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Two Turkeys on Thanksgiving – Guess how it ends?

Two turkeys in pair of Corvettes (one C5 and one C6) drag racing in a very full neighborhood with KIDS ON BIKES passing in front of them. The best part is the commentator knew what was going to happen.

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Fail – Woman’s X-Games Enduro Race did not go so well

I can see the sports headline in the next day’s paper “Excessive vibrations from bikes causes multiple accidents at the X games.”

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Looming Darth Vader Hot Air Balloon

Belgian balloonists Benoit and Michel Lambert commissioned specialty manufacturer Cameron Balloons to build this massive 86 foot tall hot air balloon replica of Darth Vader’s helmet. It will be featured at the Great Reno Balloon Race, September 9-11, 2011. As a pilot of fixed-wing planes myself, it would be more than a little worrisome to

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Furniture that Transforms into a Racing Cockpit – RACE-STAR ConverTTable

In the never-ending quest to find more ways to cram gaming peripherals into your living room, the compact ConverTTable (clever name) turns your coffee table into a fully functional racing cockpit. Hot off the Essen Motor Show fair, the RACE-STAR ConverTTable shows that sometime you have to think outside the box. The ConverTTable unfolds to

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The Race is on – Who’s going to build the Fastest Helicopter | Video

Two experimental aircrafts are in what seems to be a race to build the fastest helicopter, the U.S. based Sikorsky Aircraft (X2) and Germany’s Eurocopter (X3). The technology used by both companies is predicted to help commercial choppers reach top speeds by at least 60 percent within five years. Some high-speed prototypes are capable of