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DalTxHornFan

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  1. 2 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Big enough to sleep in?  As I become more and more of a lazy old turd, I just crash in the blind and set my alarm on the cell.  Easier than waking, dressing, and driving out to the spot.  I'm getting soft....;)

    That has been my approach to hunting for many years.  I hate getting up at dark-thirty and scaring off errything when I climb into the blind.

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  2. 10 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

    It reminds me a little of the Atlas/Prime Air crash in Trinity Bay a few years ago.  That one was two pilots fighting for the controls when the FO overcorrected an inadvertent go-around.  Once you get that steep and the airspeed gets so high the control forces have to just be overwhelming.  Not saying this was caused by the same thing, but once you go vertical for more than a few seconds mach tuck takes over and simply pulling up isn't going to be an option.  Speeds that fast become a self-compounding problem.

    The suicide angle makes sense but damn... you could just as easily accomplish that from 300' without all that time to think about it and without giving the other guy the chance to save it.    

    I've been thinking about that flight in looking at this incident.  They lost elevator control.  But that plane didn't auger in at a 180 like a missile.

    There is something odd about this incident.   

  3. 17 minutes ago, DaysOff said:

    Definitely looks like part of the stabilizer is missing.

    Which came first? High speed dive that ripped it off or Bobby's scenario of a high altitude upset and over g during the correction. The world may never know.39fc46e8a5f313d55ccbfa30defd2d6d.jpg

    That's good info.  How soon before impact is this frame? 

    That first video posted up thread looks like there was some sort of separation at 13-14 seconds.  It looks like a plume (debris?) following the plane prior to impact. 

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  4. 1 hour ago, Lobo said:

    I know the library is still around because we tried to buy it last year and turn it into offices.  Turns out Stream Realty was way ahead of us and outbid us.  Not sure about Aquarium.  But my point is folks have noticed that literally the only portion of the CBD not experiencing redevelopment is Dirty Sixth.  It's not because nobody wants to office/hotel down there, it's because the prices were too high for too long.  They're the only ones coming down now as legacy leases downstairs combined with woefully inefficient use on 2nd and 3rd floors are coming to a head and capital needs to get deployed somewhere in Austin for redevelopment.  I'll try to figure out how to post photos from our underwriting visits to the Library. And I suspect half the bars there look the same upstairs.  There was a mezz level bar we were gonna turn into a coworking space/lounge.  And then the third floor (which also had its own 'mezz loft') was just a complete shitshow of space.  There was a little office for like 5 people crammed in the back and the rest was just like a scrap hoarder reality show.  Just filled with accumulated junk and trash and all manner of shit.  We looked at a few comps and it's the same story up and down the street.  Some legacy lease downstairs on some retail or bar, then two levels of either other bar/other storage of shit.  It's a shitty use of space consider the price on the floorplate.  Plus a lot more of those can go vertical outside the CVC than you'd think.  I will bet our soft money costs than by the end of the decade, it'll be literally half of the current bar/restaurant usage with a half dozen teardowns going vertical, and everything else in between.  It's the one thing Adler and the DAA and folks like Stream, et. al. have agreed on and done good planning on.

    I don't know where this kinda shit eventually bleeds out to, but go ahead and short that area if you can.

    Stream Realty is covered up and all-in on the redevelopment of Dirty 6th:

    Sixth_Street_Coronavirus-scaled.jpeg

    https://austin.towers.net/one-real-estate-company-now-owns-more-than-30-properties-on-east-sixth/?pro=caitlyn@towers.net

  5. 2 minutes ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

    i have zero regrets being born and raised there.  there's no finer people on earth when it comes to sticking by you and helping a brother out come hell or high water.  none.  and welcoming as fuck to the outsider.

    and motherfuck the food...holy god i do so miss the food.

    You proved the point.  You escaped.  There is something about that area that makes a lot of people unaware that life exists outside the Golden Triangle. 

  6. 14 minutes ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

    they'd rather it shut the whole fucker down than take another path.

    I am PNG spawn, but I fortunately escaped to Austin at a young age.  Other family members were not so fortunate. 

    It is a step back in time when I go there for funerals.  On the positive side, we almost always go to The Schooner so as to get the very best of that cool retro vibe!

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  7. 25 minutes ago, DaysOff said:


    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771

    Or you could put your foot on the yoke and go vertical.

    The plane was estimated to have crashed slightly faster than the speed of sound, around 770 mph (1,240 km/h), disintegrating instantly. Based on the deformation of the titanium black box data recorder case, the aircraft experienced a deceleration of 5,000 times the force of gravity (G-force) when it hit the ground. It was traveling around a 70° angle toward the south. The plane struck a rocky hillside, leaving a crater less than 2 ft (0.6 m) deep and 4 ft (1.2 m) across. Only 11 of the passengers were ever identified

    Talk about going out with a bang.

  8. 2 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    possibility the co-pilot trying to wrestle it away for a short period from a suicide pilot.

    that video looks like a kamazie pilot.  

    could be a fire that destroyed controls like the JetBlue deal in Florida.  weird

    Nobody has done high-res frame by frame of those videos yet, but the plane looks to be intact and under control flying straight (down, unfortunately!)  An in-flight break-up wouldn't look like that, and even a loss of elevator control wouldn't put a plane into a missile trajectory.  Very odd.

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