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Cruz, not Crus; but we would have accepted "Cruiser" as well! At this point I think the R's best bet would be a Rubio/DeSantis ticket if they could make that happen! Trump needs to be marginalized if there is any chance of a Red recovery in 2028! The mid-terms have proven he is not the demigod he thinks he is! As for Texas, Tuesday was a bit of a shock but not surprising with all the immigration (i.e., Mexico, California, etc.) that has been going on here for the past decade. I wasn't a fan of putting Paxton up (too much luggage), and the Lt Governor Dan Patrick was too far off the reservation. Abbott did great things for the state and I thought he'd survive, but the border efforts during the Biden years and supporting ICE did him in. I guess he can now join this crowd!
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More worrisome is the new Congress not only re-invoking the tax but indexing it to inflation, which would be roughly $4,700-4,900 in 2026 dollars!! The initial $200 tax's "real value" has fallen by about 95-96% since 1934 due to inflation. That is why legal scholars argue the NFA has evolved from a substantial tax-and-registration scheme into primarily a registration and regulatory system!
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Concur, if the Republicans want a chance, they need to push Rubio to the front of the line. Vance won't win it in 2028! They have two years to figure that out, will they learn from their mistakes?
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Stolen from social media... The NTSB held its second and final on scene media briefing regarding N722BD this afternoon. The agency says it recovered the aircraft’s left elevator in three pieces between 1.3 and 3.8 miles from the crash site. Most likely, it broke off at FL150-250 due to stress from the overspeed dive. ie, damaged during the dive, not damage that caused the dive. The following is from a pilot who flew the Lear 60 for over 15 years. "“We always fly in ridiculous cold temperatures.” “Usually you get the bad ice when the temperatures are like 0 to negative 20. Believe it or not, there's a point where it gets too cold for ice. At negative 40, you pretty much can't get ice. Besides that, the airplane is equipped with hot wings and hot tail.” “I flew the Lear 60 for like 15 years. It's a no joke airplane and probably the most dangerous airplane I've ever flown. It has a super critical wing. The airflow has to be perfect. When it gets into rough air and turbulence, it will easily stall. It has stalled on me at 41,000 feet just because we got into some turbulence. (On the way to Palm Beach as a matter of fact. ) we recovered and got her flying again around 30,000 ft. Scary But here's the problem. This airplane has a terrible coffin corner. (At high altitudes) what that means is, you fly in a really narrow window where if you lose 20 knots, it stalls. And if you gain 20 knots, it goes into overspeed. The air goes supersonic over the wing and it goes into a high speed stall, or worse, a Mach tuck. So if you stall, the normal recovery is to push the yoke forward to lower the nose and gain air speed again. At low altitude, you can push really hard and recover quickly. But in the 60... if you push hard, it will gain air speed and go into a high speed stall, it doesn't take much. It's very sensitive. The 60 has super short wings that don't make much lift. So then you high speed stall, and the computer is yelling at you... OVERSPEED! So then you pull back and enter a low speed stall. And you go back and forth trying to keep it in the air speed window. This whole thing is pretty scary. And you should recover basically by using your finger tips using super small corrections. You can't over do it. If you try to muscle the recovery, she gets mad and will become unrecoverable. If she enters a mach tuck. You're done.” “I taught the Lear 60 to other pilots and mentored them. I told them... this airplane has a soul and it's trying to kill you. Do not ever try to top the weather. Don't go over a thunderstorm. Go around it. If it means a half hour longer, then do it. Going over the thunderstorm will go into turbulence that you might not recover from. These pilots went right over a thunderstorm. I think it stalled which caused them to drop down into the thunderstorm and ended up in mach tuck. They picked up so much speed that it ripped off the horizontal stabilizer. At that point... chuck Yeager can't fix it. These same pilots did something similar a couple months ago. ATC got mad at them. They poked the bear one too many times. This is not a beginner airplane."
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Video by Co-Pilot Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras posted to her TikTok, 9/2/26, 1 month before her final flight in the jet that crashed near West Palm Beach, FL, 11/1/26.210K views · 9K reactions Video by Co-Pilot Nathalia Gadelha, posted to her TikTok, 9 2 26, 1 month before her final flight in the jet that crashed near West.mp4The co-pilot has been identified by her family as 20-year-old Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, who began flying lessons at just 14. By 17, she had earned her private pilot’s license while attending West Boca Raton High School. Per her family, she was so proud to earn her wings before getting her driver’s license. Her love of aviation started young, and she was determined to turn that passion into a career flying commercial airliners. Rest in peace.
Who knows, but after 50+ years as a Gator, nothing surprises me anymore... 😞😞😞Also, too good not to share!!
Found her! (And I've already called 'dibs' on her!!)
My mother immigrated from Germany after marrying my father, and she deliberately didn't teach us (her kids) German because she felt we were Americans and needed to speak English. I did learn the language after growing up and being stationed there, but it would have helped to have done so at a much earlier age. Still, I appreciate the fact that during her time (the 1950s), may immigrants felt the importance of integrating into American society. Much like the military, you join it, it doesn't join you! By the way, I was also born in Germany and still had to meet with an immigration judge when I first came to this country in 1966. I was only three at the time, but my mother said I had to speak with him and court officials without her present. I have no memory of this (I was 3), but it shows what a different time it was then!
