I don’t know if this really counts as “survived.” Had he left it alone until the fire burned itself out I’m not sure how much puck would have been left.

I don’t know. The first iPhone pretty much sucked. The first iPad pretty much sucked. They eventually succeeded anyway because Apple was able to address the issues and feedback with subsequent releases. I think they will eventually get it to be somelthing that large enough segment of the population will want. I guess…

No. No it will not. Oh, heck, anyone still watching doesn’t care if any of this resembles reality in any way. Go for it.

Were you commenting because he destroyed the watch, or that a $10K watch exists in the first place?

I know I don’t. Another question, do we know for a fact that it was an operational unit?

I’d be amazed if those Sea Kings had less than 10K hours. It is my understanding that airframe hours are less critical in a helicopter than a fixed wing aircraft. However the dynamic components are more critical in a helo.

I know US land based aircraft have the hook, but do the SAABs?

These seats in modern aircraft are 0-0 rated. That is 0 altitude and 0 airspeed. That means if the pilot is sitting still on the ground and something goes catastrophically wrong, he should in theory be able to eject safely.

There are two types of lease that I am aware of. One is a straight up lease like you would get with a car. You pay X amount for Y time and during that time you get the aircraft, you are required to keep the aircraft up and you return it at the end of the lease at which point it gets sold to a third world country. You…

It turns out so in this case. If it was headed straight down the runway, sure, stick with it. But if it looked like it was heading for the grass before he punched out, then it’s a tough call. If it had flipped somehow it could have been worse.

I’m not sure in this case that it “saved” him. Looks to me like he would have been fine riding it out. Not that I blame him, he probably only punched out when he realized that it wasn’t going to stay on the runway.

If I thought I could make more than $10K via advertising with page hits, views, or an increase in my subscriber base, I would do it.

Some of the items in that post are like saying I could have bought 100,000 oranges instead of an F-150.

If you will recall, at this stage of the F-22 program everyone was just as down on it. There would have been absolutely no support in congress (except for Georgia and Texas) for such a thing. It wasn’t until after the government decided to shut down the assembly line that the general public seemed to think the plane…

I think you misunderstand my point. I’m saying that all-white is no better or worse than all-chinese.

Who are you to question other people’s racial identity? So what if she was born to Caucasian parents. Her parents are not who she is. She identifies as a black woman. You should respect that. She isn’t doing this to mock anyone. This is no different than Caitlyn Jenner.

I don’t get the Kung Fu part. The character was half Caucasian and half Chinese. How would Bruce Lee (all Chinese) have been better? Would you have called it “yellow washing” if Bruce had gotten the role? Would the only acceptable way to cast the role been with someone of the correct mixed ethnicity?

tl;dr: Chinese don’t pay any attention to copyright and other IP constructs; the US is hampered by lawyers and patent trolls.

Ten feet would probably be a new record when it comes to hostile intercepts

My point was more that the FHA, now and before the housing bubble, guarantees loans for people who meet certain criteria (like first time homebuyers). The FHA has actual requirements for the houses to be guaranteed, like passing an inspection. There doesn’t seem to be any corresponding requirement for guaranteed…