Benny Kirk
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Contest Yachts Teams Up With Bentley To Design the World's Most Luxurious 67CS Interior
9 Nov 2023, 19:48 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Bentleys and yachts go together like beluga caviar and a bottle of Chateau Lafite. But a bespoke yacht interior designed and signed off on by Bentley themselves? Now, that's bound to have a wider appeal than just trust fund socialites. There&#...
One-of-One WorldStar Pickup Prototype Is a Classic VW Golf in Light Truck Clothing
8 Nov 2023, 04:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Have you ever spotted a funky-looking car parked somewhere and thought to yourself, it has to be a kit car? Well, what if we told you that sometimes, what looks like a kit vehicle is actually the long-forgotten ambitions of a start-up company that ...
All-New Peugeot E-Rifter Is Here As Europe's Favorite Electric MPV for the Masses
8 Nov 2023, 02:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / More than a few questions surrounded Peugeot as it entered the multi-national automotive conglomerate and new corporate masters at Stellantis. In a sea of automotive brands from Dodge to Jeep and Lancia to Vauxhall and Alfa Romeo, was there breathi...
Indian Motorcycle’s 2024 Lineup Asserts Its Dominance With Two Special Editions
8 Nov 2023, 01:56 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As America's oldest and arguably most revered motorcycle brand, the 2024 lineup has colossal shoes to fill. Thankfully, the future looks pretty bright at your local Indian dealer. With a lineup of V-twins targeting every faction in modern Amer...
NASA's Two Most Important Space Telescopes Team Up To Find Record-Breaking Black Hole
7 Nov 2023, 20:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Chandra X-Ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope occupy polar opposite ends of the electromagnetic spectrum. When blindspots in one telescope's field of vision lead to a lack of definition, it's often a smart idea to use a dif...
Ultra-Rare '95 Celica Convertible's Ghostly Shell Awaits 2JZ-Swap in Washington State
7 Nov 2023, 03:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's no big deal to find a derelict husk of some long-dead hunk 60s or 70s of steel lying in a junkyard somewhere. We've almost been conditioned as petrolheads to praise the virtues of pulling vintage clap-traps from the grasp of a crushe...
Ford Flathead-Swapped 1978 Corvette C3 Rejects Modernity, Returns to Monkey
6 Nov 2023, 19:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In the seven-decade story of America's most iconic sports car, the late 1970s are something of a black hole period. A time when primitive emissions restriction equipment in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis turned what was once a car as quick as...
NASA Can't Make its Mind Up Over Who Builds the Next Lunar Rover, Delayed Four Months
6 Nov 2023, 18:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / People tend to forget how much R&D went into designing and building the Apollo-era Lunar Roving Vehicle. Several different proposals came across NASA's desk before the iconic Moon buggy we all know and love was chosen. But even by Apollo s...
Sierra Space Completes Construction of Dream Chaser Tenacity, First Launch Due Next April
6 Nov 2023, 16:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / After more than a decade of research, development, and engineering challenges galore, Sierra Space has proudly announced the completion of its first Dream Chaser reusable space plane. With the promise of swift, reliable crew and cargo transportatio...
James Webb Space Telescope Snaps Newborn Star Throwing Cosmic Temper Tantrum
6 Nov 2023, 15:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The birth of a newborn star is just as loud and dramatic as a newlywed couple waiting in the delivery room. The only difference at the end of the day is a matter of degree. Don't believe us? Well, the latest findings from the James Webb Space ...
This Culver PQ-14 Radio Target Plane Was Too Nice to Shoot Down, Now It Can be Yours
5 Nov 2023, 18:37 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A short while ago, we told the story of the Culver PQ-14 Cadet, a long-forgotten Second World War target practice plane designed to be easy for a trainee pilot to empty their ammo mag into without feeling too badly about blowing up tax-payer dollar...
EcoBeast-Swapped Merkur XR4Ti Makes Restomod Lovers Across the Atlantic Joyous
5 Nov 2023, 04:45 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Ultimately, Ford's experimental Euro-import brand for the U.S. market was only saved from being its statistically worst brand by a single model year. Merkur's existence had a lot in common with the story of Edsel in hindsight, but that do...
These Classic Jeep CJ3As Used To Jump Start U.S. Navy Helicopters, Now They’re for Sale
5 Nov 2023, 02:36 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Let's paint the scene for you. It's December 1965, and you're aboard the Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship USS Guadalcanal somewhere in the Caribbean Sea. You're about to take the stick of a Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave trans...
SpaceX Wants To Launch Starship's Second Test Flight This Month, FAA Has Final Say
4 Nov 2023, 17:15 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The last time SpaceX's flagship vehicle, Starship, tried its hand at liftoff, the results brought a whole new meaning to blazing it on 4/20. The amount of FAA paperwork resulting from the whole debacle likely still keeps at least one employee ...
Some People Think the International Space Station Is a “Waste of Space,” They’re Wrong
4 Nov 2023, 00:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A few days ago from the time of writing this, the science editor at the Guardian, Robin McKie, penned an editorial titled, ‘It only makes the news when the toilets stop working’: has the 25-year-old International Space Station been a wa...
Long Dead NASA Probe Discovers Exoplanet System Scorched by Savage Mother Star
3 Nov 2023, 18:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / When we think of exoplanet systems outside of our neck of the cosmic woods, we tend to imagine them appearing much like our own Solar System. One with a handful of dense, rocky spheroids occupying the inner space with a load of frozen gas giants or...
New NASA App Lets Amateur Observers Track and Spot the ISS With Ease
3 Nov 2023, 13:29 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / At any given time, the International Space Station is whizzing around the Earth roughly 400 km (248 mi) above the surface at a brisk eight km per second (17,900 mph). On clear nights across, passionate stargazers can just barely make out the world&...
European Space Agency Wants to Cultivate Meat in Space, Won't Replace the Bagged Stuff Yet
3 Nov 2023, 03:25 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Until now, the prospect of bringing fresh meat into space for astronauts to consume would been nothing short of laughable. Unless an extraordinary, ground-breaking innovation was made, any meat eaten by astronauts in space is either coming out of a...
Twin NASA X-Ray Telescopes Snap Tendrils of a Cosmic Space Monster, It's Just a Pulsar
2 Nov 2023, 22:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / NASA only planned to squeeze around five years of service out of its Chandra X-ray Observatory. But almost 25 years after departing the payload bay of Space Shuttle Columbia, valuable information about the cosmos is still collected by the pro...
NASA’s Juno Probe Detects Potential Organic Compounds on Ganymede, Is It Ancient Life?
2 Nov 2023, 18:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As the Solar System-wide quest to find the building blocks of life carries on, humanity's isolated a few places most likely to show us the clues we're looking for. More often than not, the public's attention is hyper-fixated on Mars....