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Bobby_Batronic

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  1. Reed Boyd
  2. Seems racist.
  3. That’s enough. Signed, The Whales
  4. Airbus lingo doing Airbus lingo things. The manuals are written in French and then translated by ESL speakers so they read a bit like stereo instructions at times. The start abort verbiage for a manual engine start is particularly terrible.
  5. The short answer is that it’s the airplane flying at a speed above the predicted Vapp to keep a minimum energy level on approach in windy conditions. A minimum ground speed if you will. The technical answer is that when in managed speed on approach ( ATHR on indicated by a magenta carrot on the speed tape) the aircraft’s speed will be consistently above the magenta carrot consistent with the wind conditions. Vapp being Vls (lowest selectable speed) + 5 knots or 1/3 of the gust factor not to exceed 15 knots. Whichever is greater. It does a good job of it too except for the 319 which often predicts the Vapp to be uncomfortably close to Vls. The wings don’t pop off if the plane dips below Vls or anything, but hilarity will ensue if you go below Alpha Prot (indicated by the red and amber striped tape below and the amber “hook” that represents Vls). Alpha prot is where angle of attack protections take over. Most guys manually increase Vapp in the 319 by 3-5 knots for this reason. The only other time you ever get close to going below Vls in the bus is usually on a 321 trying to slow down with the boards out.
  6. Is it possible we hired Yurcich because he makes Herman’s hair game look strong?
  7. Coach speak so as not to distract from the game today.
  8. Let’s be honest. Do any of them?
  9. Texas was being courteous trying to keep it quiet. Ryan Day knows nothing about it. Yucich is focused on the playoffs. Announcements after Clemson game to allow Bucks two weeks to focus on MNC if they win today. Herman consulted with Gundy about the hire. Ohio State fans hate Tom Herman and upholstered furniture.
  10. I didn’t argue otherwise. But, as you correctly noted, you have to win. And Tom has proven to be pretty middling at that. No one cares if the head man is an asshole as Lon as he’s our asshole and he delivers. Herman seems to struggle with both facets while still being an asshole. Oh, and I’ll throw the Dabo qualifier in for the nice guy finished last bit. As usual, he’s the general exception to the rule.
  11. I didn’t argue otherwise. But, as you correctly noted, you have to win. And Tom has proven to be pretty middling at that. No one cares if the head man is an asshole as Lon as he’s our asshole and he delivers. Herman seems to struggle with both facets while still being an asshole. Oh, and I’ll throw the Dabo qualifier in for the nice guy finished last bit. As usual, he’s the general exception to the rule.
  12. Saban and Meyer buy themselves a lot of rope by actually being elite football coaches.
  13. He’s a pretty good HC when not resting on his butter soaked laurels.
  14. Not hedging any bets. I’ve said in multiple posts on this very thread that it won’t work. But I won’t look a gift horse in the mouth if Herman happens to be an outlier, instead of succumbing to the norm.
  15. Thank you. I almost included his Holy Name in the post for the mouth breathers hoping for the coaching lotto to hit.
  16. We all are, but Herman’s probably not the guy, and his forced staff turnover probably isn’t the pathway to success. So I’ll hope for titles and hardware next year, and not be particularly surprised when it doesn’t happen.
  17. Made whole enough to satisfy the C suite.
  18. The comet strike in Greenland that interrupted the Ice Age probably had much of the world’s population on the brink for the better part of a thousand years.
  19. It’s enough that WN is made whole while sharing $125M in lost income with their employees. Southwest is down what? 12-15% of their projected fleet size between the MAX’s and 700’s sold to United?
  20. All of this. Reboots don’t work. It’s fun to fantasize that we’ll hire all the right dudes and pull off the Dabo of the century to get this thing on track. But it will fail. Maybe even spectacularly. We’re probably due for a dead cat bounce 2020 season with 9 total wins which will prolong the inevitable by one more year unless the BMDs have truly had enough. Otherwise it’s time to just straddle the nuclear weapon and watch the coming Tompocolypse from our front row seats. Bitching all the way of course.
  21. Yes, well he meant something creative by design before the snap, and not VY scramble to victory after the designed play blew up. I would still love to know what percentage of the 04-05 offense was purely VY improvisation.
  22. There was twin Cessna freight hauler that had a leak in his turbocharger burn through the wing spar out around Vernon. The wing came off at altitude and he transmitted tot the ground pleading for his mother to help him.
  23. Yeah, I bet Mack pines for GDGD at UNC so long as he brings VY with him.
  24. If we can just get the next VY and 21 future NFL players to play on both sides of the ball we’ll be set.
  25. I envision a scenario where Herman drove up to work everyday and sat in his car playing Pour Some Sugar On Me on repeat at extreme volume outside of CDC’s office until Del Conte relented in exchange for his preferred morning music of Kenny G or perhaps Yanni.
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