Totally agree. Records that state the pilot “flew from A to B” imply the flight was a single leg. Those who claim such records while stopping for fuel/repairs/sleep are ridiculous.

At what point did “reasonable precaution” jump the shark to “booger-eating overreaction”?

We live near downtown Houston, which has a growing population of, ahem, urban campers. They are not shy about approaching people, and especially women, and aggressively soliciting donations to support their chosen lifestyles.

We kind of spur-of-the-moment bought an M3 AWD a week ago, so I’m way too new at this to be a fan boy. I *am* a lifetime car guy, who has rebuilt a carb, rebuilt a brake system, pushed sportbikes hard, owned sports cars, etc. I’d put the M3 up against any other car on the road, at any price, with the exception of its “…

To continue your analogy, if Dunkin corporate makes an app so the end users can locate the nearest franchisee and order a dozen long johns and a large coffee online, the end users are still not corporate’s customers; corporate has just added value for its customers (the franchisees) and will charge them accordingly.

Your math is pretty good. But, take out a student loan for tuition, and assume that after four years of hard work and sacrifice you’ll jump from $20K per year to, say, $40K per year, and you have now described the way it’s supposed to work.

So, I flew with and shot the Aim-54 Phoenix missile. It was originally designed to intercept high, fast Russian fliers, coming over the horizon in waves to launch cruise missiles at our boats. It was a thousand pound, Mach 5, 80,000 foot capable, little wing man, with its own radar for terminal guidance. If you were…

PLB

He would have had to

Here’s a good one:

Here’s a good one:

Six miles in 35 minutes means a sub-6:00 mile x 6 miles. If you can walk that, enter the Olympics. Similarly, you’d be maintaining 24 MPH on a bike for 15 minutes straight: it’s possible, but rare in normal humans.

So, it would be easy, then, to just say what needed to be done about the guns prior to the Santa Fe murders. What should have been done about the guns that would have stopped that ghoulish kid from his rampage? Just say it.

Only the police should have guns, right?

Skids

Also, military jet pilots routinely call our engines, “motors.”

I flew a couple dozen flights with the guy in the first picture; he was my Ops O at VF-201 in Fort Worth in 1997-98. He had just landed his jet after the mid-air, in that photo. You can see he had taken the field arresting gear.

Then, in the baggage claim area, the same dipshits will crowd right up against the carousel, reducing the number of people who can access their bags, reducing visibility to the bags, and requiring those removing their bags to bang the knees of everyone crowded in too close.

I kinda thought we had already reached the point where we consider women the equals of men. As such, is it not both redundant and a little insulting when we trumpet women accomplishing well-established human achievements? (A dozen men did this great thing 38 years ago.)

Your photo improperly shows an Airsoft gun, which will have an orange muzzle. A BB gun, for all intents and purposes, looks exactly like a firearm.