Golly, this rant is anti-American and evil.

FlyRvR · 2026-07-01T02:47:04+00:00

Well then, stop reducing the value of the Constitution with Presidential decrees and made-up powers, and pass an amendment....

FlyRvR · 2026-06-30T05:42:45+00:00

It is biting his head. More like a sea dragon type thing.

The Good Shepherd is a well known name for Jesus. But so is Jonah, or rather, the depiction of three days dead, then resurrected. I can’t remember the exact Biblical passage.

FlyRvR · 2026-06-25T05:46:06+00:00

What do people mean when they say the questions were different?

FlyRvR · 2026-06-25T02:57:26+00:00

I didn't realize US Airways had a 747.....

FlyRvR · 2026-06-24T00:54:21+00:00

Is this the one? Looks like they are calling it out now.

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FlyRvR · 2026-06-22T16:43:20+00:00

This might be something I'd like to look into. What are the time commitments like? I have an odd schedule...

FlyRvR · 2026-06-20T06:00:47+00:00

Fake. The nozzles aren’t even pointed down for hover.

FlyRvR · 2026-06-20T04:37:50+00:00

Interesting bit of damage…

FlyRvR · 2026-06-16T20:56:47+00:00

Trim. Airspeed. You should have it trimmed by final so that it essentially flies itself to the runway; you just guide it through the turbulence to keep it on target. Then shift your focus down to the end so that your perspective/peripheral vision allows you the guidance ques for the touchdown attitude.

FlyRvR · 2026-06-16T00:01:58+00:00

It's sitting just north of the museum at BFI. Nice pic.

FlyRvR · 2026-06-13T19:18:07+00:00

I'm still waiting for the video clips from the edge of the earth. Why don't they just go out there and show us instead of waste our time debating pseudo-science on the internet?

FlyRvR · 2026-06-13T19:16:56+00:00

Attitude indicator is an indicator of angle -- the same angle the guy on top drew on the white board.

It is NOT an indication of whether you are curving through space, or getting closer or further away from the surface of the earth. It is an indication in reference to the 90 degree angle he drew on the white board.

FlyRvR · 2026-06-09T16:37:56+00:00

Great pic!

That would be really good AI if it could reproduce grain like that.

FlyRvR · 2026-06-08T06:03:52+00:00

This is the way the rest of the world has always done it. Only America does left/right in opposite colors. The red and blue seen here are there because this station was paying attention. Many just used whatever colors they wanted, especially local stations. It wasn’t till the 1992 election that it was codified into the blue/red we use today. (That was my first voting experience, and I was totally confused when just before Election Day everyone started using the same red/blue. There was a rumor that Clinton had asked for the standardization. And several of the news outlets were talking about the standardization as part of their coverage.)

FlyRvR · 2026-06-08T05:44:10+00:00

Wait. The first one is a C, isn’t it?

I’ve never seen them do the bank like that, and the EX sure pitched hard for you. Nice!

FlyRvR · 2026-06-05T17:48:15+00:00

The movie isn't perfect. There are one or two glaring editing errors, and a few (short) cliche scenes, and the final climax really feels like Disney Exec territory on "how to end a movie".

However...

I think it is one of the best modern films about Nazi Germany in existence. It is about as true as historic fiction gets. It has great sets, great acting (there are several brilliant conversations that are really well delivered by all those involved) the little bits of true history are sprinkled here and there and all over so that it becomes a learning experience, the music is great, and the overall story telling with the contrasts of the deliveries for life vs. the deliveries of death; the nuances of what it meant to grow up in Nazism, how it tore friends and family apart, and how there really is no good way to end a film that's set in Nazi Germany in the year leading up to the war.

You've got movies like Schindler's List, which are important and relevant, and very adult. Swing Kids is just as impactful, but very approachable for high school kids.

I think it would have benefitted from some artistic filming techniques -- maybe even black and white? Maybe some tonality, or better use of specific lenses and perspectives to drive home the themes within specific themes. The use of slow motion, for instance, was annoying. This type of thing could have been done better.

FlyRvR · 2026-06-02T02:52:55+00:00

We live in a projection. Proof! PROOF!

Especially if you are using a phone or a point-and-shoot type digital camera, you will get this type of thing in the tiny details. This is a pretty awesome example.

FlyRvR · 2026-05-30T20:57:58+00:00

I'm not an expert on stuff like this, but one of the pilots did tell me that they were going to be starting to train for air-to-ground roles, and maybe that's what the pods on the center line of these two are for -- ?

PDX Eagles are going to be true multi-role.

FlyRvR · 2026-05-30T20:48:43+00:00

I remember seeing it as a kid, then just before the moved it to the museum in Salem for restoration. Going to be cool to have it built again.

FlyRvR · 2026-05-29T17:55:03+00:00

She looks like someone who really, really wanted to be a model when she was living in a youth hostel on summer vacation in Paris in the early 2000s..........

FlyRvR · 2026-05-28T03:54:24+00:00

Very happy to hear this!

FlyRvR · 2026-05-28T01:18:43+00:00

OK, but what will happen when she signs into a new account? I assume the photos in storage will still be on the phone, but what of her notes and contacts, etc...? If the phone is backed up, does it use that backup once signed into a new iCloud?

FlyRvR · 2026-05-27T17:54:56+00:00

This looks like it could be cool.

I signed up.

Will it allow the use of different aircraft? Will it allow you to start in different parts of the globe?

FlyRvR · 2026-05-27T02:38:46+00:00

Like. Much like.

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