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SurlyGator

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  1. 3 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

    I made HH Spaghetti Sunday and have been eating it for lunch all week. I make white bread sandwiches with it. Delish. 

    Keeping your gastroenterologist happy, I see...

  2. 25 minutes ago, locodos said:

    pffft

    This is all you need right here

     

    Well, this sent me down a YouTube rabbit hole.  The company whose pilot was interviewed for this clip (Dauntless Air) is based in Minnesota, but has three hangars with one of them being in Cleburn.  That plane is part crop duster, part seaplane, part (water) bomber, and is the largest production single engine plane on the market.  Those pilots make it look easy.  It isn't.

  3. The analytical brain in me wonders how much trial and error went into finding the right size probe that would pull a sufficient amount of water quickly without jerking the nose down too hard towards the water.  That's some serious science at work right there.

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  4. I'm not a pilot, but it sounds more like a crap ton of pilot error.  Even if they did lose both engines to bird strikes (a la Miracle on the Hudson), they were airborne more than twice the amount of time that Sully was, plus they did a go around teardrop which would be next to impossible with no thrust.  Could the APU have been damaged and wouldn't start?  Maybe, but with the redundancy built into airlines I would think that would be highly unlikely.

  5. He may well be tuning over in his grave (were he already buried) at all the Hook 'Ems that post received, but I contributed one as well.  Well written.

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