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Reminded me of this.

Gavin Newsom is not going to make the US any better, look at California. He's bay area royalty. He may not have been to Epstein's rape island, but he's still a shady politician. I'm so tired of only having pieces of human excrement as the choices to "lead" the land of the free. I wouldn't trust Newsom with the popcorn maker.

We need a full investigation Epstein may have been killed in federal custody We have the files and promise to release them The client list is literally on my desk We are reviewing the files for imminent release We need to comb the files to protect the victims The FBI actually just gave us even more files which we now need to review NVM we're not releasing the files There actually never was a client list The files are a democrat hoax Are you still asking about the files What even is a file

The USAF would’ve had to redesigned the 767-200 empanage, which it couldn’t afford. Also, the aft part narrows and there’s two pallet positions that would’ve been lost. This has less to do either the cameras and more to do with the boom flight control system (FLCS) when the receiver is too far low and in while in contact.

Great! We will be on the south end of Boeing Plaza with you. The Deuce now arrives Sunday ~1230, after a drop in to the Milwaukee Airshow. The guy flying it is from Fond du Lac.

I guess rape is cool. If Trump raped tweens and had a man murdered, then he can put all of those cheap eggs into his ass.

Everyone is so quick to embrace the suicide theory, however, I flew a sim session with a pilot who was very confused. He tried to shut off a hydraulic pump on the left side of the overhead panel (757) instead of a Pack, on his side. We chalked it up to the fact that he sucked and didn’t have the best reputation (He was a 63 yr old F/O). A few months later I heard he was medically retired and diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Perhaps this was a similar situation. Obviously a thorough investigation will possibly uncover this.

Let me help you, again. Are the herc flight manuals in picture book form?

I wonder why this guy didn't just rent a Piper Arrow and fly all by his lonesome into a mountain?

That's the worst place to be while in contact.

There is always at least one

@grasshopper Truer words have never been spoken.

No idea where this jet was in the movement process such as arrival or departure but let's assume it just pushed back. The crew is listening to the ground push crew (it does not appear anyone was on a headset with the crew but there are Bluetooth set ups now) and ramp or ground control. Unless one of those two entities told the crew that a lunatic was approaching the aircraft with the intent to throw himself into an intake, the crew had 0 visibility under the wing or close to the fuselage and had no idea this guy was there. Hard to react to a threat you never saw.

Multiple decades, multiple platforms, communities, MAJCOMs, and GCCs. Have watched our support functions go down the drain across the board and the burden continue to be delegated to the ones on the pointy end that actually need the most support to do their jobs, take care of their families, and execute the Service’s core missions. But it wasn’t until leading hundreds of enlisted Airmen across scores of AFSCs that I truly felt the “what are we doing here” hit me in the deepest parts where I’d previously managed to keep alive that spark of pride of service. Showing up late, leaving early, doing the bare minimum and often not even that… some not even able to wear their uniforms, no interest in the actual mission (sometimes lip service and often complaining, but no motivation when given opportunities to participate)… an unhealthy focus on unearned awards, decs, inflated EPBs, and “good deals”… Get off the flight line for a tour or two into a job where enlisted outnumber officers by 100:1 and you’ll see. But at the same time I can’t blame “the enlisted”. It’s culture. It starts with accessions and boot camp, tech school, senior enlisted, and the officers that lead them. That is not to say a single officer can make the changes needed — despite higher leadership edicts and Dunning-Kruger-officer platitudinisms to the contrary. That may sound bitter, but I’m not passed over or at risk of not promoting again. It’s watching officer peers promote with half the motivation, half the understanding of the mission, half the time in service (when weekly input/output is considered), and embodying all of the same “enlisted” issues highlighted above, at senior grades, that is crushing… but they checked the boxes. It’s institutional, and maybe we should start there.