Last of a breed?

Cool narrated air-show video of a F-22 doing its thing. [via] Given the rising costs of these development programs and the explosion of UAV's, I wonder how many more manned fighter jets there will be?

Excuse me while I go buy a lotto ticket or three

The timing should just work out...

Check out the F-22 thrust vectoring at the end...

Nuts and bolts

I've really enjoyed Dan Edmunds's posts on car and truck suspensions.  They are the raw bits of gear head gnarliness.  Check out the new Ford SVT Raptor, which is an absolute monster - as you'll see at the end, those tires & wheels weigh in at nearly a hundred pounds each. Yikes.  If citified driving is more your style, take a look at the BMW M3,  Nissan GT-R,  Dodge Challenger R/T (with Nivomats!), Ford Focus SES, or the Hyundai Genesis Coupe.

I've also picked up a copy of Allan Staniforth's Competition Car Suspension, and soon I'll be able to spot an improperly adjusted coil-over damper at fifty paces.  This is partly motivated by curiosity and partly because I'd like to upgrade the springs and dampers on my own car, which lists sharply to the leeward in a curve and understears like there's no tommorrow, and not achieve the usual perversion of spending a lot of money to look-fast-but-drive-worse-and-slower aftermarket dumbness.

I have been wearing this out