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  1. Well that escalated quickly lol.
  2. Is this the first game you've ever watched in your life? Throwing short and away from a receiver to draw a pass interference flag on the defender when his body gets in the way of the WR getting the pass without the defender even turning around is a classic acceptable move...
  3. I'm 33. I have almost all of my retirement investments going into Vanguard Institutional 500 Index Trust since I was told to just follow S&P 500 and set it and forget it. I get the gambling itch to take some of it out into Fidelity's Brokeragelink where I can invest some in any stock just to learn more investing. I see companies returning much more than the 29% my current portfolio returned last year and I wonder... what if I took 20% of my portfolio and hopped on a band wagon of one of these companies and rode them for a year.. TO THE MOON! But then I get scared because I have no idea what i'm doing.
  4. Coworker participated in a Whataburger taste test of new incoming products. Said he tried one that had pico de gallo with green chili lime salsa that was AWESOME. Said his suggestion was to call it the taco burger. We'll see if it makes it to production.
  5. Between the 15 and 25 second marks you’ll see a white truck drive into the drive way of the home on the top left and never leave. Right in the path of the fire.
  6. The one that went down that road on the top left.
  7. That person in the white truck never left. They dead. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  8. From what I'm reading it's a fully articulated main rotor so it wouldn't be susceptible to mast bumping but if it got in any kind of mode that would cause excessive flapping it could have sliced through the tail boom. But I would assume that if that happened it would fall faster than it did.
  9. If all they had was the ipad then surely its broken or fried and even if it wasn't I doubt they could recover useful data from it. Do those piloting apps store data locally? Do they stream it to the cloud and that data is available somewhere for NTSB to look? Also has the S-76 been known to ever clip off the tailboom with the MR blade in any condition? Is it a fully articulated rotor that could get into a dynamic mode that flaps the blades enough to cause it? This happened in our Bell 525 aircraft in a certain regime but I wouldn't imagine it happen to a production aircraft with plenty of flight hours.
  10. So to answer your question, he did both, first a climb then for whatever reason started a left descending turn. Maybe as others suggested the turn and descent was inadvertent as he got lost in the clouds, spatial disorientation or vertigo. Or maybe because he was already at 2,300 ft while climbing he knew he could only climb 200 more ft before he violated the 2,500 ft max so he started to descend while turning back towards the direction he came from, not knowing that the mountains were hidden in the clouds.
  11. Based on the look of the tail boom it definitely was not wrapped anymore. Also there is video of it hovering in a holding pattern while they received clearance to continue and it was white not black in that grainy video.
  12. How did you not feel the change in direction from right to left even if the RPM's never changed?
  13. That silence after crushing metal sound was eerie as fuck. Man I hope none of the passengers were aware of the danger when the aircraft was turning and descending.
  14. Welp that was the gayest thing I’ve ever exed out of. NTTAWWT.
  15. Damn it I clicked on that stupid link at work. Waiting for HR to come pick me up with a card board box any second now. WTF.
  16. A dive would only make sense if there was a mechanical failure.
  17. On that note, congratulations on being a mind reader. Since he seriously needs the attention and money right now. Luka and his billions aren’t enough. Eye roll.
  18. Jives with what ESPN is saying but they could just be reading the same graph I guess. "Shortly after 9:40 a.m., the helicopter turned again, toward the southeast, and climbed to more than 2,000 feet above sea level. It then descended and crashed into the hillside at about 1,400 feet, according to data from Flightradar24. When it struck the ground, the helicopter was flying at about 160 knots (184 mph) and descending at a rate of more than 4,000 feet per minute (45 mph), the Flightradar24 data showed." https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28572984/helicopter-carrying-kobe-bryant-made-climbing-turn-rapid-dive EDIT: duh they say it in the quote "the FLightradar24 data showed"
  19. It's capacity is 12 passengers so I don't see that as extreme. Now I don't know depending on the DA maybe it was but I haven't heard anyone mentioning that they might have simply not had enough power.
  20. I wonder if pilots are taught to try to turn right or left instead of pull up to go over an obstacle if they are in a situation where they are quickly approaching a mountain side. It seem like the physics would be better to keep your momentum going in a sharp turn and avoid stalling out or losing lift capability.
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