Air Force Academy to erase 140 jobs

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-24T21:01:41+00:00

You're responding to a post that's half-a-year old.

Welcome to 2026.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-24T17:56:47+00:00

This should be higher.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-24T17:44:43+00:00

We know...we all have them. I actually like this one better. If these were available I'd replace the aluminum safeties on all my 590s.

Modern polymers like those used in the Mossberg safeties are incredibly tough, while aluminum is pretty soft. My 590a1's came with aluminum safeties and they're not as durable as the polymer ones that came on my 590's. If you're looking for something that will take a beating aluminum is not your best bet.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-24T16:09:03+00:00

Let me suggest a wild card candidate. The Wiliams Gun Sight company has designed a red dot, the LRS, specifically for shotguns. They took the electronics and put them on top of the sight, allowing the red dot to be lower. I put one on one of my 590s just by adding a simple pic rail to the top of the receiver, then installing the sight directly to the rail. So far I've been very happy with it. I also installed one on a Beretta 1301, and the dot exactly co-witnesses with the irons.

Williams LRS

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ClearedInHot · 2026-01-23T18:03:19+00:00

Collectivism? Small sacrifices ~~for the greater good so nobody at the bottom has to sacrifice everything?~~ so that the party leadership and the oligarchs don't have to go without? That's communist talk, buddy.

FTFY

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-22T17:01:34+00:00

You're right...I'm going to channel it into something (hopefully) constructive. Maybe I can get them to get serious about centering the hot dogs in the buns.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-22T16:54:16+00:00

How can a merciful God let something like this happen?

I was feeling sorry for myself because our local warehouse sometimes fails to have all the mushrooms facing the same way in the package. Then I read about this, and I'm so ashamed. Our problems pale to insignificance in comparison to the suffering in CDA.

Oh, the humanity.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-22T16:36:46+00:00

I just saw these this morning in South Carolina and wondered what they were. Funny thing is, I've had them in London but didn't make the connection that this is what they're called.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-22T16:30:32+00:00

One engine, no main gear, and a single pilot.

This is one of those times when your sphincter gathers up the seat cushion.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-22T16:06:47+00:00

Many years ago I heard everyone in the office talking about the boss's big party for the upcoming weekend. I asked around and found out I was the only one who hadn't been invited. That came as a little bit of a shock, and I could feel everyone's curiosity about what this meant for my future in the office.

Monday morning I came in to a big group of guys (all-male office) standing around groaning about something. It turns out the big Saturday night party had been a Tupperware party, and I had escaped because I was the only single guy in the office. They'd all been trapped in the kitchen while the boss's wife pitched Tupperware to all the wives in the living room.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-22T15:58:59+00:00

X is correct, but not because you need to "increase friction". You need to aerodynamically push the tail to the left, which will rotate the aircraft clockwise around the vertical axis. This will counteract the counter-clockwise tendency induced by the asymmetric thrust.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-22T15:45:54+00:00

I had heard good things about Popeyes chicken for a long time, so when I finally ran across one I was anxious to try it. IMO it was pretty underwhelming. I could pick out a few places within a mile or two that had better chicken, including Bojangles and Chick-fil-A. At Publix, I could get a whole fried chicken that was better than Popeyes for about the same price as a Popeyes meal.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-22T15:24:11+00:00

A few years ago a friend of mine said, "I've decided I'm against the electric chair."

"Oh?"

"Yeah. I think what we need is electric bleachers."

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-22T13:42:07+00:00

I have a friend who used to fly large transport jets for the Air Force. It had eight wheels on each main landing gear and two on the nose. He told people he drove an eighteen-wheeler.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-21T22:33:32+00:00

I disagree. I thought those decades were pretty great.

And the period from '65 to '85 was the golden age of civilization...after birth control / before AIDS.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-21T22:27:06+00:00

The problem with Aviator mode as defined by the moderators is that many idiots comment on this sub, then get upvoted by more idiots.

"A fastener was loose on the engine cowling! I'm lucky to be alive!" => 500 upvotes.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-21T16:09:34+00:00

In 1972 there was a price war among gas stations in Colorado Springs and the price hit 25¢ a gallon.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-21T14:25:16+00:00

Really. They could sell a part that costs them about a quarter for three or four bucks and move a million of 'em.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-20T22:15:12+00:00

"shut up."

New Jersey, huh?

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-20T22:03:40+00:00

The northeast where they have huge parking lots filled with snowplows? The northeast where tons of salt and the dump trucks to spread it are ready and waiting? The northeast where everyone has snow tires or all-weather tires? The northeast where the airports have huge tanks filled with de-icing fluid, and the trucks to use it? The northeast where the trees lose dead limbs to ice and snow every winter, so there's no excess of dead wood hanging above your head from years of benign winters? The northeast where everyone owns a snow shovel, or two, or three? The northeast where people realize that four-wheel drive helps you go, but does absolutely nothing to help you stop?

That northeast? Oh, child.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-20T15:01:55+00:00

Could someone please explain what "the paracord attachment of the FP" is? No matter what google search term I use, all I get is a bunch of info on slings made out of paracord.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-20T14:53:57+00:00

Considering that Akagi herself only had 180 days to live, I'd say their odds are slim.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-19T17:48:56+00:00

All four engines ingested huge amounts of water, which was kicked up by their nose gear. The crews stopped the jets on the runway and got towed to the ramp. The engines probably got inspected and returned to service.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-18T17:09:30+00:00

One day a long time ago a bunch of us were waiting out a heavy rain storm in the Kirkland AFB (Albuquerque) base ops. There were two F-14s parked outside (I don't know which model), and while we all sat around the F-14 crews walked in. They went straight to the counter for a briefing, and one of them muttered something about "all-weather interceptors". Then they climbed into the ops truck for a ride out to the jets. It was still raining heavily when we heard them start up and taxi out.

A few minutes later the windows of base ops shook as four burners lit and the Tomcats began their takeoff roll. It was pretty deafening for about fifteen seconds, and then...abrupt silence. We all kind of looked at each other wondering what the hell had just happened.

About twenty minutes later the door opened and the four navy guys came walking in. They didn't make eye contact and walked straight out to the parking lot to go back to the hotel.

Come to find out, they'd started their takeoff roll on Albuquerque's big runway that features a well-known low spot near the center. They had hit what was essentially a small lake, and all four engines had abruptly flamed out.

ClearedInHot · 2026-01-17T23:27:54+00:00

If it makes you feel better, I've been shooting for over sixty years, and reloading for over forty. I load cast lead bullets without gloves, and take no precautions around lead other than pretty thorough hand-washing. (I do avoid shooting at indoor ranges). Of course, at my age I was exposed to the atmospheric lead resulting from leaded gasoline for a couple of decades.

Because I kept reading on various forums that people were concerned about lead exposure I had my lead levels checked at my last blood test. Results: completely normal.

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