BFM this

Or just give them a call. Their number should be in the FCG.

Huh...never would have guessed.

Wow, stubborn motor. Marines had something similar about 20yrs ago in a unit I was in. IIRC (second hand, wasn't on board the plane) one blade tossed itself about a half mile away, and the rest of the hub shelled itself, peppering the cockpit with fragments.

Correct

We'd be well served if a few more CCs took cue.

Irregardless (Siri auto-completed, btw), if the word gets used enough, it will gain normalcy. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/normalcy https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless

Sad part is that he's diluted his brand by his own actions. He had an enviable pile of credibility: here, on his own site, social media, all of it. But then again, he wasn't the first down that road.

Twoop

I certainly wasn't laughing at your analysis. The Schadenfreude is another thing I grew up in Illinois. The Daleys, Madigans, Vrdolyak, Braun. Blajogevich and Obama were outliers on the same bell curve of players. Illinois is reaping what has been sown over the decades. Racing toward pairity with its sister city Detroit. That Puerto Rico is in a much better situation is not surprising at all. At leas they have a thriving tourism industry to milk. That's not going away anytime soon.

I already put money down on our new swimming pool

I'm not sure y'all are tracking. There's occasional thousandaires elected to congress. They almost invariably leave as millionaires. Remember the STOCK act? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

This made me laugh.

All very logical and well put. But not how it's going to play out I'm afraid. Management wants their dancing bear center stage, pronto. At least that's the drumbeats I'm hearing. We'll see.

It's not just about the money. Money is in line with the rest of the issues plaguing this job. Money is just the easiest, most tangible, identifiable symptom of a broader malaise. My thesis is this: if there was a way to graph other QoL (home and work) indicators, they would roughly correlate. We are paid substantially less than we were roughly twenty years ago, in two specific categories: 1) Flight pay 2) ACP Both of those pays have remained stagnant to inflation for over two decades. $1k / $35k doesn't nearly cover the spread. If those two pays were at least adjusted for inflation, the remaining issues would at least change in perspective. But until that happens, we are essentially negotiating low cost items. Pushing sleeves up? Ancillary duties? Fewer/clickable CBTs? These are just low/no cost gimmes.

Interns

Having a $4m preschooler at home, I can say that it's a tough figure to peg down on an individual basis, but cannot be ignored regardless.

Loss of Clock/Loss of Data doesn't count.

Guaranteed that pic shows up at his naming.

Curmudgeon, if it pleases the court

Not necessarily a good idea, just a likely driver for the concept. ...that never left the drawing board But I'm just guessing

Single option transport of the entire STS kit and kaboodle? SRBs, EFT, and orbiter.

Pretty sure this is trolling. This is the only post, (not source), where I've seen this uttered.

Yeah, how about four decades with the same engine, countless requests for a new engine, one or two go aheads only to have the funding "redirected" What if.

You're half right it would cost you at least $100K to sell your wife

Maybe you haven't been to Austin lately...