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2 minutes ago, TroutDog said:
Thought I read that somewhere this morning. That’s why I said I believe. Maybe not???It was on the road.
Abbott Road.
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Wow.
Congrats.
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Very sorry.
Been there.
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32 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:
I had a friend who delivered the CE. I delivered the Buffalo News and the Batavia daily. I thought he was crazy for having to get up so early for his route.
Awe come on.
I delivered it for three years.
Never missed a day.
Set me up as an early riser for the rest of life.
Good things happen before 8 AM.
Bad things after 9PM.
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He was O for the afternoon.
Hopefully, an anomaly.
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3 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:
I edited the title. I agree it could have gone a different way! Does anyone know if this required approval from the Pegulas?
Pegulas don't control the airspace.
What it requires is that they get out of there before game time.
Flying drones or other aircraft over stadiums is prohibited.
I expect there will be a network replay of it, but they will be gone by noon.
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4 minutes ago, Fan in Chicago said:
Thats some story. Glad the broken ribs didn't puncture the variety of organs underneath.
No puncture of the thoracic cavity, thank goodness.
Next time you see a toad hiding under a log or piece of wood and wonder how it stays alive while the thing over it is being walked on, notice its posture and ability to get real "flat."
Worked for me.
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38 minutes ago, aristocrat said:
jesus christ. do you still have the tractor?
We made our peace, but got rid of the Kubota for a 50hp Deere last year.
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1 minute ago, Simon said:
Oh, I'm asking.
You can ignore me and I won't inquire further, but you wouldn't respect me if I didn't try.....
I was trying to repair a very small hydraulic fluid leak under a 45hp tractor that weighed about 4000 pounds and had a 500 pound mower attached to the back.
I was underneath and tightening a bolt when the wrench slipped and hit the mechanical link from the foot pedal to the hydrostatic transmission, and the tractor started forward, jumping a chock I had in front of it.. The turf tire grabbed my shirt sleeve in about a tenth of a second and there was no time to get out.
Tractor ran over my chest with me face down, luckily in an area of our landscaping that had about thee inches of mulch, so it compressed a bit, probably saving my life. Got all the ribs on the right side, and all but three on the left.
Got up, got the tractor shut down, came in and sat on the couch and my wife came in the room and told me I looked horrible. I told her what happened and she drove me to the hospital.
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7 hours ago, Augie said:
I think this is getting WAY too much attention. Who amongst us has NOT deflated the lung of an NFL QB minutes before a game? 🤷♂️
No collapsed lung, but otherwise related.
I hold, (I was told), the University of Virginia Medical Center record for most broken ribs and surviving.
21 of the human allotment of 24 broken.
Only five required titanium patches.
Don't ask.
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Simply a transcendent player.
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On 8/17/2020 at 6:31 PM, sherpa said:
Barring a turnover, first drive against the Jets is a touchdown.
We go from there.
Did I call this?
Turnover and touchdown.
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Dress be damned, and since we're talking Paris, Musee D'orsay > than the Louvre.
Highly recommend.
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1 hour ago, TBBills Fan said:
Josh, we Billieve in you, lets get it done!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
"Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea!
Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,
Are all with thee, -are all with thee!"-
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The game within the game.
I want the Bills offense to be really dominant tomorrow, and I want to see the destruction of the two people I despise most in the NFL.
A. Henry Anderson.
Charge: Trying to take out Hauschka with an incredibly cheap shot.
Trying to end Josh Allen's year and maybe his career by a pathetic crawling attempt to mush ligaments.
B. Gregg Williams.
Charge: A dirty, slimy punk of a personality who is the the lowest human being in the NFL, but has turned down countless jobs, including devising the successful immunization that will end the Covid crisis.
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Nope.
Its just an observation, and if the Bills get up by 16 this week, I'm not going to be worried.
But still......maybe a little.
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52 minutes ago, Stank_Nasty said:
Last year the jets became the ONLY team in nfl history to lose to 2 different teams entering a game at 0-7 or worse(0-7 fins and 0-11 bengals). Darnold was the starter for both of those games.
Can't say for sure, but I'd bet the Bills were the first team in history to begin their season and end their season in games where a 16-0 score was lost by the team up by 16.
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27 minutes ago, Chandler#81 said:
um, yes you do. You hijacked the Normandy Invasion thread with wildly inaccurate “corrections”. It’s what you do.
No worries. We accept you anyway.
And, Hey! Thanks for the rides on your boats. We Jarheads appreciate you. Your Corpsmen too! Pilots? Not so much, no..
#MarineAviation
I didn't hijack any thread, and I have no interest in being "accepted."
Your reaction was ill informed and silly.
The fact is that what has been claimed is not only inaccurate, but impossible.
Completely, physically impossible.
I am extremely informed on what happened that day, and that didn't happen.
Your's is a really stupid post, as was your reaction to my suggestion that what happened on June 6 1944 was not perfect.
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36 minutes ago, Nextmanup said:
Yeah, this is going to turn into an argument.
