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What are the little yellow dorks on the muzzles of their guns? Are they dust caps?

What hell is wrong with the fans of this band? Just google "clown posse murder" and see how much pops up. The first time I heard about this group was when four of their fans killed a woman and brutalized her daughter just so they could see what it was like WTF!? http://www.refinedhype.com/hyped/entry/hip-hop-makes-teens-kill-mother-in-brutal-murder/

It really depends on the FBO and the relationship you have with them. Most places I know charge a minimum of 4 hrs/day when you have the plane overnight. I FBO I frequently rent from has let me take a plane overnight and just charged me on the hobbs time. I usually rent one the less popular rental planes. One weekend, I picked up the plane on Friday afternoon with plans to bring it back around noon on Saturday. Well the weather turned horrible during the night and I had to wait until Sunday afternoon before I could fly out. The plane wasn't IFR equipped (and I wasn't IR rated at the time). But the FBO only charged me hobbs time. Again, different FBOs have different policies, but you really need to build a good relationship with the FBOs.

Here's a good one from JFK. The ground controller is trying to give taxi instructions to an Air China flight.

I have been following the "poser" thread. While it has been interesting, I thought I would try and balance that with the story of a real hero: Mike Monsoor, Navy Seal, MOH, Silver Star, Bronze Star, purple heart. http://www.navyseals.com/michael-monsoor Excerpt from the citation: Navy Narrative: “On 29 September (2006), Monsoor was part of a sniper overwatch security position in eastern Ramadi, Iraq, with three other SEALs and eight Iraqi soldiers. They were providing overwatch security while joint and combined forces were conducting missions in the area. Ramadi had been a violent and intense area for a very strong and aggressive insurgency for some time. All morning long the overwatch position received harassment fire that had become a typical part of the day for the security team. Around midday, the exterior of the building was struck by a single rocket propelled grenade (RPG), but no injuries to any of the overwatch personnel were sustained. The overwatch couldn’t tell where the RPG came from and didn’t return fire.” “A couple of hours later, an insurgency fighter closed on the overwatch position and threw a fragment grenade into the overwatch position which hit Monsoor in the chest before falling in front of him. Monsoor yelled, “Grenade!” and dropped on top of the grenade prior to it exploding. Monsoor’s body shielded the others from the brunt of the fragmentation blast and two other SEALs were only wounded by the remaining blast.” “One of the key aspects of this incident was the way the overwatch position was structured. There was only one access point for entry or exit and Monsoor was the only one who could have saved himself from harm. Instead, knowing what the outcome would be, he fell on the grenade to save the others from harm. Monsoor and the two injured were evacuated to the combat outpost battalion aid station where Monsoor died approximately 30 minutes after the incident from injuries sustained by the grenade blast.” Also due to Monsoor’s selfless actions, the fourth man of the SEAL squad who was 10-15 feet from the blast, was unhurt. A 28-year-old Lieutenant, who sustained shrapnel wounds to both legs that day, said the following in crediting Monsoor with saving his life: “He never took his eye off the grenade – his only movement was down toward it. He undoubtedly saved mine and the other SEALs’ lives, and we owe him.” As Kristen Scharnberg of the ChicagoTribune summarized in tribute, “The men who were there that day say they could see the options flicker across Michael Mansoor’s face: save himself or save the men he had long considered brothers. He chose them.” ---- To a great hero:

I think you would get arrested for doing that in a Prius.

I just don't understand why people driving these cars don't understand simple emergency procedures. When the car accelerates uncontrollably apply the brake and put the car in neutral. The car will stop. The engine will be revving like hell, but who cares? Once it's stopped you can turn it off. In every one of these runaways I have read about the driver is trying to stop the car by using the brakes against a full throttle engine. Doing this will only overheat the brakes and not stop the car.

Wow! Excellent. Thanks for this. To all the Pedro crews and all the people serving.

Who's dream do you want live? Hers with kids and her mother in NY or yours? You have a winning lottery ticket and you don't want to cash it in?

This award that they gave him at the end of the video looks like a d#ldo. I guess its appropriate.

My previous company worked on some of the s/w and h/w for that plane. It has some great potential, but it is one ugly duck. Looking at the placement of the refueling probe, what is the possibility of getting the occasional extra squirt of fuel down the intake? Would that cause any problems?

Maybe this is a dumb question, but since the Navy is buying this is it going to be carrier qualified? I can see AF leadership getting all worked up if the Navy starts buying and using strictly land-based aircraft.

I have been reading this thread with some interest. I was missile MX person some years ago. Occasionally me or my team members would see minor procedural errors; if no one got hurt and overall security wasn't compromised we would deal with within the team. This meant that the person or person's that caused the problem were appropriately "re-trained" by the team chief. They were also given the grunt work for however long the team chief deemed appropriate to the infraction. It can tell you that the same mistakes never happened twice and everyone on the team trusted each other. If someone made a major mistake something that compromised the safety of the team, or caused a security breech then it would get pushed to the shop chief to handle. While this incident violated security policy, it doesn't appear the codes were compromised or the security of the systems were in danger. It sounds like the chain of command might have been reacting to a perceived security violation and a cover up by the team. If the higher ups thought there was a cover up happening they might have been reacting more harshly to that.

The White needs to send Joe out for some "shovel" diplomacy...

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.