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sherpa

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  1. Many, many weeks at Fallon as an aggressor, after having dropped tons of bombs and strafing their targets. I was about 40 miles from there on 9-11 as an airline guy when we got the message of the issue. My plan was to land there if we had an attempt, but made it back to San Francisco.
  2. If interested, the best Blue Angels video from their perspective ever. It was from a final practice at El Centro Ca. The A4 was a better airshow airplane than the F-18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5PqVeex4QU
  3. They talked about it, but I'm certain he was joking. One would never do a 7g pull with a novice in the back, and possibly break his neck. Neither were wearing g suits, as the Blues never do, but 7 would black out anybody not trained and ready for it. It is simply not possible to not black out at 7, actually 5 for most people. The most they do is 4 on these VIP rides. Pilot.
  4. I did it 312 times. These VIP things they do with Blue Angel 7 are pretty calm events, but still a nice way to spend an hour on a beautiful afternoon. You can clearly see his anxiety at the beginning, and his pleasure having done so at the end.
  5. I don't think it matters either, at least not this early. What did matter, and was a harbinger of things to come, was from Jets late training camp last year when during a scrimmage, their two defense dominated their one offense, and their two offense dominated their one defense. That was an eyebrow raiser, and foretold a very difficult September and October.
  6. It's 3750 miles by air to Madrid with a six hour time difference. It's 2125 to Seattle with a three hour time difference. Additionally, because of the rules of the North Atlantic Track System, there are time restrictions to be followed when going east and when coming back. If not in those time slots, a longer route must be flown, or non optimum altitudes used, require more time. Of course they fly charters, but Madrid is more of an issue than London.
  7. Certain places are better for certain things. I'd rather eat olives in Madrid, and I'd rather watch the Bills in Orchard Park.
  8. There are lots of people who want to make money off of this kind of stuff. The "ex UFO investigator ," Luis Elizondo, is certainly one of them. Not a believer.
  9. OJ Simpson. There was simply no player more physically capable in his first years, and those were largely wasted. He was on a different planet.
  10. Because stock is ownership. If you issue more stock, you dilute the value of existing shares, thus reducing their value. Stock issuance dilutes value, stock buybacks enhance it.
  11. Vinyl bird netting is incredibly cheap. I have over a quarter mile of it in my vineyard. You can protect those peas and beans for less than $20.
  12. I'd go with the late drive against Arizona. Great thread, by the way.
  13. Tough to say. The slat damage can be repaired, but the wing spars, the spanwise structural components that run perpendicular to the fuselage will be X-rayed to assess non visible damage. If you hit something and you're not on the yellow line you're screwed. If you hit something and you're on the yellow line, you're screwed. But if you hit something, get on the yellow line. They were on the yellow line. Can't see the wing tip from the cockpit. The 777, a much bigger airplane, has cameras mounted on the horizontal stabilizer that you could display and see the nose and main landing gear because of the difficulty of taxiing. We weren't supposed to view it in flight, but I always did. It showed the immediate contrail formation behind the engines at cruise.
  14. Tora Tora Tora. Doesn't give me a good a good feeling.
  15. Knock off the wacky huge loss sacks and fumbles. Put the ball in the receivers hands where they don't have to break stride, reach too far, and otherwise disrupt their ability to run after catch. Thankfully, he seems to know that, as has mentioned it as an offseason goal, but it is an accuracy thing. That's one of the things about Brady. He puts it right on the numbers in the receiver's stride. Josh doesn't, but he usually gets it there. Weird thing, he usually nails the sideline routes like nobody I've seen.
  16. I heard an interview with Thomas last year or so about that song. He said that in order to get the nod to do it, Bacharach and David told him to sing it without any "styling" input. Just do the song, or we'll get somebody else.
  17. BJ gone? I just can't help believin'.
  18. Very cool, and timely, as covid has spiked gardening interest.
  19. Dak could have used a little "arm arrogance" when he threw that pitiful one hop swing pass against us on the fourth and goal Thanksgiving pass. A beauty that.
  20. Not to weaken the astrophysicist's argument, but the Russians and Chinese already know a great deal about our F-18's radar and FLIR systems. They shadow aircraft carriers and have been for decades. It would far more valuable an intel "get" to find out they were operating drones off the SOCAL coast.
  21. You're my aunt! Finally, after all these years, I found you.
  22. James Harris, ex Bill, could get it there. Just always didn't know where "there" was. Kind of like a SCUD missile. Always get airborne, just not sure where it lands.
  23. I have a slightly different opinion. The Bills offense benefits immensely from two components, and it explains a lot of long third down conversions which we've we've all seen and enjoyed, especially since the Thanksgiving Dallas game. First component is Allen getting out of the pocket and buying time towards the sideline. Second is the receivers recognizing the scramble drill and getting open when the initial timing of the play is disrupted. I think the Bills are extremely good at the scramble drill passing offense, and especially Diggs and Beasley. Josh gets them the ball because he has the ability to throw from many arm angles, even if his balls aren't super accurate. So far, works for us.
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