Jalopnik is great but when aircraft accidents happen, the floodgates open.

No idea what happened here but an autorotation does not by default equal a hard landing and a hard landing does not equal a roll over.. and “nearly all helo landings in water result in a roll over”??? No shit genius, Trump is your prize.

This is a conversation - if I sound like I’m being an ass, I’m not, you sound like you know what you’re talking about to some degree. I’m a pilot - 27 years in helicopters, airplanes and poorly driven cars that left the ground.

I think when you get right down to it what you’re asking is; “is this a shitstain of an idea dreamed up by imbeciles as a distraction to the real problem????”

You’re absolutely right.

It goes without saying that any phrase starting with “Trump wants..”, “Trump says..” or “Trump thinks..” will be followed by some jaw dropping naive stupidity.

You’re right, I only watch the majors and the Ryder Cup at this point and while I didn’t watch a minute of this tourny the fact that Tiger was wearing red in anger again on a Sunday had my eye on the ticker throughout the day.

109th Airlift Wing LC-130s

No this is bullshit, legality aside I might ask questions like this to find the first person that says “fuck you and the lint ball you rode in on” and hire them.

Mike Pence asking stupid questions on behalf of the Colts and Mother is a new low for the Colts but a step up from the Trumpster Fire.

I didn’t watch the video and haven’t landed down there so don’t know what the runway elevation is but if it’s 9000' then the air is thin and the props and wings need help hence the JATO bottles. Side note - we’re running out of JATO bottles and no one makes them anymore so the AF C-130s that do Antarctica and…

I’ve landed helicopters and C-130s on snow and dirt wearing NVGs and the problem with landing on any surface with no contrast (everything the same color) is there is very little depth perception and the landing checklist is more or less “brace yourselves”. That’s when the crewchief on a helo or the Nav/copilot in an…

Don’t know if it’s mentioned in the video but C-130s have a sextant hole in the cockpit above the Nav’s seat which was used a lot prior to our current more precise navigational tools. Now near the Poles where Longitudinal lines converge and compasses get weird is the only place sextant navigation is still used by…

The Bruins team that won The Cup that year was magical from the start - they did a preseason tour through Europe which finished up in Belfast NI. That team regardless of management would have kicked the shit out of anyone including the old time Soviets and the Cylons.

Krejci is a fucking stud, Seguin I’m pretty sure got my dog pregnant and I think Kessel might be eating my ice cream and sleeping on my futon every night.

So when do these batteries have an effect on something that’s actually useful, like the military aircraft I fly? That’s not sarcastic, I’m really curious.

The saddest and funniest parts of a joke are too often easily confused.

“his lawyer contacted two urologists who gave a statement claiming that Cuban physically could not have committed the assault in question: [Cuban] is a large male with large hands, making penetration without lubrication of the woman in the standing position virtually impossible.”

They didn’t win by wooing millenials (sorry I didn’t read the article as I don’t care for millenials or cylons) I’m pretty sure they won by wooing people of all ages that prefer pizza that tastes good.

“That’s not what the president meant”
“The president was only joking”
“He was totally misunderstood”
“I haven’t talked to the president about that”