Your tone is analogous to trying to explain a complex subject to an 8 year old; it's kind of insulting.
But whatever.
You don't have to be a fighter pilot to understand physics.
Anyway, thanks for your input.
You are correct.
You don't have to be a whatever to understand whatever.
The problem for the scrambled airplanes that day was identifying hostiles which were large, easily identified targets.
To do that, you fly at an intermediate altitude and turn you air to air radar on.
You certainly don't fly at mach at 100', guaranteeing worthless radar returns.
The F-16 doesn't have a particularly good air to air radar. It's better for ground stuff.
All of the folks who flew that day provided testimony.
That aside, there is no possible way one would fly at mach at 100' in that area.
Not only would you be worthless to the mission, you wouldn't survive, because you couldn't survive the turn radius, after destroying every window in every building within 10 miles.
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26 minutes ago, Nextmanup said:
Well, I will probably sound like a jerk as you have mentioned you are an ex Naval aviator and I am not.
But you don't need to play the "I know everything" card, man.
Believe me, the F-16 was going supersonic.Of course it makes sense. The pentagon had already been hit, and this plane was clearly scrambled, from Andrews in MD (20 seconds away flight time?) to intercept the NEXT plane, if there was one.
And at that time the plane that went down in PA was still flying.
The F-16 was literally defending where all the juicy targets are around the Mall in DC. Pentagon/airport/White House, Capitol Bldg. etc.
I have been at about 10,000 air shows in my life and know what an F-16, or F-15, or F-18, or F-4 (in the good old days) looks like going just under the sound barrier at like 600 knots or whatever those guys like to fly at during peace time air shows on a high speed pass.
This F-16 was getting to the target zone as fast as he could, and LOW over the river.
I was on the 8th floor; he was nearly at our height.F-16 has plenty of horsepower to go supersonic at sea level.
I'm curious: since you are omniscient, what shook a 10 story office building like an earth quake just an F-16 flew by if not a sonic boom?
I have never claimed to be "omniscient," nor ever play the "I know everything card," per your claim.
I do know what was done that day, and I do understand what happened.
Without stretching this into an argument, what you observed was not supersonic flight at 100' over that area.
To do so would be analogous to driving 70 mph in your garage.
Makes no sense, would not be survivable, and didn't happen.
The F-16's were scrambled from Langley, not Andrews, per you claim.
Andrews had no alert ready airplanes at that time.
Again, I am uncomfortable pointing these assumptions wrong, but what you are saying did not happen.
It is physically impossible to fly at mach, or anything approaching mach, at 100' in that area, and survive.
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22 minutes ago, Nextmanup said:
I was less than a mile away from the Pentagon that day, working in Crystal City.
I was looking out the window with a pack of colleagues and a single F-16 went tear assing by, at maybe 100 feet above the Potomac....making a SONIC BOOM.
It was just a sonic boom.
Not to quibble, but whatever you heard was not a sonic boom.
Makes no tactical sense to do that, and nobody went supersonic in that area that day.
Late edit.....
If someone flew supersonic at the altitude you describe, there would have been no windows left in Crystal City.
I've heard and cased them, but fortunately, legally.
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I was flying a 767 at the time it happened. I was a check captain checking out a new first officer. Left San Francisco at 6 local.
I had just finished the level off PA announcement, the "keep your seatbelts fastened" PA.
Got a message on the data link printer from the company. I'll never forget what it said:
"Numerous cockpit incursions. do not allow any cockpit entry."
A few minutes later, got another one.
"Suggest lock down the cockpit. Defend at all cost. Suggest divert."
Went back to San Francisco at max mach and landed, followed down the runway by about twenty vehicles chasing us.
Arriving at the gate, about ten guys standing outside on the ramp with automatic weapons.
Got in the terminal and KGO camera crew was running down the concourse at me as I tried to get to a phone to call my wife and tell her I was OK, since all she knew was that I would be flying transcons all week checking out new guys from NY to the west coast.
Told the camera guys to get the f'in camera out of my face, which they did.
Very long story, on a very long day, but having flown American 77 for the two years prior to this, I knew I'd know the folks on that airplane that hit the Pentagon.
Worst day of my life.
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The forecast for night time lows in Las Vegas for the next seven days is in the mid 60's, with two nights at 59.
I've spent many an night there, and in the summer, it certainly does not get cold.
As with everywhere else, in the evening the temp drops towards the atmospheric dew point. The desert has a much lower dew point, but it certainly isn't "cold," except during cold months,
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Pulled pork.
Brine Thurs-Friday.
In rub Fri- Sat.
On at 225 in my Primo at 11pm Sat night.
Done by 11:30 Sun morning.
Wrapped and in the cooler for 1.5 hour rest.
Kids arrive Sunday at 12:45.
Plates out at 1.
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HUGE GAME TONIGHT-Denver Broncos @ New York Jets
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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The faster somebody knocks the extra g out of Gregg, the better.
The single biggest punk and slime in the NFL.
All players should beware of him.
Evidence on display last night for all to see.