Re: Chinese Spy Balloon

Also Xi kind of looks like a bear so the bear seems to fit the bill, although there may be other symbolism I'm missing. More specific than that; it's Winnie the Pooh. Xi has been compared to/nicknamed Winnie the Pooh on the Chinese-speaking internet, and it eventually leaked out to the rest of the ...

Re: Chinese Spy Balloon

How high up was this thing when they shot it down? I suspect, but obviously have no idea, that it would be in different conditions from what they usually train in.

Re: FL Don't Say Gay Author Indicted, Bro-in-Law Sentenced to 5 Years for Fraud

The bill that prevents teachers from teaching sexual orientation before 4th grade is a good bill. Or you could just trust teachers and schools to do their jobs without a government nanny stepping in and telling them which books and curricula are acceptable. But I guess that wasn't a good enough sol...

Re: "Liberty Lifter" (perhaps successor to Pelican ULTRA)

RJMAZ wrote:

Wow! C-17 sized for the demo aircraft with 12 turboprop engines.

Re: Court rules domestic abusers under restraining orders have right to guns

American conservatism is basically governance by self-fulfilling prophecy, at this point. We're so sure that criminals won't follow gun laws, that we'll actively remove laws that prohibit criminals from having guns!

Re: C-130 Production Question

brindabella wrote:

Errr - why exactly does the C130 need floats?





cheers

Re: Trump Says DeSantis POTUS Run Would Be 'Disloyal'

At the state level, California's government also leans heavily Democratic at the moment, which means Republicans tend to think it's some kind of communist worker's paradise. That's not really true. The state's ballot initiative process lets us see where the voters are on a lot of issues directly, an...

Re: Trump Says DeSantis POTUS Run Would Be 'Disloyal'

Biden will not have any support from independents and anemic support from Dems. He will be 81, that's ridiculous. Trump will be 77. If I were DeSantis I would just repeat 'I'm 45 and can control my body functions!' as the answer to every question. :wave: I'd say the senile thing to do would be lett...

Re: 10% of all new new vehicles sold were EV's

Speaking of brands and models, what was Ford thinking of with the Maverick pickup? It's not like the original Maverick brings back fond memories for anyone. It was a dog. Remember that Ford doesn't actually sell any small cars anymore. The Maverick fills the bottom of their model range now. There a...

Re: Trump Says DeSantis POTUS Run Would Be 'Disloyal'

Aaron747 wrote:

Not that it will happen, but it's really high time for the GOP to tell this malcontent where to go.

Re: Let's talk about your top goosebumps songs

k.d. lang's Hallelujah - particularly when she sang it in front of Leonard Cohen - has to be my #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYiMJ2bC65A When I found this comment by Anjani Thomas, I knew why I was so impressed: "We attended the show together and sat in the front row, next to Helen Redd...

Re: Los Angeles Basin (BUR/LAX/LGB/ONT/SNA) Aviation - 2023

When Boom Supersonic's Overture starts flying, will we see any international non stops out of SNA? Maybe to NRT,LHR,ICN etc. if the market exists and if the plane can do it on the existing runway? It's hard to express the extent of my lack of faith in the Boom Overture ever flying (let alone into n...

Re: Longest Fractional Flight

Did the "rescue" planes actually have to be there in Norway and Alaska or did they just ensure the availability of planes and crews if a diversion was to happen?

Re: Classified Documents found at Mike Pence's Home

You know I’m starting to think maybe, this may be a stretch, but maybe the control of classified documents in the White House isn’t that great regardless of party affiliation. I know, controversial take. Highly controversal. I really feel that out of the live P/VPs maybe only Jimmy Carter know how ...

Re: Mass shooting at Chinese New Year's celebration in Monterey Park (CA)

Depends entirely on your behavior and mindset. If your gun is properly secured there is a zero percent chance that the gun will hurt you. If you have mental health issues or leave loaded guns lying out where anyone can find them, that chance is not zero anymore. Burglars generally aren’t burglars b...

Re: Yet another mass shooting in the US not in Cali

TriJets wrote:

Thankfully no one was killed here, and reports are that all injured parties are stable. I do believe there is a difference between two gangs going at it in a nightclub and a random person murdering any innocent person that he can see.

Re: Mass shooting at Chinese New Year's celebration in Monterey Park (CA)

Redd wrote:

In the USA? Burglars are very commonly armed, and very often murder victims who are unarmed. They have no scruples about burglarizing a home that's occupied.

Re: Mass shooting at Chinese New Year's celebration in Monterey Park (CA)

To be honest the "lecturing" starts to feel like an alcoholic's sober friends urging him not to pick up the bottle, at this point. It's actually like a drunker friend telling a drunk friend to stop drinking. I don't think your comparison really makes a great deal of sense to start with. E...

Re: Mass shooting at Chinese New Year's celebration in Monterey Park (CA)

To be honest the "lecturing" starts to feel like an alcoholic's sober friends urging him not to pick up the bottle, at this point.

Re: Classified Documents from Biden’s VP days found in office

EA CO AS wrote:

Why not? Why the double standard?

Oh, never mind. (D)

Got it.

Moving on...

Re: Utah Senator wants to ban porn in USA

Didn’t Pornhub data reveal the most kinky searches are in blue states but the most time spent consuming porn is in red states? I'm sure somebody is keeping track somewhere, but I feel like most of the "here's every state's preferred porn consumption" images floating around the internet ar...

Re: 4Yr old seen waving a gun.

Just a normal thing that happens in this, a very normal country.

Re: Virgin Cosmic Girl 747 question

skipness1E wrote:

Customs? Does Mojave have any?

