Comments on: Precast: Hydrogen Hype (Still), Panda Laid Bare, I Sing the Auto Electric

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:02:30 +0000

I liked your done on time-ed-ness. Nicely done!

By: Kurt B

Kurt B — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:42:59 +0000

For anyone interested in the Panda 4×4
http://www.7digital.com/stores/productDetail.aspx?shop=54&sid=218620.0
http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/car-reviews/car-and-driving/fiat-panda-4×4-1004484.html

It actually held its own in that quarry battle with the Range Rover

By: rushmore9

rushmore9 — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 04:41:47 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_007

that should help. I think.

By: Robert Farago

Robert Farago — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 04:10:57 +0000

I’d like to say I was thinking of those plucky Swordfish, but, um, I wasn’t. It was KAL 007.

As I recall (from secondhand accounts), the first Russian fighter sent to shadow the errant pre-Mulally Boeing (or was it?) “overflew” the jet and lost it.

Amazing tale that, including the fact that Larry McDonald, America’s most rabid anti-communist legislator (“conservative to a psychopathic degree” according to the none-too-liberal Flagpole Magazine) was on board. Talk about vindication…

By: chanman

chanman — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:46:56 +0000

You’ve got your airplanes mixed up – it was the Soviets that shot down the KAL 747, and there wasn’t a problem with it being too slow – jetliners move at a pretty good clip.

You’re probably thinking of the plucky British Swordfish torpedo bombers attacking the Bismarck – the German AA tracking wasn’t designed with targets that slow in mind.

The old An-2 transport used by the North Koreans would pose a similar problem – between the low airspeed and the fabric construction, it would be a bear to pick up as a target on modern radar.

By: William C Montgomery

William C Montgomery — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:11:58 +0000

It seems to me that the Fiat Panda is aptly named. After all, the male Panda bear is cursed with species-threatening undersized penis and low libido.