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retread

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  1. 100% redneck after the fight
  2. Makes you wonder what the world will look like in 5-10 years. With nukes, we'll always be relevant, but if we continue to coddle dictators and alienate allies, it will make for a very dangerous world.
  3. You have to remember that Antifa threw some milkshakes that one time.
  4. Russian hacking skills are 4 years more advanced than the last Presidential election. Like triple posted in another thread, there are also other govts. that also have the ability to hack into voting systems without being detected. It's not unreasonable to think that the Russians would take advantage of those resources as well. And we haven't addressed Russian hacking in '16 to any reasonable degree. This is what a foundering country looks like.
  5. I know that we all know this, but it can't be said enough. This sociopath had someone bring the orphaned baby back to the hospital for a photo opp. The same baby who was orphaned in no small part due to the inflammatory, racist, hate-mongering rhetoric of the US President.
  6. If you were in charge of fixing/removing MCAS, how would you handle it? Appreciate all the good insights from the pilots itt.
  7. Somewhere, Elton John is so jealous.
  8. It's amazing. Only on the Cheeto timeline would the media/nation be talking about buying Greenland, as opposed to child-rape rings, impeachment, white supremacist violence, imprisoning children in cages, Saudi Arabia murdering a WaPo journalist, etc. It all just falls by the wayside when he throws new shit on the wall.
  9. A population that mainly just wants to come to the US, contribute, and raise their families. Nah. Messes up the cultural purity. Let's demonize and punish them.
  10. Like ChiTown said earlier, people that do that are often hopped up on something.
  11. They'll fire off one AR for each week in Advent.
  12. Do you think he's a pill popper? What kind?
  13. Interesting read as to why ET302 was flying so fast, and why the pilot's electronic trim commands were short bursts, as opposed to longer durations. https://leehamnews.com/2019/04/05/bjorns-corner-et302-crash-report-the-first-analysis/
  14. Gross
  15. Boeing personnel were authorized to work on behalf of the FAA. Tasks were divided up. As the MCAS was tweaked on simulators, the engineers adjusted the maximum rotation of the stabilizer. Most engineers thought it was 0.6 degrees. Turns out, MCAS had been set up to be able to move the stabilizer 2.5 degrees each time. It was also authorized to actuate multiple times. That info was not included in the System Safety Analysis submitted for the MAX's final approval. IIRC, it's supposed to include everything that is changed. "After the Lion Air Flight 610 crash, Boeing for the first time provided to airlines details about MCAS. Boeing’s bulletin to the airlines stated that the limit of MCAS’s command was 2.5 degrees. That number was new to FAA engineers who had seen 0.6 degrees in the safety assessment. The FAA believed the airplane was designed to the 0.6 limit, and that’s what the foreign regulatory authorities thought, too,” said an FAA engineer. “It makes a difference in your assessment of the hazard involved.” https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/failed-certification-faa-missed-safety-issues-in-the-737-max-system-implicated-in-the-lion-air-crash/
  16. Like trying to tell your dad he shouldn't drive anymore.
  17. then a promotion
  18. Lion Air pilot did pretty well fighting MCAS with the electronic thumb switch. IIRC, MCAS rotates the stabilizer at a greater rate than the pilot's thumb switch, but I'm not sure. So, if he kept hitting that switch, could he have kept the plane in the air? FDR looks like it was a losing battle. The pilot handed controls off to the first officer toward the end.
  19. Yep.^ Forces acting on the stabilizer (internal jackscrew) at higher speeds make it harder to turn the manual trim wheel. If you don't catch it early, you're in trouble.
  20. The pilots can correct me if I'm off, but I think turning the stab trim cut-out switches off early enough is the key. If you don't, the factors you list play against you. I think Lion Air tried to use the thumb switch on the yoke (electric trim adjust) more than the Ethiopian flight. Still, they didn't turn of the stab trim switches soon enough. MCAS' actions were more influential than the thumb switch used by the pilot. Lion Air FDR https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/LionAir-BlackBox-WEB-1560x1040.jpg
  21. I'm sure Trump's already signed an EO making Barr the tiebreaking vote.
  22. '20 is going to be a wild ride.
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