Re: FedEx DC-10 fleet

DouglasDC10 wrote:

TAB Bolivia
10 Tanker
Orbis
USAF (KC-10)

Re: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote

So I have a concern: the GOP House has stated that they will, under no circumstances, allow the debt ceiling to go up without cuts to SS and Medicare. Obviously, the Democrats will consider no such thing. Proof that "fiscal conservatives" are absolutely gutless. What was stopping them doi...

Re: 6 Year Old Shoots Teacher

johns624 wrote:

You're not very good at sarcasm. Every time responsible gun owners try to get current laws enforced, liberals like you say that they impact minorities too much.

Re: 6 Year Old Shoots Teacher

Only in America!

Re: Half of the World's Glaciers to Melt by End of the Century

But think of all the shareholder value we've created!

Re: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote

Avatar2go wrote:

Looks like they got the Other votes to change to Present, which changes the minimum and will allow McCarthy to be elected.

Re: NFL Damar Hamlin suffered critical injury

Initially gave me some flashbacks to Ryan Newman's massive crash a few years back at NASCAR's Daytona 500 but it became quickly evident that Newman's injuries were rather minor and IIRC he was out of the hospital in less than 48 hours. I'm not familiar with NASCAR specifically (more sports cars and...

Re: NFL Damar Hamlin suffered critical injury

StarAC17 wrote:

From the articles he has been able to hold hands and appears to be neurologically intact. I can't imagine he has suffered any physical injuries to his body.

Re: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote

I didn’t vote for him, period, full stop. Am I a conservative of the liberation stripe? Yes, hence I often post political opinions you find disagreeable. Being disagreeable to you doesn’t make me a Trumpist or, for that matter, an anti-Trumpist. Goldwater and Reagan were more to my taste than the c...

Re: Los Angeles Basin (BUR/LAX/LGB/ONT/SNA) Aviation - 2023

Jshank83 wrote:

Do we just rename LGB to Southwest Airlines Airport. Down to 3 routes besides WN.

Re: Courier parks van full of packages in front of AMS terminal building, flies off

Reminds me of the taxi driver from Airplane...

Re: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote

Aesma wrote:

Liz Cheney has been primaried out and is no longer a House member.

Re: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote

When I did I vote for Trump? I haven’t voted in two decades. It’s a useless waste of time. Did I support some of legislation (tax bill of 2017) and Justice selections? Yes, but everything else including vote, hard pass. Don’t make assumptions, please. If the only people willing to provide you with ...

Re: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote

Again, why do we give these clowns money and power? Idiots all. I thought you wanted a Congress that refused to ever do anything. They’ve already done too much—repeal should be the order of Congress. I can't help but notice the way you bust out this whole "woe is us, all politicians are clowns...

Re: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote

GalaxyFlyer wrote:

Again, why do we give these clowns money and power? Idiots all.

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

At the same time, the mistakes of this war are analyzed. A reform of the military starts. It gets reorganized around a solid NCO core. Civilian tech is used to create effective C3 (command, control, communication) equipment. Better drones are created using AI and are mass produced. A new leader is ...

Re: DC-8 Retirement and Fleet Tracking Thread

I do hope they preserve N817NA after its replacement though. I have many fond memories of chasing that plane - even got to chat with a couple crew members at an airport open house.

Re: Everything That George Santos Has Lied About (So Far)

This thread, ca. 2030: DC is a cesspool and Sen. Faust (R-FL) didn't create it. There isn't enough time in the day to document how many crooked deals happen to get elected. If your candidate that ran against him had also made a blood pact pledging his very soul to the Prince of Darkness Lucifer this...

Re: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote

I had to chuckle a bit today, yesterday I saw many forums with conservatives saying this was no different than Pelosi making deals to become Speaker. Oh, good! If a Democrat hadn't done it before, Republicans would be forced to consider whether or not anything they did was a good, smart, or moral i...

Re: NFL Damar Hamlin suffered critical injury

What's scary about this is I think we always sort of expect to see it coming somehow. But this was just an ordinary football tackle until, completely randomly, it wasn't anymore. And the guy is only 24! I can't imagine how everyone else on that field must be feeling right now. Hamlin's family as well.

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - 2023

StarAC17 wrote:

An annual shit is probably acceptable going forward.

Re: Everything That George Santos Has Lied About (So Far)

As did he, they are the same. He will be seated. Move on. This thread, ca. 2029: Sen. The Joker (R-FL) may have just blown up the Federal Reserve with a truck bomb full of laughing gas and a giant oversize novelty kazoo, but I saw a Democrat with illegal fireworks on the fourth of July once. They a...

Re: N727NK Antares Aviation LLC 727-200

MO11 wrote:

B727nut wrote:

Does anyone know where N422BN is located? Can’t say how many times I saw ‘422BN and ‘727NK parked side by side at the old terminal at CLT, and hope that we will see ‘422 back in the air at some point too?

N422BN is at Chino.

Re: Everything That George Santos Has Lied About (So Far)

sierrakilo44 wrote:

The whataboutism from the right is ludicrous.

Re: Everything That George Santos Has Lied About (So Far)

NIKV69 wrote:

They both lied to make themselves more important in the media. Got caught and nothing happened. Want Santos out? Get more votes than him in two years.

Re: One Person Dead in Shooting at Mall of America

Oooo, Oooo, Oooo! Tell us which one! Please! C'mon tell us! You don't get it! If you never actually say the word, it doesn't count, and the woke SJW mob won't come to your house, rip down all your Christmas decorations, turn your children gay, and cancel your LinkedIn account. It's kinda like invok...

Re: One Person Dead in Shooting at Mall of America

Well of course every demographic commits gun violence, there's just one that does it at a much higher rate than the rest. Ruh roh SoCalPilot is about to do a racism Not if it's the truth... https://www.statista.com/statistics/251877/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-race-ethnicity-and-gender/ Okay, but w...