Benny Kirk
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A Brand New Grand Wagoneer Can't Beat This Cummins-Swapped 1986 SJ, Way Cheaper Too
22 Aug 2023, 22:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The modern WS-series Jeep Grand Wagoneer is a profoundly different beast than the legacy SJ-series from the early 60s through the early 1990s that inspired it. You'd expect this to be the case, what with roughly 60 years separating between the...
Max Verstappen In Hot Water After Alleged Aston Martin Valkyrie Hooning Video Leaks
22 Aug 2023, 18:41 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Two-time Formula One world champion and current Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen is in hot water this week after a video leaked allegedly showing him recklessly driving an Aston Martin Valkyrie hypercar down a road in France. In a video posted...
Boeing’s Big Clapback: Will the 777X Bring the Fight to Airbus? The FAA Will Decide
21 Aug 2023, 21:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / From the end of the Second World War until roughly the early 90s, Boeing was the undisputed king of the civilian airliner space. In the early days of the jet age especially, it seemed that all routes, both foreign and domestic, traveled via a 707 o...
Forget a New Bronco Raptor, We Want This Coyote-Swapped Gen-V Bronco
21 Aug 2023, 02:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Does anyone else feel like there's something not quite right with the sixth-gen Ford Bronco? Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with it, chip shortages notwithstanding. We can't help but get the feeling there's somethin...
Russia Is Marketing the T-14 Armata MBT to Foreign Markets, Will Anyone Bite?
20 Aug 2023, 20:16 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Perhaps never before in the history of armored warfare has such a fuss been kicked up about a vehicle produced in so few numbers as the Russian T-14 Armata main battle tank. Regardless of what side of the pro vs. anti-Russia camp you sit on, the in...
Russian Space Agency Humiliates Itself, Luna 25 Crashes Into the Moon
20 Aug 2023, 17:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Russia's first crack at sending an un-crewed lander probe to the surface of Earth's nearest heavenly neighbor in decades was supposed to send a message from the government of Vladimir Putin to the world at large. This message was that des...
Jared Floyd’s J32-Swapped S2000 Takes a Modern Sports Car Legend and Makes it Beefier
19 Aug 2023, 14:46 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The only great sin the Honda S2000 ever committed was living in the shadow of the NB and NC Mazda MX-5. All the high-revving, 9000 RPM screaming a stock S2000's four-pot engine puts out just wasn't enough to surpass Mazda's own drop-...
Northrop Grumman Successfully Tests First Rocket Engine Designed To Lift Off From Mars
16 Aug 2023, 08:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As we speak, NASA's Perseverance Rover is trundling across the surface of the 45-kilometer (28-mile) long Jezero Crater in the northern hemisphere of Mars. As it does so, the SUV-sized is gathering samples of the clay-rich soil inside the crat...
Demon Core: The Catastrophic Nuclear Experiment That Became a Viral Meme 80 Years Later
16 Aug 2023, 04:07 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / "I can not let you escape, Squidward. I'm adding another demon core to your confinement until you calm down." This short but simple one-liner viral meme's made for a few laughs recently. There's something about the juxtapos...
NASA's STEREO-A Probe Buzzes By Earth After 17 Years Studying the Sun
14 Aug 2023, 19:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / When NASA launches a space probe to heavenly bodies beyond the Earth, it's a one-way ticket with no chance of a return trip. But not all NASA probes operate in this manner. Sometimes, deliberate planning and a liberal sprinkling of orbital mec...
Think PT Cruisers are for Losers? This 5.7 HEMI-Swap Wants a Word With You
14 Aug 2023, 17:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's almost impossible to break down pre-conceived notions about a certain car once first impressions are already in the rearview mirror. Want a classic case in point? Just look at the Chrysler PT Cruiser. Over 1.3 million of these retro...
This Fully Restored P-47 Thunderbolt is Better Than Brand New, Debuts At EAA AirVenture
14 Aug 2023, 16:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / When a classic vehicle on two or four wheels is fully restored and given all the new-age bells and whistles, we call it a restomod. But when AirCorps Aviation of Bemidji, Minnesota, unveiled a fully-restored Republic P-47D Thunderbolt at the EAA Ai...
Ukraine Wants to Train More Pilots on the F-16, They'll Have to Wait a Bit Longer
11 Aug 2023, 13:46 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky had his way 100 percent of the time, his Air Force would be bursting at the seams with American A-10 Warthogs and F-16 Fighting Falcons as quickly as they could make their way through Poland. But the r...
Concorde Supersonic Airliner LEGO Set Hits Shelves Sep 7th, Working Droop Snoot Included
10 Aug 2023, 18:45 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde supersonic passenger transport jet hasn't flown since November 2003. To think mankind could fly from London to New York in roughly three hours 20 years ago, yet people today can't manage the same feat in seve...
Unruly Airline Passenger Reports Down 80 Percent in U.S., Have People Finally Chilled Out?
10 Aug 2023, 17:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's something we've all seen on the internet what feels like a thousand times before. An unhinged, often drunken grown adult screaming obscenities and epithets on a commercial flight like a rapid-fire machine gun of awfulness. Usually, d...
A-36 Apache: The P-51 Mustang's Long-Forgotten Dive Bomber Cousin
9 Aug 2023, 22:22 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If the North American P-51 Mustang were a sportsman, it'd be Lionel Messi or Lebron James. If it were a movie, it'd be Pulp Fiction or James Cameron's Titanic. The point is that the Mustang is the most well-remembered and well-celebr...
Divers Pull 32 Cars and Trucks from Miami-Dade County Lake, Could be Linked to Crimes
8 Aug 2023, 23:37 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A 2002 Nissan Altima, in any normal context, is nothing special. But when this very vehicle is the first of 32 pulled by a skilled team of divers from the bottom of a South Florida lake, it was the beginning of an almost movie-like story of a lake ...
Airbus' A321XLR is Coming To Dunk on Boeing All Over Again in 2024, Deliveries Begin Soon
8 Aug 2023, 17:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Airbus has been on something of a tear since the start of the 2020s. As their rivals at Boeing struggle even now with the PR nightmare of the 737 Max, Airbus has finally managed to outsell their American rival with 676 aircraft delivered compared t...
Not Going Anywhere: Boeing Starliner First Crewed Launch Delayed Until at Least March 2024
8 Aug 2023, 15:42 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / From a certain point of view, the primary reason Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft exists is to not burden Lockheed Martin's Orion space capsule with mundane missions like service flights to the International Space Station. But while ...
T-14 Armata: The Main Battle Tank That Fights Wars in Comment Sections, Not Battlefields
7 Aug 2023, 23:34 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Main battle tanks, big, sweaty leviathans of motor vehicles whose only earthly job is to roll through enemy territory imposing their will on hostile armor until the other side waves the white flag and screams for their mommies. But not every MBT is...