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WTF is a quarter zip?
A quarter Asian?
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re: My culture is not your newest trend. AA community engaging in cultural appropriation.
Posted by AUTimbo on 11/24/25 at 5:35 am to TexasTiger89
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We know they didn’t invent tipping.
Solid.
Gold.
Right.
Here.
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FAA records show maintenance workers repaired a crack on the crashed UPS plane’s left engine pylon in 2019.
If it was a skin crack on the panels covering the pylon frame that’s not unheard of.
Depending on the length of the skin crack and location it’s not abnormal to stop drill the ends of a skin crack to stop/slow it’s progression. We used to locate the ends with UT/EC inspection for repair guys. Depending on the location you would be surprised how far the manufacturers manuals would allow repeated stop-drilling.
Now if we’re talking about internal frame components then that’s a completely different kettle of fish.
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the engine separating by itself isn't catastrophic, if it somehow flew up into the #2 engine, it's all over, haven't really dug into this one to see if that's what happened
Exactly
If #2 FOD’d out from the seperation debris that poor flight crew never stood a chance.
Looked to me like the bird, while on fire was destined to crash, the worst issue during decent was striking those powerlines while leaking fuel from the wings. On the videos it looked like the fireball occurred after that part of the crash and not the impending ground impact
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If Joe Diffie, Tracy Lawrence and Brad Paisley had a kid, it would be Zach.
You left out his real dad, Alan Jackson.
Or so the rumor goes…
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I think Arkady has until February 27th to sell 3.1 million shares. I think he has the incentive to see those shares go up in value.
This is just one of many reasons I plan on seeing this through. He didn’t sell when we were at 142, so he must truly feel great things are on yhe horizon.
Of course he may wish he had excercised those options at 140- plus come late Feb. But we still have over three months to see if his logic was the right move. Time will tell
re: Today marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Ia Drang Valley...
Posted by AUTimbo on 11/14/25 at 8:26 am to RollTide1987
My Pop was Air Cav in Nam 68-69’……..”Ruthless Riders”
His unit went into the IDV several times during his tour.
Said of all the places they went, that one gave him the creeps more than all the others combined.
His unit went into the IDV several times during his tour.
Said of all the places they went, that one gave him the creeps more than all the others combined.
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A few years ago some guy was busted fricking horses at the stables.
Say it isn’t soo Willlbuurrrr
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I feel like I invested in a god damn penny stock. Most of us were in options and got wrecked.
I truly feel for my Nebius crew that got the rug pulled out from them. I am new to this and am trying to learn through you fellas and would have been right there with you if playing that game. Hurts bad enough from watching NBIS fall as it did because it’s my numero uno position.
But as they say, it’s always darkest before the dawn.
To my Nebius bro’s I have adapted/modified a few lines from a classic flick to help us through this rough patch…
“Today is not just any Friday, but the day when we Nebiods declared as one voice
WE WILL NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT
WE WILL NOT VANISH WITHOUT A FIGHT
WE’RE GOING TO TRADE ON
WE’RE GOING TO SURVIVE
TODAY….WE CELEBRATE OUR
DIVERSIFICATION DAY!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry….best I could do this early in the morning. ;)
re: Nebius - NBIS - AI Infrastructure Company [Q3 EARNINGS 11/11]
Posted by AUTimbo on 11/12/25 at 1:24 pm to Tedorgeron
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Wonder how IT golf game is going
Matters not. Dude could be five strokes up with four to play and still finish three under.
I imagine he probably needs two carts when he plays, one for him and the other for his “boys”.
I’m holding my 1,200 shares and even bought another hunnerd today….just feel this whole AI bubble push by the evil unknown forces has about run it’s course and reality will swing us back on our path to Financial Valhalla.
Soon we’ll be quoting Richard Dreyfuss from “Let It Ride”
Did I WIN? SON-OF-A-BITCH! GOD LIKES ME! HE REALLY, REALLY, LIKES ME! WHAT A DAY! WHAT A FABULOUS DAY!
;)
re: Veterans are you going to claim any freebies Tuesday
Posted by AUTimbo on 11/10/25 at 5:45 am to F1y0n7h3W4LL
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Do you have to bring your DD214?
I used to but the last few years I get fewer questions walking in with a couple of claymores draped around my neck.
Also love the look on the non-vets faces when I break out thr Kbar to cut my burger in half…. good stuff. ;)
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Just curious, were you a pro supr in the Air Force?
