bob — January 7, 2008 @ 11:07 am

That’s the equivalent of douche bags buying oxygen to breathe at the mall.

diabeetus — January 7, 2008 @ 7:37 pm

Evian water is probably the shittiest tasting water on the market. I’d rather from a drainage pipe than drink Evian water.

Phyreblade — January 8, 2008 @ 3:21 am

Is is just me or do women look hotter underwater?

el_metal — January 9, 2008 @ 1:02 am

moisture is the escence of wetness

windrider — January 7, 2008 @ 7:49 am

I saw this in action in an airshow. The noise! It can also come to a stop in half the usual distance by reversing engines in the final stages of landing.

Mythstae — January 7, 2008 @ 7:52 am

Nom nom nom, dericious C-17. Fabulous when there’s little to no cargo, and they let everybody sleep on the floor!

Kimmie — January 7, 2008 @ 10:45 am

My father was a flight test loadmaster on these, he had a lot of fun with it. “Hey, I bet we can fit a couple of THOSE in there!!”

Wally — January 7, 2008 @ 6:30 am

Shopped? Or Emergency Landing? Cause that looks awful much like a road to me

unknown — January 7, 2008 @ 8:03 am

Probably just showing off the capability to land almost anywhere.

LukeV1-5 — January 7, 2008 @ 12:46 pm

Maybe someone stole it, but didn’t know how to fly it, so they tried to drive it home.

It could work.

This plan is GENIUS. Who’s with me!

BowToMe — January 7, 2008 @ 6:09 pm

Just a Sunday drive … no biggy.

Excelsior — January 7, 2008 @ 6:21 pm

Most planes made in the rest of the world have The capability to land almost anywhere, because they don’t have nice runways all over the world like the US does.

Good luck trying to land an F-22 there

Wally — January 7, 2008 @ 10:21 pm

Yeah, Excelsior, give a plane any stretch of road and chances are that they can land it (Yes, i’m a pilot…in training :P) the trick is making sure its clear, its wide enough (ie, no phone poles to rip wings off!!) and long enough :P.

Basically they aren’t ‘designed to land on roads’, no one really thinks about that, they are just designed to land on a stretch of flat area!! a landing strip is just a handy clear spot designated for planes, thats all

etad52 — January 8, 2008 @ 12:32 am

Yes it is a public road. Couldn’t tell you where. I know from experience that alot of places in Europe you could find an aircraft hanger back in the woods from a major highway. The area was guarded and secure. The local streets would be taxiways

etad52

Lorfmachine — January 8, 2008 @ 6:26 am

This is most likely in Sweden, and the roads (not all) are constructed so that if the regular airfield should get fubar, the planes can land on them instead. These raods are set up with lights and all that shizzle. Poland also has this kind of back-up plan but I don’t think they use the Gripen.

Zephran — January 8, 2008 @ 11:35 am

Every so many miles of the American highway system is straight road, designed for emergency landings almost anywhere in the country.

Jet — January 7, 2008 @ 6:55 pm

My cousin pilots one of these in Iraq… and he let me check one out last time he was stateside… these are pretty bad mamma-jamma’s!!

Phyreblade — January 8, 2008 @ 3:20 am

That is one hella cool pic… Just love the water misting from the rotor wash…

Hepathos — January 8, 2008 @ 3:38 am

“HOLY CRAP WE GONNA DIE”

darrell — January 8, 2008 @ 3:42 pm

This is actually not a picture, but an airbrush painting by Dru Blair. More of his art can be seen at his website http:://www.drublair.com/

mistergreen — January 7, 2008 @ 3:33 am

If I stuck my tongue on her would it get stuck?

gravmark — January 7, 2008 @ 6:02 am

Who cares. Why would you wanna take your tounge off her ?

El_Chupachichis — January 7, 2008 @ 6:31 am

The answer is yes. Sweet yumminess, yes.

RSIxidor — January 7, 2008 @ 9:44 am

Is this from the Chronicles of Labia: The Licker, the Bitch, and the Dildo?

Sneaky Snake — January 7, 2008 @ 10:26 am

I AM THE ICE QUEEN, HEE HEE HEE HEEE!

coolghoul — January 7, 2008 @ 10:47 am

@RSlxidor: You made me choke on my breakfast!! I LOL’D so hard!!

gravmark — January 7, 2008 @ 2:57 pm

Are those two penguins I see in the background ?

jormanks — January 7, 2008 @ 6:41 pm

I wonder what are they staring at.

Oh…. yeah, her ass….

Jet — January 7, 2008 @ 6:56 pm

there are penguins in the picture??

Phyreblade — January 8, 2008 @ 3:19 am

Now this is a queen worth swearing one’s allegiance to…

schulzbrianr — January 6, 2008 @ 11:33 pm

I heard about that, but, what does it matter? If the plane doesn’t know what day it is, the engine shuts down? I’m not doubting the story, just questioning how it would possibly affect the plane.

Also, I’ve always preferred the Harrier, probably because of the VTOL, and the fact that Eliza Dushku hung off the nose of one in “True Lies.”

AlecDalek — January 6, 2008 @ 11:34 pm

They probably shopped the software out to India. You get what you pay for!

jadechimera — January 7, 2008 @ 12:16 am

When the Air Force tried to deploy the first squadron of these to Okinawa for training, they had to turn back to Hawaii because the computers freaked out over the middle of the Pacific. Apparently Lockheed Martin built the most powerful fighter ever created but forgot about the international date line.

Wally — January 7, 2008 @ 2:00 am

Well, it affects it cause your talking about one of the most technological planes around.

Its designed to take advantage of new network technology being incorporated into all facets of the armed forces. If your computer reckons its friday but the one sending you information reckons its saturday there are all sorts of conflicts that arise from this sort of error.

It probably won’t shut down the engines or put you at great risk but it certainly won’t allow the aircraft to operate at 100% efficiency!!

But then again, i personally reckon this is one of the most superb aircraft out there, probably why America won’t release it to anyone

Phyreblade — January 8, 2008 @ 3:18 am

Indeed. That jet is Dead Sexeh…