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Bobby_Batronic

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  1. True, but the shape and what it implies will still be valid.
  2. Scalloping seems to make sense, and yet Airbus won’t do it because they think they can do some kind of sound baffling that has the same effect without the performance hit. I can say the new geared turbofans are crazy quiet, and they even mostly hold together these days. Still have to turn the ATHR off and manually sync them at times.
  3. Big fans make that sound. I don’t know why. One of the motors types on the 11 is the CF6 or TF39, and is known as a bit of a screamer on the C5’s that haven’t been updated to CFM Super Galaxies. I know FedEx has them on their 11’s, UPS has the Pratt’s, and I don’t know if they mix their engine types in fleer (some being Pratt and others being CF6). Usually not, but the 11 was built in limited quantities, and they may have laid their hands on them wherever they could for cargo conversion. Completely spitballing, but he may be hearing that.
  4. Complete guess, but big motors move more air and large wings and lifting surfaces create more wind noise. Having said that, 777 motors are moving twice the air as an MD-11. It’s probably just the acoustics of your location, something to do with the bypass ratio (low speed, quieter fan air to high speed, louder, jet exhaust) and the natural sound signature of the motors involved. The motors powering the 11 have been around since the late 70’s to early 80’s and power A300 series, 747s, 767s, MD10/11s, C5s and the core is used on some 777s. All that to say that they probably meet all noise limit requirements, and are just louder than other motor types on smaller planes. They’re still loads quieter than the original turbojets or low bypass fans.
  5. It conveniently resembles the female reproductive system so that eventuality is covered.
  6. You’re correct. The phenergan was there to prevent nausea. Too late. I was already puking from the pain. Really, I was trying to illustrate that I knew what the next steps were when the Demerol quickly wore off. I’m sure they didn’t want to go straight to stadol and didn’t trust someone telling them that they needed it. But after awhile it was pretty annoying. The last episode I had resulted in a very lengthy wait in triage for imaging, results and medication in an absolutely dead ER. I think they thought I was just trying to get a fix, because I’d never had to wait for pain medication before imaging in previous visits to the hospital. But life is bliss once that stuff hits.
  7. I had a pretty long run of kidney stone issues until I finally got it under control with diet and supplements. It was so out of control that during one episode they found 20 retained stones (9 on one side and 11 on the other). Anyway, I had it down to a science ast to what they were going to give me and when. They never believed me when I told them the Demerol would wear off within 30 minutes and they’d have to give me Stadol and Phenergan. I think those two pain killers are out of use nowadays. It’s been awhile. Anyway, I have no known drug allergies, but I would start speaking relatively fluent Spanish once the drugs kicked in.
  8. Everybody redshirted last year.
  9. I’d bet it’s closer to $100 a minute in fuel costs alone at cruise. An A321 burns about 15 gallons a minute at cruise, and that -8 has twice the motors with 100% more push. Probably the old $10k hamburger if you wanted to take it one way from FLL to PBI. Or Cuban if you headed to MIA.
  10. He travels by air, supplemental lift is a thing and I have close contacts in that world.
  11. He absolutely still uses/abuses pain pills and mixes that liberally with alcohol. That’s as of 3 weeks ago. Whether that contributed or not to his accident is unclear.
  12. It’s Qatari registry, so you might find some change in the couches if you go tour it.
  13. Agreed, but take away the partying bit, and it’s just another s**thole.
  14. I think “rental cars are what’s used to run drugs through the country” is even more accurate. I had a friend rent an SUV in Montgomery, AL while attending a funeral and he noted that it smelled funny. He had the po po come check it out when they reached the place where he was staying, and they found significant evidence of drug paraphernalia, residue or what have you once they started their search.
  15. There was a gentlemen we used to take back and forth to Tampico with dual citizenship who owned the local Coca Cola distributorship. We took him down there in 08 to get his family out. He told us his business partner had been kidnapped and killed, and he was done. He said the cartels always ran the city, but in the past they didn’t really allow any crime and just wanted to move their product. But anything goes was the order of the day with the current groups. We were waiting on him and his family to show at the airport when a gunfight erupted maybe a block or two away. And it kept going for some time. We agreed that I would jump in and start an engine, and that we were leaving if it came any closer. The family arrived shortly thereafter. F that place.
  16. I’m pretty sure that’s Jerry Stiller.
  17. I don’t want to live in a world where serving potatoes to family is a codified crime.
  18. They’ll count everyone within a quarter mile of the stadium to announce over 100k in attendance. I’m also curious how many folks will be allowed on each step of those standing room party decks. I think Alabama traded in seats for an opposing scoreboard, and if they can’t pack it out then no one can.
  19. There’s a 747-8 outfitted as a business jet for sale on the Sheltair ramp in Lauderdale if anyone has a bit of extra folding money laying about.
  20. I don’t understand it either, but I watched people spend $50k a weekend on transportation alone 4 times a month to spend 36 hours in (Not NY). Imagine dropping $1M+ and well higher than that just to get to your weekend getaway. And yet they can’t let go of the chase.
  21. You’d be surprised how many people with F you money are still driven (no pun intended) to attain more.
  22. The Phenom and Legacy products took away the Lear’s niche. The Phenom is cheaper and goes farther with the same pax load (but is slower than molasses), and the Legacy 450-550 is darn near a Challenger 300 for not much more than Lear 75 prices. Once the Lear 85 was shelved the end was inevitable.
  23. Pretty close, except he only has a dollop of black on his face.
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