Kip Powick Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 No need to mod..... Could've just shot the fire out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.O. Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Kip Powick said: No need to mod..... Could've just shot the fire out Or knock down lines of trees to build a fire break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest2 Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Here is where the previous videos resided. History Archives — Avgeekery.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon The Loon Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 On 9/8/2022 at 10:09 PM, Kip Powick said: You notice just seconds before landing his left elbow went inside the arm rest ??? If there was a really strong cross wind or gusty conditions he might have had to put in more left aileron and in my case I don't want that arm rest in my way.... I guess a lot depends on arm length, and seat position and just personal preference....This Captain was on a 747-400 so probably needed to rest his arm due to exhaustion from carrying his wallet around i watched the windsock on short final - the wind was just about down the runway ~10-15 kts. Not much of a crosswind. But definitely point taken. You don't want any restrictions affecting the flight controls! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon The Loon Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 On 9/11/2022 at 9:54 PM, Skeptic said: Seems funny, but it isn't. This kind of mishap has killed people, on board and in the attached jetway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Powick Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Only in Dotville It had been a frustrating day, problem with an engine in my boat. On the way home I decided to stop at a local grocery store as it is Thursday, start of a new “sale” week. I didn’t pick up much so went to the “Express” lane. A short wait and it was my turn and a fetching young lady was minding the cash, I would put her as fresh out of school or perhaps in school with an after school job. She rang up 5 of my 6 items and was puzzled by the last one…She picked it up and looked at it turned it around and kept glancing at me.. “Oh”, I said, “ That’s a hairless coconut”. “Pardon me” she said. “A hairless coconut, you have seen a regular coconut…right?” “I’ve never seen a real one, just pictures” “Yeh”, I said, “These hairless ones are easier crack open than regular coconut” She turned to her cash register and spun that plastic type rolodex looking for the price for a “hairless….coconut”. The middle-aged man behind me started to choke back his laughter and walked out of the short line and stood where he could see and hear what was going on. “I don’t see it in my produce file or my fruit file”, the young lady said, “I see pineapples, cantaloupe, and honeydews, but no hairless coconuts, do you know the price, sir?” “All your tropical fruit in that area is on sale this week for $3.99” ahhhh , just ring it up as a pineapple, I don’t want to hold up the line….I’m sure it will be OK with store management”. She rang it in, I paid the bill and as I was putting the honey dew in the bag, the little old lady behind me tapped me on the shoulder and said, “You’re mean!”…..but she was smiling….. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falken Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Good One! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deicer Posted October 2, 2022 Author Share Posted October 2, 2022 After finding out Kip is an admin, I'd like to propose the following.... 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kip Powick Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 Now they are camouflaging engines...even the guy dressed in black can't find the engine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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deicer Posted October 17, 2022 Author Share Posted October 17, 2022 Delta and Misapplied Sciences launch a personalized flight information board in Detroit | TechCrunch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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deicer Posted October 20, 2022 Author Share Posted October 20, 2022 When your package absolutely, positively has to be there yesterday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeker Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 38 minutes ago, deicer said: When your package absolutely, positively has to be there yesterday! Haha! I see your SR-71 and raise you one rocket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_mail Rocket mail is the delivery of mail by rocket or missile. The rocket lands by deploying an internal parachute upon arrival. It has been attempted by various organizations in many different countries, with varying levels of success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IFG Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 16 hours ago, Seeker said: Haha! I see your SR-71 and raise you one rocket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_mail Rocket mail is the delivery of mail by rocket or missile. The rocket lands by deploying an internal parachute upon arrival. It has been attempted by various organizations in many different countries, with varying levels of success. This actually was a concept .... The fastest freighter in the world … Cheers - IFG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GDR Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 Here's a great story from today's Victoria Times Colonist. Jack Knox: It's all fun until someone jumps in the casket with the dead guy An act of kindness for a stranger turned into a bizarre story for Leah Flatman of Saanich, now living in Montreal Jack Knox Claremont grad Leah Flatman knew living in Montreal would be different. Just not how different. COURTESY KENNETH NEIL Having grown up in Saanich, Leah Flatman knew the big city of Montreal would be different. The Metro, Place des Arts, Schwartz’s Deli, Mile End, restaurants that don’t turn off their lights before Jeopardy is over. ... Still, the Claremont grad, who is working on a doctorate in epidemiology at McGill, couldn’t have expected what happened to her while walking through the heart of the city the other day. The story goes like this: The 27-year-old is outside a church on Rue Jeanne-Mance, waiting for a crosswalk light to change, when she sees an elderly woman ask a passer-by for help. The passer-by shakes the woman off, so the soberly dressed old lady, her arms full of flowers, turns to Flatman instead. Could Leah help her up the stairs of the church? In a mix of French and English, the woman explains that she can’t do it on her own, not with a cane. Sure, Flatman says, and helps her up the steps. Except when Flatman gets the woman into the church, it turns out there are two more flights of stairs. Up they go. That’s when things start to get weird. At the top of the steps, Flatman discovers why the woman has gone to the church. “I realize that there is an active funeral happening.” Worse, she realizes the woman wants her to deliver the flowers to the priest, who is beckoning from the altar. So Flatman, hardly feeling awkward at all, and with maybe 10 mourners tracking her progress, makes her way down the aisle until she sees — wait for it — a body in an open casket. At this point, she gets the urge to turn on her heel and herself become the dearly departed, but no, the clergyman has other ideas. “He goes: ‘Oh, do you have a couple of minutes to help?’ ” It turns out they need someone to raise the maple leaf flag while O Canada plays. Flatman is confused — the anthem at a funeral? — but being a well-raised Saanich girl, she agrees to do as asked. So the service starts, with the preacher preaching, the mourners gently weeping and the elderly woman rummaging through her purse, mining for Kleenex. Flatman does her best to hold it together. That’s when the priest asks for some friends of the deceased to step forward. “From the back of the altar these three guys come out in Canada spandex suits.”Not just any spandex suits. Head-to-toe jobs, the kind that go right over your hair until only your face is showing. “Turns out they were a bobsled team.” Flatman glances at the photos by the casket. The photos glance back. They show the deceased with the sledders. Teammates. O Canada begins to play, so Flatman starts pulling on the string to raise the flag. Except there’s nowhere to hook the string, so she just has to stand there, holding it. The teary-eyed mourners are really starting to open the waterworks now. That’s when the spandex guys begin running in place alongside the casket, as though they’re about to launch it down a bobsleigh run. Then two of them jump inside — “One guy in front and one in the back with the dead guy in the middle” — and start making like they’re rocketing down the course. “Gauche!” one yells, and they lean left. “Droite!” he commands, and they tilt right. “I would love to know what my face looked like,” Flatman says. She tries to compose herself, to maintain a sense of decorum. “I said ‘Leah, don’t laugh, this is a real funeral.” That’s when the minister starts throwing fake snow into a fan, creating a blizzard around the casket/bobsleigh. Then he turns to Flatman, informs her she is on Just For Laughs Gags, and tells her to look toward the hidden cameras and wave, which she does. The elderly woman, suddenly spryer, approaches Flatman: “I’m sorry.” No worries — Flatman’s only regret is that it will take a year or two for the episode to air, meaning it will be that long before she sees what her face looked like when the sledders jumped in with the stiff. In the meantime, Flatman’s act of kindness gave her a pretty good story to tell when she gets back to Saanich, where elderly women can be trusted and it’s rarely cold enough to launch a casket down the ice. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deicer Posted October 28, 2022 Author Share Posted October 28, 2022 With Halloween just around the corner, I would like to present to you the greatest aviation related horror movie of all time! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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