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Your Mom

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  1. Spoilers on the Max are fly by wire but that’s just to get them up quick on the ground. 787 and 777 are the only true fly by wire planes Boeing has built.
  2. 737 is not fly by wire. All the main controls are hydraulic and mechanical.
  3. The defense stopping Lindale White was my favorite memory of the NC game. The whole outcome of the game was in in question right then and there. But as soon as we stopped them you knew we were gonna win. The whole damn stadium knew it.
  4. We won’t know what happened on this for months. The FDR and the CVR will probably clear it up at some point. Landing in that condition would only make sense if they lost both engines or thought they had an uncontrollable fire on board. But even under those conditions there are ways to get the gear and the flaps out. A couple of minor points that don’t change the big picture here at all… The 737 has both leading edge slats and leading edge flaps. The inboards are flaps and the outboards are slats. There is no fuel dumping capability on a 737. Flaps and gear are powered hydraulically with redundancies built in. An engine failure alone doesn’t prevent you from operating the gear or flaps. But if you do have an entire hydraulic system failure the flaps have an electric back up and the gear has a manual/gravity back up. A not so insignificant the point is that some EMAS installed at the end of that runway would’ve come in very handy there.
  5. PM @Poolflood
  6. You’re wondering if Herbie will take good care of your bunghole?
  7. You should read slower. Nobody said they were the first 2 to result in touchdowns.
  8. Obviously not his only two audibles, but the fact that they resulted in 2 touchdowns in the same game might make them a little more significant than all the ones that were just another play in the middle of a drive.
  9. Meanwhile the entire US Army is looking at West Point saying, “You guys lost to these fucking clowns?!”
  10. This. Go attend a few games at other teams stadiums and you come home really appreciating what CDC has put together here.
  11. We were in the lower section of the west corner of the north end zone and it was loud as hell when Clemson had the ball. The “We are now obligated to play Clemson’s video” graphic was pretty funny. Coming out of halftime, they played an hype video showing a lot of all-time longhorn great plays and narrated by Colt. It was an outstanding video. I’d like to find a copy of it online somewhere. I’m only at one or two games a year but I don’t remember seeing that one before.
  12. Step 1. Win all the games
  13. I ordered a jersey from some random seller on Facebook marketplace yesterday. It looks like it’s probably a black market fake Nike jersey with all the right numbers names and logos stitched on. I have a UPS tracking number and it’ll be here on the 24th. I won’t be surprised if I’m let down by it, but it can’t be any worse than the garbage they’re trying to sell at the co-op and the team store with black stripes on the sleeves or weird fonts, etc..
  14. You’d think his lazy ass could’ve miracled that truck off the track.
  15. In this Freudian scenario of yours does Quinn still have the mullet or not?
  16. That janky, old dry rotted wooden post is a complete pussy. Steel T-post should start.
  17. Disney really fucked up with this movie about a princess, meant for six-year old girls, that seems to have missed the mark with the middle-aged male football fan demographic.
  18. Rookie move. Waterloo is where they go with the kids for the playscape. District is where they go when the kids are with their dad.
  19. That’s a pretty cool lInk. Here’s a screenshot of it in case people don’t click on it. 2 confirmed by TPW in Williamson County and another in Blanco County. And a couple as far east as the border with Louisiana.
  20. This was in Uvalde a few days ago.
  21. There have been several mountain lion sightings near Circle C in south Austin going back several years. Mostly I just see the cougars at the District Kitchen bar and occasionally at HEB with an upside down pineapple in their basket. But lots of folks have reported seeing them on the trails around the neighborhood.
  22. I think Andrew Luck was just named Football General Manager at Stanford. It’s a thing. I think this is gonna go about as well for Bill as it did for Saban with the Dolphins.
  23. Maybe you can find a 3rd thread to post the same goddamn thing in within 5 minutes. Maybe the Sark thread for the trifecta.
  24. 2.43/gal. Not bad.
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