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I don't think Biff is an Eagle driver

And where did both fatal 737 MAX accidents take place? It was an absolutely stupid software update for the trim to do that and Boeing was dump and culpable, but I don't think its a coincidence that both accidents happened in non-Western airlines despite the fact that the west was likely flying far more Max flights.

Could be flaps instead of the gear. India to London with a full pax load is going to be at or close to max weight, so the engines might not be able to overcome an early flap retraction, especially if the flying pilot didn't immediately go max thrust. That or fuel contamination are probably the two most logical possibilities I've heard so far.

I don't see the RAT deployed, did someone else see it in the video? Tough to tell from a cell phone video like that. If it were a dual engine failure or significant electrical issue, then it should deploy automatically. Also deploying it is the second step on the dual engine fail memory item. Flaps 5 is the norm. Strange that the gear is still down, but if they had a dual engine loss shortly after liftoff then they probably aren't thinking much about the gear.

Shit talking in baseball actually makes more sense to me than in football. Talk too much in football and the guy might get some extra anger strength and make you pay. Baseball is 90% mental, so you get inside their nugget, you might get an advantage. Not to say that wouldn't happen in football, but a bit tougher to knock a lineman out of his game by talking smack.

Man, that's some serious stupidity there. First of all, carrying a gun in the back pocket of your jeans and obviously sticking out enough for someone to not only see it but easily grab it? And then following that person when they are now armed and you're not? The dude gave enough intent by shoving him and pointing the gun at him to show he obviously wasn't giving it back. Call it a lesson learned and move on.

No, but if you get one, please let us know. That looks awesome and I want one, although I could see the 9mm not generating enough gas to cycle properly. Have a WWII original, but I generally try not to shoot those guns much, more of the safe queens...

It is good for a single squadron guard base airspace, but hardly one of the largest complexes in the US and I think it'll show itself to be inadequate for the EX. I think the MOA is only like 40 miles wide which will be a problem and unless they can move some of the jetways the high altitude is too short for a long look. Just off the top of the nugget of airspaces I've used that I'm pretty sure are considerably larger: the UTTR, NTTR, San Diego west coast complex, Edwards, basically the entire East Coast from Boston to Orlando, Berry Goldwater, Holloman, Gulf Coast, Hawaii, and Alaska. And many of those airspaces are multiple times larger than Alpena and just the one's I've used, I'm sure there are more. Overall the Alpena complex is great for A-10s, ok for F-16s, but hardly what the EX needs.

Having flown both with and without a WSO, I'd take the extra gas instead.

Pretty much the entire west coast of Korea is a military training area surface to 50k if I recall correctly. Going direct would have flown through almost the entire thing.

They have been untouchable (STS) for the last 4 years and thought that immunity would continue indefinitely.

@SurelySerious Dude, up to this post you have 7 of the 9 posts on this page. I suggest an internet break. And with that suggestion, I'm done with this thread. Memes and movie quotes are great in the WTF and Boobs and beer threads but are absurdly shallow and usually grossly inaccurate for actual conversations. Now, I'm off to go buy more stocks since the sale keeps getting better.

This whole "no taxation without representation" thing seems to be extraordinarily poorly thought through. The President is an elected official representing the entire US, so if he decides to implement tariffs, what part of that is "without representation"? There are plenty of things to complain about with tariffs, but trying to claim that it is taxation without representation seems to me to be willful ignorance of the worst type. I'm very much on the fence with the tariffs overall. The automatic reciprocal tariffs seem to be a no brainier and I'm mildly surprised that isn't a continual policy regardless of who is in power. One interesting take I read that I think is very possible, is that this is attempt to reign in our national debt. A significant amount of our debt comes up for payment or refinance next year and with interest rates higher than they've been since our debt skyrocketed, it is only going to get worse. One way the President can influence interest rates is economic stability. Instability drives more investors to hedge their money in T-bills, which will drive down their rate, which will drive down interest rates. At the same time the tariffs will likely increase production at home which will eventually drive economic growth which will increase the tax collected. Certainly a gamble if that is the play but not out of line with Trump's past actions. The flip side of the coin is we must find ways to reduce our spending and very few seem to be genuinely interested in that. DOGE has fixed some leaky faucets that needed to be fixed, but meanwhile we have a couple spigots out back that are on full blast.

Stocks are on sale, time to buy!

Yes, but the emergency exit lights switch is guarded and we turn that on and off every flight. While important, I'd say that switch is less important in flight than some others that are not guarded.