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VIDEO: Getting Tanked

Popular Mechanics called me up and said, “We want you to go drive a tank.” I said, “Okay.”

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And Then We Fire Off Machine Guns

The perfect way to top off a morning of tank driving: fire off a collection of automatic weapons, including a Tommy gun, and M-16, and the .30 caliber machine gun shown here. I’ll describe the...

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Surviving Fear Under the Ice

I'm still not sure this is a good idea. (Photo by Isabelle Dubois) You can study the psychology of fear until the cows come home; it’s not going to do much to keep your heebie-jeebies under control...

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Everest’s Psychological Trap

This past Saturday, four people died trying to summit Everest, making it one of the deadliest days ever on the mountain. This weekend, another crowd of some 200 climbers are expected to push for the...

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I’ll Try Anything: Riding Shotgun with Aerobatic Champ Kirby Chambliss

Every year Kirby Chambliss, a five-time national aerobatic champion and Red Bull racer, performs his airshow routine for the crowd at the EAA Airventure fly-in at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. It’s a...

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Kitzbühel: Austria’s Alpine High

[This article originally appeared in the December, 2012 issue of Travel + Leisure.] Midwinter dusk falls as gently as snow on the mountain village, its timbered buildings huddled beneath the towers of...

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My First Crush

For the “I’ll Try Anything” column in the April issue (now online), Popular Mechanics asked me to drive a tank over a car. I said, “Okay.” More video after the jump. After driving the tank, an armored...

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Happy 100th Birthday to The Great American Road

The freedom of the open road — the ability to get on the highway and drive wherever your heart takes you – seems like such a fundamental part of the American character that it’s hard to imagine the...

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Travel + Leisure: Driving Hawaii’s Big Island

“Buy land—they’re not making any more of it,” the saying goes. Well, that’s not quite true on the Big Island of Hawaii, where at this moment molten rock is spilling into the Pacific, making the state’s...

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Popular Mechanics: Piloting a Hovercraft

I’m 30 seconds into my first hovercraft solo when things start to go wrong. Zipping along near a sandbar in the middle of the Wisconsin River, I’m cranking around into my first turn and I find myself...

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