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Bobby_Batronic

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  1. An oft repeated story with all manner of flying machines.
  2. They allow it to fit into existing gate spaces.
  3. Sounds like UAL is hedging their bets. 321XLR if the 10 is a dud, or option down/trade those slots if the XLR is a weak performer. I’m curious to see what they can do with the XLR wing. Supposedly they are reworking the slats/flaps to yield better field performance, but the 321 is usually pretty unhappy above FL330 with anything approaching a full cabin without glassy smooth air. I can’t imagine the XLR will do better with the same span and a good deal more weight.
  4. The problem is that Airbus will have had the 321XLR in production for almost a decade, teething problems fixed and shortcomings largely identified/addressed by the time Boeing can produce the next 757. It's basically going to be the 757-300 with better fuel economy, and hopefully better 321 field performance with a modified wing attached.
  5. Double tap. Works on zombies and passenger planes.
  6. You’d be disappointed. I’m too busy enjoying the roomy simplicity of the Airbus flightdeck. On a serious note the Max is too big too fail. They’ll certify it, go through political theater and passenger angst, and then it’ll be in mass use.
  7. Is one the son of Dana Dimel who happened to be the Co-OC at KSU? Way to go out on a limb for the low hanging fruit their Snyderlet.
  8. I would care if I thought any of this had a chance of working.
  9. Okam’s Razor: Tom Herman being a socially inept dick is the reason talented UT alums have no desire to return to Austin as a coach.
  10. Yes, but the key is the water which transmits all the force of the blast to the concrete. Its different than bombs making contact in the open air.
  11. It’s kinda a problem having them hold offshore because of the inbound and outbound LAX traffic, and to a far lesser extent LGB, SNA and perhaps business jets off of SMO if it’s still operating turbine traffic. But you’d like to think someone had considered a way to keep a heavy close by so that it could dump fuel without dropping widget juice on local children.
  12. None of the above.
  13. Does the size of the base of the damn matter if the amount of water it’s holding back is proportionally larger? I dunno. But it would seem that you’d only need to start the failure to let the water behind do the rest.
  14. Actually, they skipped to the damn and then sunk to somewhere near the base. Or that was the design anyway. The skipping was the only way they could devise to snuggle the weapons up close to the concrete as they sank.
  15. Epps’ struggles with 5’10” DB’s makes me think that his ability to out physical DE’s and OLB’s would be pretty limited to non existent. I guess he could marginally get in the way at times.
  16. I don’t know about that. The bouncing dambuster bombs employed by the British were quite a bit short of a nuclear blast, but the incompressibility of water made for giant hammer blows against the concrete.
  17. Just a used car salesman posing as a secret agent to get laid being shaken down by actual secret agents.
  18. You don’t know enough flight attendants.
  19. Middle of the night + high stress ( military on alert expecting a counter strike) doesn’t usually lead to clarity of thought.
  20. Mushroom cloud letting them nuts hang.
  21. Well, sure. But unlikely.
  22. You implied that it was a set up. It’s a city with millions of people in it. Go out and about any place that big virtually anywhere else at that time of night and you’ll see people with smart phones out filming all kinds of BS.
  23. Yes, it’s unusual to have anyone filming anything late at night in a city of millions. Totally implausible.
  24. I was having a similar discussion with an Air Force Reserve Major who currently flies 130’s as his side hustle. His take was basically that the Herc’s get beat to hell during service, and that they wouldn’t be ideal for the rigors or fire flying. The converted civilian airliners certainly take their share of wear and tear, but most aren’t doing combat landings into unimproved fields with armored vehicles on board.
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