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Your Mom

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  1. Reveille Peak is outstanding. It takes a few miles to get to the really good stuff but riding on all that granite is like nothing else in this area.
  2. The schedules are based on getting people to the most common connections downline. For every flight you alter in the morning you'd need to alter several others after it at several other airports then then several more after each of those, and on and on. But yeah, our airport is way too small. I'm sure it'll be a quick fix, it's not like we live in the kind of city that finally finishes the only freeway that runs to its airport 20 years after that airport is built.
  3. The first of the bigger ones is built to probably 3’ off the ground but it’s a sloped landing to land maybe 2’ or so below the base of the ramp. That one fucked with my head for a long time because you cannot see the landing zone until you’re committed. And it’s down in a ravine so it always looks like it’s going to be a lot deeper than it is. The the last is maybe a foot or so higher, also to a sloped landings at a lower spot. As you’d expect, it was all a lot smoother than I thought it would be and fairly uneventful after the fact.
  4. I overcame some demons today and hit some drops I'd been pulling up short on the last couple years... Snail Trail at Brushy Creek. I hit the first one a few days ago but today was the first time to hit the second one too. Probably need to lean the camera up more next time. Need more speed on the second one to not case the landing zone so short, but it's hard with those turns right before.
  5. Not anymore. It will be the most googled thing today by a long shot. If they’re smart they bring Chris Rock back next year and millions will tune in just to see what other kind of drama gets stirred up.
  6. This is going to turn into gold for Chris Rock. He will be telling jokes about this for years. Sure, it was initially in bad taste on his part but he is far wittier than Smith is likeable and there is zero chance he lets this be his last words about it.
  7. tldr: USC fan won this football. I married his daughter. He gave it to me. The return key on my keyboard doesn't work.
  8. The NTSB has been invited to participate in the investigation. They are typically very candid in their findings and their recommendations are often at odds with the FAA and industry groups. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of access they actually get here. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-china-invites-ntsb-participate-190138914.html
  9. No, I went to that bar specifically to order one. I figured I'd give it a shot since he's been entertaining nearly 50,000 of us over the years with all that Texas history, photos, and stories. In a social media world full of mostly shit, his stuff kicks ass. And your move is to come in with, "What I drink is cooler than what you drink!" What, are we in high school here? Get fucked.
  10. For every one that dies there's 100 more about to try it for the first time.
  11. Maybe we need a whole new thread for this shit. FullSizeRender.mov
  12. Been meaning to get over here for a couple of them for a while now. Made it happen tonight. Good summer drink.
  13. Pajamas are too long to be John Stockton's daughter.
  14. The old Angry Dolphin. eh eh eh eh EH EH
  15. Also, I'm not ready to crack jokes about this yet, but there's a Beastie Boys album cover reference out there waiting for somebody.
  16. Yeah but that would be between the lady and the dude. I hope she pursues it but more than likely she went on her way after he got pulled off. Doubt she's going to miss her flight so she can give statements to the cops, etc... I'd love to be wrong on that. I could see a case for his light push of the FA to be considered interfering with a crewmember, but I've seen shit like this too many times only to find out the guy got pulled off and booked on the next flight after the verbal equivalent of a sternly worded note.
  17. 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.
  18. Just watching the video makes me claustrophobic. I'm out.
  19. They did. This happened prior to pushing off the gate. :18 seconds in, the FA goes up front to start the process of getting him kicked off. It takes a bit to coordinate that though. The days of crewmembers of any kind actively pulling a guy off a plane are long gone, it's done by local security and local cops now. I highly doubt he was arrested, since his threats were to a passenger and not a crewmember. More than likely the airport cops escorted him off. I'd love to say he was put on a no-fly list for the entire industry, but unfortunately one doesn't exist yet.
  20. My speed varies by well over a mph depending when I took my last dump. It could be something other than the bike.
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