StoleIt
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I definitely hope every French newspaper publishes something along those lines tomorrow.
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Would you look at that:
British Intelligence Advisor: CIA Conducted DNA Test on Obama – Found No Match to Alleged Grandparents
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/03/british-...d-grandparents/
Wow if true
Yea...cuz that look like a reasonable and trustworthy news source.
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You have a very perceptive and informative reply with all things aviation.
What is your background experience relating to the area?
I'm sitting in the front left of that one.
Person taking the photo was in this one.
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I'm guessing that is supposed to be starter motor and not monitor. It is bad timing but really, it's a system full of mechanical parts. There are going to be failures. I'd sure as he'll rather than happened on the ground but a plane can still manage on one engine. I was ON a plane at the gate for hours while they were trouble shooting some mechanical issues. We eventually got off but then it was fixed and I got back on. Not everyone did though.
Just remember, the pilot's aren't going to fly it if it isn't fixed. Maintenance issues are very easy to decide if the jet is airworthy or not because there is a big fat list that says what can and can't be broken. There is NO negotiating with that list. Nobody can pressure the pilots into taking a broken plane and nobody can tell maintenance to even release the jet if it doesn't match the list (minimum equipment list BTW...airlines probably have a different name for it though).
Hell, even if the jet is in tolerance on the list a pilot can always call "safety of flight" and refuse to fly. I've done it. I wasn't comfortable with one of the engines fuel flows bouncing around and we cancelled the mission.
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Crazy ending.
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Genuinely curious....care to explain?
Entire cockpit: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...380_cockpit.jpg
Airbus has one of these for each pilot on each side. While it makes for plenty of space directly in front of the pilot, the control sticks don't talk to each other. So, like in the Air France 447 accident, if the right seat pilot makes an input the left seat pilots stick doesn't move. So the right seat pilot might be doing something dumb...like putting in full aft stick and the left seat pilot would never know.
Call me old fashioned but I like having that big ole honking control wheel in front of me moving around with autopilot and pilot flying inputs.
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Plane supposedly climbed near vertically before crashing.
Source?
I don't know how anyone can know that without referencing the flight data recorder. ADS-B pings and radar returns are too infrequent to make that kind of conclusion IMO.
The aircraft could have gotten caught in an updraft from the thunderstorm but in that case it would have been climbing at a relatively level angle.
If it was near vertical then I would think it was similar to the Air France 447 crash where pilot input complicated a rather simple equipment failure. Airbus doesn't have dual motion controls like Boeings with their silly side sticks (I am very biased on this subject BTW).
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Could icing be an issue at that elevation in a storm?
Most likely not.
You have to be flying through precipitation (clouds, etc) to pick up icing and it's not every day you have cumulonimbus clouds sitting at FL380. Unless these guys flew through the anvil of the storm which is a Pilot 101 no-no.
And provided the pilots had their anti-ice/de-ice systems turned on it's very unlikely that ice would bring an airplane down.
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My view on speed and fun is an educated one. I'll be ok.
LOL
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I've been re-routed flying coast to coast, w/ a serious zig zag. And, I've had an unscheduled lay-over, about 2 hours, as a storm in the arrival city passed. I'm no pilot, but why in the world would this flight not have been cancelled ?? Very, very sad.agreed. why wasn't it cancelled with those storm info?
Generally t-storms along the route of flight wouldn't cancel it. Just throw extra gas aboard (or if it isn't that bad your fine with your normal reserves) and deviate from the planned route and dodge the weather (or go above it if it's not a super cell).
The thing that cancels flights is destination weather. The only thing you can do is wait it out or change your destination in that case.
I'd venture that these AirAsia pilots thought they could go over it (thus the climb to FL380) but that didn't work out so well. Looking at the weather map they should have been able to pick their way through that...especially to the west. But we are sitting here at ground speed zero looking at probably a much better weather radar shot then they were. If that first cell they were pointing at was strong enough it could block the weather radar from seeing anything behind it.
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If that route is accurate it's no wonder the plane is missing. I've touched red before on a flight and I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever do it again. Probably the scariest event of my life.
That track has it going right through several purple spots...it is highly unlikely the airplane would make it through that. Severe weather is no joke.
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Watched it.
I laughed, at parts, but I was also a bottle of wine deep.
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What I wanted:
What I got:
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He's posting that video on every car forum that exists, Nineball is defintely in love with himself. Can't afford to play with the big boys down in Texas so he takes every opportunity to deride Lambos.
How is that video insulting to the Lambo?
It's a race. Some cars lose, some win. It looked pretty much like a tie anyway.
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And the government is hiding the existence of aliens, is behind 9/11, and disperses mind control agents through chemtrails (a personal favorite of mine)...
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I'm gonna watch Team America again and try and make up for this tragedy.
I hope Sony releases the movie on the internet and encourages it's free sharing and distribution.
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Isnt this a repost from like five years ago?
If not even older.
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I misjudged a couple bottoms on some oil related stocks I purchased recently. So I'm not very happy right now, lol.
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Finally got my CCW!
Now to choose something to carry...
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I stand corrected. I could have sworn they initially said 20 roadsters.
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So they're making more than originally planned? (9).
No, it was 3 hardtops (excluding the factory one) and 20 roadsters. But it seems like they can't unload all the roadsters.
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Oh fcuk me... Han steps on jabbas tail? fcuking craptacular.
I recall the reasoning why they did that. Originally, Jabba was a human gangster and later changed into the big tub of lard we know and love. Han walks behind the human character and suddenly the shot was in shambles when they wanted to add it into the special edition. So they made Han step on his tail as a way to successfully add the shot.
Original Jabba:
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Video: STS runs 11.1 @132 MPH
in Automobili Lamborghini
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Great run!
Any reason you lined up what looks like a foot to the right of the grove?