooted in sensational emotion. So typical of personalities attracted to journalism, perfectly willing to believe the next headline as gospel or the next vague statistic and fight harder to be right than for the right answer. The interview was like simultaneously reading a scientific journal and the National Enquirer side by side.
  10. I love Deadpool, but I can't take a 10yo to see it. Infinity War had some serious weak areas and I think that it was a sign that we've reached peak Marvel. I'm sure the next few Marvel flicks will still be entertaining, but fatigue is a good word to describe what is setting in now. Disney is a machine rather than a cathedral of creativity, so we'd best recalibrate our expectations for what they produce. Star Wars is too far gone, still profitable, but no longer a self-sustaining fire of inspiration among children which says a lot. But Deadpool is a great example of what can be done if audiences demand it.
  11. I think it's sales results are a reflection of Abrams' and Johnson's failures, wearing out buyers along with showing up in Deadpool's wake. The movie itself works and audiences are still rating it highly. At this point in Last Jedi's release, a lot of people were already screaming and Rotten Tomatoes was breaking new-low records. If Disney is going to keep making this train longer, we just need to accept the fact that "epic" is never going to happen again. Hell, even the Marvel machine is starting to suffer with the inability to manufacture "epic."
  12. Ron Howard, A+. If Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover were tasked with impersonating Harrison Ford and Billy Williams, they did a great job. This was a movie about people. Not galactic scale struggles, overarching principles, or big picture problem solving. The characters were up close and personal. They let the actors shine and the plot twists weren't predictable. My only critique is that they made Solo a product of the street thug underground, which is about all the depth we can expect from Disney. In the OT, it was semi-obvious that he was an educated straight cookie gone rogue...burned out and only in it for the money because that's all life had to offer anymore. As for J. J. Abrams and Rian Johnson, F-. Get these men away from Star Wars as quickly as possible. These side stories are all that's keeping the property afloat. The Kenobi story sneak peeks are already looking promising.
  13. Definitely poster-worthy images. Awesome.
  14. There are lots of mom and pop museums and smaller organizations all over the country with interesting stuff, but if I had to rank my top 5 aviation museums I'd put it like this, 1. National Museum of the Air Force (this thread) Dayton, Ohio. The size and scope is unmatched. LOTS of stuff inside a massive multi-part facility broken into eras. A ton of stuff outside, too big to fit inside in outstanding condition (that's hard to do). Additional annexes are on the base for experimental aircraft and former presidential aircraft. 2. Udvar-Hazy Center (Dulles annex of the Smithsonian), Chantilly, Virginia. The variety is incredible and is a perfectly focused history of flight in top quality presentation. A solid mix of new, old, novel, and common with a dash of foreign, it's the tits. 3. National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, Florida. An unbroken history in every detail of Naval air presented in top form of the machines, the history, and the culture. 4. Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, Washington, D.C. It's got it all, but is showing its age...just a solid, must see aerospace foundation. 5. Museum of Flight, Tukwila (Seattle), Washington. Outside the Boeing plant, also a top quality museum, smaller than the Smithsonian, but stays in the running with novel, high quality exhibits.
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