Ever notice that some big trucks sometimes have random-looking extra tires attached to them that seem to be pointlessly floating? Those aren’t spares and they’re not for decoration, even when they’re mounted on the top of the truck.
Quickly fading are the days when we were free to dream of cranking a lever connected to cables that would squeeze the brakes and break traction, as more and more modern cars replace cabled emergency and parking brake systems with simply a button. But there’s a lot of good reasons…
If you were to take the collective nuclear anxiety of the world during the height of the Cold War and somehow transfigure that into cold, hard engineering, you’d probably end up with something like this: the supersonic, low-altitude missile known as ‘The Flying Crowbar.’