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Not the one I attended while young. Nor the Catholic school I attended.

Not the one I attended for some time. The school had the first grade class, the second grade class, the third grade class, etc...no bell system or classroom rotation. A good book about it is "The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern...

There is an argument that that has been the government and corporate interests' goal since the late 1800s. That was why the public education system became based off of the Prussian system, which was excellent at producing soldiers and employees, and why the public school system had the bell...

One nitpick, but the Constitution doesn't grant anything as far as natural rights go, it protects what are pre-existing rights. The Founders themselves saw the Bill of Rights as redundant even, because the Constitution doesn't grant the Federal government the power to infringe upon such rights...

What was the Captain shooting at if he is qualifying? Looks like there'd just be water.

Very nice. Note the shark mouth on the tug vehicle as well:) What is that big Air Force plane right under the F-14? Looks like a Douglas of some type?

He was on Jay Leno back in 2012, worth a watch.

I've read some airlines are pushing to move to single pilots in the cabin, particularly in Europe ironically. I don't know anything about piloting airliners, but that seems rather frightening, I mean what if the pilot had a heart attack or something? Are my concerns justified or would that be an...

Just arrived in the mail today:):):)

I don't get the picture.

To make sure I am understanding right, you're saying the containers are 8 feet+ thick?

If you haven't seen the film, be sure to at least watch the chariot race from it.

:)

National Review gives it a very bad review: LINK

Why did the CO insist on the students having to fly in such conditions?

Me too. I mean if there is ANY country you don't want to be caught in for such an act, it's Russia. You get to first experience the nice treatment of the Russian authorities then get to go live in the Russian prisons:confused:

Also the Ukrainians aren't out to just murder innocent Russians. Striking a Russian civilian target with no military value makes no sense and if anything would rally the Russian people to continue fighting Ukraine.

The U.S. had apparently warned the Russians that a major Moscow attack was coming weeks ago. The U.S. embassy in Moscow warned Americans there to get out. So the Russians had advance warning.

So genuinely curious about this, but would that be smart though? A problem I could see is the people who do the fighting having no idea how the bureaucracy and planning (like high-level war planning) process works while the people in the bureaucracy have no idea what it is like for the people...

Maybe they have more powerful engines?

Just read up about her, wow. Also watched GroundPounder's video, I mean Holy Crap! Not being a pilot, I wouldn't have known a lot of the bad stuff she was doing without the narration, but I mean even I know if you don't know how to turn on/off your nav system, or any system, in your plane while...

Why would someone be so careless? Do people do that frequently with planes?

A lot of it seemed kind of pointless as far as much of the Russian shelling went, other than that they didn't know what else to do. They were pounding away at Ukrainian cities, turning them into rubble, which historically does not break the will of the people, instead if anything it strengthens...

I just thought regarding the Sherman that it was kind of funny in hindsight, so threw it in there.

This just came out today, apparently Ukraine now has two Blackhawks, having acquired a second one. There is also a crowdfunding campaign ongoing in the Czech Republic to buy Ukraine a third one. Russia claimed it shot down a Ukrainian Blackhawk with twenty troops aboard, but Ukraine says that's...

I'll bet the Germans were quite appreciative of those big stars:

They are especially helpful in winter when it's cold out.

That you flying?:)

Ahh okay. Interestingly, the chart though uses a tryzub (trident) roundel for Ukraine I see. I Googled and the Ukrainian roundel comes up as the one on the Blackhawk, so maybe they changed it?

I understand that, my point was why put the "bullseye" on the engine? Or if putting it there, why not like a Ukrainian flag shape? That dot just looks like a way of saying to the enemy, "Aim here."

This is about a year old, but since the U.S. won't sell any Black Hawks to Ukraine, they crowd funded via the Internet and went and bought a privately-owned one: It is an older model one, built in 1980, but then modified for civilian use by the private firm, and now owned by the Ukrainians...

Riding on abandoned lines or lines you get special permission to I think is fine, but restricted areas, that's not right.

Slight tangent, not meaning to derail the thread, but I am a huge fan of steam locomotives and have been reading a lot about them. Don't know if any of y'all are interested, but since some of you say you like trains, there is a hobby called Live Steam, basically scale model versions of real...

Yes, I forgot about the merger but that also was part of it. The great irony is that the best way to increase shareholder value and profits is to focus on the long term, i.e. make a solid product, and the profits will follow. But Wall Street gets addicted to its quarterly share price increases.

So Russia apparently is starting to get desperate for vehicles. They have been producing some improvised infantry fighting vehicles consisting of older tanks with the turrets missing for troops to ride in, and now apparently ordering thousands of these from a Chinese company: As you probably...

Yep, but this time the rocket didn't explode and made it to orbit. It spent an hour in orbit performing tests, such as refiring the rocket engines and opening the payload door. They then steered it into reentering the atmosphere but lost contact with it and so it likely burned up. But I'd say...

I watched a documentary that said basically the problem is that back during the 20th century, Boeing had very little to virtually no competition in the big passenger aircraft, so the culture was dominated by the engineers who would build world-class planes. But then as Airbus and other...

I saw one Tiktok video of the cabin where the girl says to a fellow passenger, "I thought we were gonna die," to which the other girl responds, "Me too." It probably happened so fast that it "would" have panicked a lot of people but then people quickly realized the plane wasn't crashing or...

🤡🤡🤡Yes yes, I should have been more clear. I thought if he meant for loosening, "by hand" he meant use a cheater or breaker bar, and then you could use the impact gun to quickly unscrew them.

I've always thought that autopilots right now ought to be a feature that only activates in the event of the driver falling asleep or becoming incapacitated, in which it would then say turn on the flashers and seek to pull the vehicle over or into a parking lot somewhere.

To be clear, when you say start the lug nuts by hand, you mean for loosening or tightening? (I am assuming you mean for when putting them back on, start them by hand).

So I guess the airline version of this happened:

I know Musk doesn't believe in LIDAR and thinks it is an idiotic technology to use. I have no idea regarding whether more successful systems use LIDAR.

Well y'all are pilots and some of you are airline pilots, so I thought maybe you might (shrugs)

So are the airlines just not doing maintenance the way they should?

He says the airfield is rarely used and is used frequently by snowmobilers, and that the Army should not have parked it on the trail. He also sued the airfield's owner for allowing both snowmobilers to use the airfield and the Army. Seems more like it would be the airfield owner's fault, I mean...

Not trying to "call him out," I honestly didn't mean it like that, so if that is how it seems, then I apologize. Was just curious is all. But I do see your point about a DM.

I see

I noticed he seems to have disappeared. Did something happen or he just decided to leave or if it is private, I understand that too.