mrmcderm

11/1/24

VFR pilot here, so take my comment with a grain of salt, but if the pilot was in IMC (instrument meteorological conditions) and their primary flight displays were offline, and secondary were also suspect, *and* they started feeling vertigo - they could have been in a situation where their body could have been telling…

10/4/24

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution.

The Lancer was a boring, cheap, and poorly built economy car where it was a race to see if it rusted out around itself before the engine spun a bearing (or similar).

The Evo on the other hand was a cool looking, fire breathing rally car that could hang with BMW M3s of the same era (in the…

9/18/24

It probably took that DC3 a lot longer to get those altitudes than a jet airliner, giving your ears that much more time to equalize.

8/9/24

Yeah, I just saw this article from WaPo (Assessing claims about Tim Walz’s military service - The Washington Post) that lays out a similar timeline.

I’m not going to defend Walz semantics - he’s made a couple of statements that are misleading and he needs to start being a lot more clear - but starting as early as fall o…

8/9/24

and likely in the green zone. but he went over, and I didn’t so imma be the last guy to talk shit about his service

8/9/24

I have not seen the paperwork with my own eyes, so grain of salt and all that, but a senior enlisted solder from Walz’s unit specified that the deployment orders for the unit came down after Walz put in his retirement packet. They all knew it was going to be inevitable that they deploy, but the question was when, and…

8/8/24

This. So much this. An E4 calling out an E9, Vance needs to GFH. Sure Vance spent 6 months in the sand but he was still a REMF MOS while Walz was Artillery

7/26/24

I mean, it was effectively a Beetle which were fun to look at but also garbage to drive.

7/18/24

I mean, getting ejected from Malaysia ended up working out really well for Singapore. They have a higher GDP per capita than the U.S., although they have significantly restricted civil liberties compared to the U.S.

7/9/24

7/1/24

Rapid descents aren’t that bad. I’ve been involved in one for a similar situation. The pitch of the engines changes as they throttle back, there is a slight and brief feeling of negative g’s when the pilots (or auto pilot) pushes the nose over, but that’s it. A few seconds after that the descent is established and the…

7/1/24

This. ^^^

Assuming they were at cruise altitude of 35,000ft, the instant the flight crew received a pressurization warning the likely donned their oxygen masks and busted out their “loss of pressurization” checklist (although some of that checklist might be memory items)

Regardless, once they established oxygen flow and…

6/14/24

Cops (actually Michigan DNR) at the beaches we go to use quads. Seems like they’re better suited to that sort of mission.

6/13/24

That’s a good call out, but yes, I’ve tested both. I have a carbon frame so I’m assuming that’s why I don’t get any signal loss.

6/13/24

Depends on where you live. I live in the Chicago area. Hardtails are great. If I lived in Colorado, I wouldn’t consider one at all.

6/12/24

Woof. That’s a big question. I think at some point if you have the right fundamentals on a bike then it just becomes a matter of marginal gains with price increase (some wide margins, some narrow), but riding and trail style factors in as well.

For example, if you’re willing to spend around $1k on a new hardtail mountai…

6/12/24

As the owner of a current gen Scott Spark 910, this is one of my biggest fears (fortunately I don’t live anywhere close to Silicon Valley).

I have both an AirTag and a Tile hidden inside my frame, as well as an “If Found please contact...” label rolled up and tucked into my handlebar.

Not sure the latter would help at…

6/10/24

I have questions. First off, why didn’t the IndiGo aircraft execute a go-around? They had to have seen the Air India aircraft roll on to the runway...

6/10/24

Sure, but in legit transactions the vehicle is titled in *your name* with the bank listed as a lien holder. You legally own the car, but the bank has a lien on it until you finish paying off the loan and can repo if you don’t

If the BHPH place didn’t actually put the title in the lady’s name, then that could explain…