Nope, just a regular old NDI/NDT troop during my time. Got out, finished my degree and put in to go back in through OCS but had just exceeded the entry age after it shifted back down. Just bad timing
Worked at a 130 depot facility in Saudi and later with P&W. Still in quality but have always.kept up with accident investigations since everything we ever stamped in aerospace NDT we are potentially liable for for thirty years. Thus have an invested interest in all aviation related incidents.
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we've been using something similar for almost 30 years
Good to know. I assumed they probably did but you know what they say about assuming
Got into a heated conversation with a light colonel once over getting a recheck (red cap) on a 111 about to taxi out for it’s sortie. Colonel tells me we can get that check sample when the bird gets back. I tell him this bird may take off but in my professional opinion it won’t make it back here to land. He hangs up, check sample comes in 5 mins later and its going WAY off the scale. I call for another red cap and the colonel gets three words into his tirade before someone in the background tells him the pilot was shutting the bird down due to vibration from the no. 1 eng.
Colonel mumbles something and hangs up again.
And so the humble life of an under-appreciated quality troop goes on…
;)
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indicated that the aircraft had structural corrosion (rust) in two bilge areas and a cracked stringer near the centre wing upper fuel tank.
Those things aren’t uncommon when a bird goes into depot level repair. They usually have many years and flight hours on them by that time and it’s not uncommon to find alot of broke/cracked/parts with corrosion. Just depends on what the repair orders are for a given part.
If a catastrophic engine failure caused the chain of events it could be numerous things.
I do question if the airlines/companies have some type of S.O.A.P. Program like we had in the Air Force to monitor engine wear. Saves many an engine and/or plane every year in the AF.
Of course being a catastrophic failure it might not have made a difference if it was a turbine/compressor disc that let go. However the pic of the engine lying on the runway didn’t seem to have been missing any stages. And I wouldn’t think a catastrophic engine failure alone would cause the engine to detach. But it’s possible.
I told coworkers yesterday I believe whatever happened FOD’d out number two on the tail, which left them heavy AND minus 66% of their thrust power on TO, which is an incredibly worst case scenario for that aircrew.
re: Post WW2 What-if Scenario
Posted by AUTimbo on 11/6/25 at 5:27 am to SoFla Tideroller
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If (and it's a mighty big IF) the US had the social and political will, America would have handled the Russkies pretty easily.
This
The Soviets had no capable air force to stop our heavy bombers from eradicating their troops, their supplies/supply lines and their war machinery making abilities.
We would have rained down terror on them using non-atomic bombs and they would have had to capitulate or face near total destruction.
Plus we had “The Bomb” as an ace in the hole
Air Disasters had an episode in 2014 of AA1191 ‘s crash at Chicago’s O’hare.
Engine pylon bolt sheared but issue was caused by ground maintenance short-cuts used to mount the engine.
Would not be surprised if similiar situation caused this. NTSB will get to the bottom of this eventually.
Engine pylon bolt sheared but issue was caused by ground maintenance short-cuts used to mount the engine.
Would not be surprised if similiar situation caused this. NTSB will get to the bottom of this eventually.
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Repeat of AA191?
Good call
Video shows front of wing on fire. If engine pylon attach points give the engine on the UPS plane most likely did the same thing....detached and thrust propelled it up and over the wing tearing the front of the wing and starting a fire in the damaged area. As big as the flames were it most likely tore open part of the left wing fuel tanks and immediately became uncontrollable.
Prayers to all those poor souls affected by this tragedy
On second thought though a good knuckle-baller would absolutely rule and be unhittanle
re: Saudi Arabia Unveils World’s First Sky Stadium
Posted by AUTimbo on 10/27/25 at 4:00 pm to fr33manator
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Baseball would be fricked up there. With homeruns
Eh, I’ve hit some dingers in slow pitch softball over there when I worked in Jeddah, so it’s doable.
Problem is if they build it in Jeddah the moisture from the Red Sea and that heat lead to extremely high humidity, which makes any leather covered ball (basebsll, softball) slick as snail chit. Hard to throw accurately when trying to bear down on it, so baseball pitching would be erratic to say the least.
Now if they built it in Riyadh that would be a different story…minimal humidity.
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I think what would scare the shite out of me would be why the otter wants out of the water so badly..
THIS is the correct take on her predicament
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The Texas Gulf Coast is a 367 mile stretch of coastline along the Gulf of Mexico
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The Gulf (west) coast of Florida measures 770 miles
Florida says hold my beer
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