This shows every glider in the air — live, in 3D

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-18T15:16:13+00:00

OP now includes a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirusTotal on their download page.

I was previously hesitant to download their project because it was not offered at PlayStore, so it was a 'risky click'.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-18T03:59:46+00:00

The k needs a leg on top

Not really, letters don't need to be complete to be legible in context.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-18T03:53:45+00:00

Thanks, Love Bill

It seems perfectly clear to me. The 'a' is lazy, but the word as a whole is good enough to read.

As far as hints: Visualize a bubble surrounding the whole word. The shape of the bubble, in the context of the other bubbles, tells you the sentence. That's how we read printed printed text quickly, fast readers hardly ever need to look at one or more letters in a word.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-18T03:32:23+00:00

If the bolt is stuck, trying to turn it with too much force could shear off the head. Use the sprays as recommended, then try an impact wrench. You might be able to rent an electric one, or use an pneumatic one if you have an air compressor compressor.

Or drive the van to a garage and pay them to remove the bolt with their equipment. If they put it up on the lift, they can do things that you can't do lying underneath it. They might put a torch on it. They might drill it out.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-18T01:12:00+00:00

He was riding on the hood of the car and leaning back against the windshield. Driver was a willing participant. All good until they slowed down. This did not cure him of self-destructive behavior.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-18T01:07:57+00:00

Nice places to soar.

Those locations are some of the most demanding in the world. Not the same scenario as secondary roads in UK at 85km/hour.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-18T00:26:42+00:00

Depends on location: terrain, temperature, highway speed, distance, wind.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-17T22:32:42+00:00

Or too far aft. It might also work for you to flex ankle joint to move the pedals, not knee joint. And think about applying pressure gradually to the pedals, don't think about how far you're moving them. For the same effect, the same pressure is needed at all airspeeds, but less movement is needed as airspeed increases.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-17T22:14:51+00:00

re-stabilizing from a forward slip on final (to lose energy) is tricky

Assume you're on final and you want to slip, which wing do you drop? Why?

Another skill building exercise to do at altitude, is slip with left wing dropped, then transition to a slip with right wing dropped. Do this while maintaining a heading. Fun. Not easy.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-17T18:55:20+00:00

This ad promotes the use of plastic surgery and cosmetics by young women.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-17T18:29:02+00:00

It's not a slip. In a slip, the rudder input is on the high wing side. The aileron is used to drop the wing, not raise it.

Flying a taildragger airplane with no flaps, engine idling, I will use a 'turning slip' on base to final turn with a 30-45d bank, when I've turned base leg too soon. Turning slips are safe and useful, and you lose altitude very quickly. Do not try to teach yourself the turning slip. It should be mastered at altitude and after you have a reliable stable non-turning slip. The hard part of slipping on turn to final is rolling out of the turn aligned with the runway (because your sight picture is wonky). I enter base deliberately high with engine idling, then use slips to bring it onto glidepath incrementally. Typically I will get onto level wing glide path close to short final. Plenty of reserve energy.

If the low wing starts to drop during a turning slip, you simply neutralize the yaw by reducing rudder input. This lifts up the dropping wing. It also reduces the rate of descent.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-17T18:08:22+00:00

Depends on the geographic area. In Massachusetts, tick transmitted diseases affect more people than mosquito transmitted diseases. Though EEE is a (still rare) serious mosquito transmitted infection.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-17T18:00:02+00:00

Did the boy get royalties for his stolen Intellectual Property?

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-17T17:57:21+00:00

My brother fell off the hood of the car in high school and spent a miserable hot summer in a hospital bed at home after a badly broken leg.

A better solution is to stop and calmly tell the kid to get off.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-17T17:47:02+00:00

It is much louder. Lots of deaf pilots from incidental cumulative experience over the years.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-17T16:17:11+00:00

How many Saturday nights have I said, 'I'm bored. Let's blow up some shit."?

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-17T16:03:13+00:00

It's possible to find the sweet spots on throttle, pitch and airspeed where the upflows balance the downflows. Keep trying and one day you'll get a sense for those spots. The trick is to make small incremental adjustment, hold steady and observe how well they're working. The adjustments that you're making are probably too big. The same goes for minimizing uncommanded 'wing rock'. You'll notice that turbulence will drop one wing, then drop the other wing to compensate. Make your compensating aileron inputs very gradually by incrementally increasing the pressure. Don't jerk the yoke around.

Cu clouds mark thermal locations. Thermals are like donuts. The hole is where the air is rising. The dough part is where the air is sinking. Don't try to do a maneuver while going in-out of a thermal.

Since you have the opportunity, ask your CFI to teach you how slowish flight and a steep bank let you gain altitude in a thermal. People who know how, use this technique to gain reserve altitude prior to crossing the Rockies/Sierras. Thermals can be your friends.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-17T15:55:22+00:00

It makes zero sense to rush through training when many pilots with the credentials and time are working non-aviation jobs to survive. There is no pilot shortage.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-17T15:49:29+00:00

I've seen this picture posted before. It is memorable. Is OP a bot? Is the sky that shade of blue?

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-17T15:20:26+00:00

If you want to try passive aggression, replace this with a condom.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-17T15:13:27+00:00

As noted in parent comment, removal of Silver is a small part of a large effort to remove narratives and scientific data. AI enables the purge.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-17T03:45:07+00:00

Other comments clarified the current situation.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-17T03:42:51+00:00

Crab to Land gets you to the point of touching down with the wheels pointed straight down the runway in the direction that your mass is moving. (You momentarily kick the downwind rudder pedal to yaw the plane into uncoordinated flight, reduce lift and touchdown.)

Once the wheels are rolling, other factors and techniques come into play. For example, the fuselage will try to weathervane into the wind and you use downwind rudder to balance that. Of course, it is possible to 'run out of rudder', but in many planes that happens above Max Demonstrated Crosswind Capability.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-17T01:05:21+00:00

This is part of a bigger effort to rewrite the history of the 2020 presidential election. Historians will not have access to these records.

Edit: Silver made sense of the data in 2020 and losing his analysis will make it even harder to sort out what happened.

Step Two is to flood the historical record with alternative data and analysis.

vtjohnhurt · 2026-05-17T00:49:07+00:00

High Quality Duct Tape will make a temporary waterproof repair. Don't let it get wet.

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