me: idk what to do while sick
youtube: do you want to watch an hour long professionally animated deep dive into explaining what makes the lockheed sr-71 blackbird so cool
me: wellllllllll shucks i reckon i could be inclined
I swear I love the SR-71 so much and it's only made cooler because they made it in a cave with a box of scraps. I really need to get my shop open so I can post up tribute items, retvrn to the wireframe blackbird apparel. concorde would be lovely as well
I have a soft spot for it as well. My family is big into aviation, and we went to see the “Bye Bye Blackbird” exhibit when they finally completely phased it out.
Planes were a big thing for us. I even went to aviation camp! But that got REALLY militaristic really fast 😬
Now I'm trying to think of your callsign & what you'd pilot, hypothetically.
I'm thinking a Chinook and your callsign could be Miracle. Alternatively, maybe the Viggen, as those are apparently a lot of fun to fly. Yeah.. ace pilot Mara "Miracle" Wilson.
*shivers*
Yeah, although it uses a Volvo engine. Apparently, it's just the most fun to fly for things like canyon runs & other activities that require tight maneuvering at high speed.
You do realize that the VW Beetle could be fitted with a Porsche engine, right?
At one time some German police would use them on the Autobahn as a vehicle for high speed pursuits.
Even the Volvo 850 could be outfitted with a turbo-charged engine. It was the turbo station wagon.
When I was growing up, we had a Dodge pick-up with a Ford-branded air conditioner installed under the dash. I never could make sense of how that happened.
Companies like Bosch just make parts for other companies' cars. It's possible that the Ford AC unit was versatile enough to be used in multiple non-Ford Motor Company brands.
Yep. Apparently, back in the 1960s, most car air conditioning was aftermarket. Poking around a bit, I think the Ford unit was actually a rebranded third-party aftermarket AC.
