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The cockpit of an Airbus A380

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 at 11:28 pm


Rich Acuff’s Palo Alto Airport KPAO page

Saturday, December 8th, 2007 at 10:24 am


World’s First A380 Flight

Sunday, November 18th, 2007 at 4:38 pm

Sydney to Singapore

Doing what Detroit says is impossible

Sunday, November 18th, 2007 at 4:37 pm


Serious carriage

Thursday, November 9th, 2006 at 9:38 pm

[via metachat]

Fill ‘Er Up

Friday, August 19th, 2005 at 9:38 am

At the gas pump these days, I tend to balk at the $35 bill when filling up the tank of my old A4. We are pushing $3 for premium up here in NorCal. After looking at the SUV Fill Up Index, there’ll be “no more whining from me”:http://themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com/2005/08/california-suv-fill-up-index.html. Oh, I forgot to add: Suckas!
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Tweel-dee Tweel-del dub

Saturday, February 19th, 2005 at 10:02 am

Michelin introduces the “tweel(Michelin Tweel)”:http://www.gizmag.com/go/3603/.
_{line-height:1em}Michelin showcased a potentially disruptive technology with significant ramifications for the future for mobility: an airless, integrated tyre and wheel combination dubbed the TWEEL (i.e. Tyre/WhEEL) . The Tweel promises performance levels beyond those possible with conventional pneumatic technology._
What will these mean for existing 20″ spinning chrome Dubs? _Clearly_ disruptive.
clear.

Baby bullet from SJ to SF

Tuesday, June 8th, 2004 at 11:15 pm

For the first time since July 2002, we can now take a weekend Caltrain to San Francisco.

Virtual VW Tour

Thursday, February 12th, 2004 at 1:08 am

Virtual Tour of VW’s Transparent Factory: A German industrial design exhibition of one insanely conflicted automobile.

Embrio Vs Segway

Monday, November 17th, 2003 at 11:35 am

Bombadier, a Quebec-based company responsible for the Sea-doo, and Rotax has Canada’s possible answer to the Segway: meet the Embrio:

The Embrio is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, a technology that creates power by mixing hydrogen and oxygen, ideally resulting in water as the only exhaust. Carmakers are also developing this technology for automobiles, and [...]