LightningZ71
LightningZ71
LightningZ71

It was the cuts in higher education... no, the hospitals... That’s it, the hospital funding cuts caused it!

You live in CenLA? I feel for you man! Get yo rear back down here!

Only the euro focus shared a platform with the Mazda3. The US focus was based on an earlier platform called the C170 up until a few years ago, when it was transitioned to the global C2 platform. The current MAzda3 is based on a Mazda evolution of the C1 platform (mainly putting it on a diet).

The USDM first generation Focus use the old C170 platform, which was the launch platform for the Focus all over the place. The Euro focus transitioned to the C1 platform, which differed heavily from the C170. The USDM gen 1.5 Focus kept the C170 platform, but gave it a new “top hat” which was a complete reskin and

I can totally relate to this. On my honeymoon, with the new wife in tow, we had decided to hit the Smokeys and hung out in Gatlinburg, TN for a week. You can only walk down the scenic areas and visit the little specialty stores so many times before you want some adrenaline pumping excitement. Off we go to the

This entire project has been a mess, just like you have said. And the sad and sorry truth is that, for a fraction of the cost, there are literally tons of B767-200s that have been retired to the boneyards that, if the requirements of the KC-46 hadn’t been so crazy high to being with, would have been perfect for this

Why not just make it a solid piece of plexiglass and use edge locates, LED laser based interrupt sensors? IE, vertical and horizontal bars shooting a grid of led lasers across the display with another two bars of little photocells to pick up those lights. When the light is interrupted, calculate where the intersection

The one single worthy justification that I ever heard for the remote boom operator was that the area of the aircraft that would need to be pressurized during normal flight operations would be greatly reduced. Basically, you’d have an expanded cockpit/flight deck that would hold 2 pilots, 1 boom operator, and likely a

There is absolutely NO, ZERO, NADA, ZIP, ZILCH need for new-built military cargo aircraft at the moment. For 75% of the military’s cargo operation needs, there is an absolute sea of low cycle, low mileage B-747-400F aircraft out in the boneyards that NOBODY wants. A VERY modest program could have as many of those as

I can readily locate, through enterprise or hertz, used half ton pickups with around 25k miles on them for less than $30k. For instance, three different 2014 f150 supercab sb xlt v8s within free transfer range of me for between $25k and $28k. All are clean looking, come with warranty coverage, and have good service

I had a 99 f-150 xlt with the 4.2l v6. Xcab, sb, auto. As compared to my FIL’s 97 lariat with the 4.6l v8, same bed, same cab, same auto, I was just as fast, could haul just as much safely, and got better gas mileage on the highway. The paper specs weren’t that far apart on our trucks and in the real world, it was a

Feel free to hate on us all you want, but, of our five kids, most are in the 18-21 month gap between births range. There’s a rather big gap on our last one because of a miscarriage. And, to be totally clear on all of this:

While I’m not here to go into a huge debate over the topic, it doesn’t necessarily blow those idea completely out of the water. It is easily arguable that “life” begins at the moment that the life sustaining activities for it begin. The lump of cells that forms soon after conception is carrying on life sustaining

I absolutely do not dispute that the price of oil and distillates will go back up, but, it won’t hit $10 a gallon for gas, or $200 a barrel for raw crude. There may be a month or two where the prices fluctuate quite wildly, but, within a quarter, there will be something approaching normalcy, and at pricing levels that

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I’ve read elsewhere that both the MiG 29s and the F-14s have seen some considerable electronics work done to them. Given that the F-14 was integrated with the sparrow and the sidewinder as well as the phoenix, and given how poor the reliability on Phoenix missiles was when they were stored for long periods of time,

Remember that recent run-up in the price of crude? Remember how all those new, deep wells were tapped on the continental shelf, and those new oil fields developed in the Dakotas, and more fields were opened up in other areas of the country. Did you notice how Brazil established its own big off-shore rigs, and china

Wish it was based on the 777-200LR. You can have your fuel pretty much anywhere you like it, from anywhere you care to send it...

Better than Heinz Jalapeno, Heinze Tabasco! You take Heinz Ketchup, the true king of all Ketchups, and combine it during the mixing process with Tabasco sauce right out of the aging barrel, and you have, my friend, the true gift of the condiment gods unto us all!

I’m seconding this! I’ve been stung in the back, through a regular shirt and undershirt, by one of those flying turds and OMFG did it hurt. And it didn’t stop hurting for days! Pay those bastards the proper respect, cleanse them with fire!