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Sometimes, its hard to see the forest for the trees.

Phony Chinese titanium bought by Turkish Aerospace Industries; distributed to multiple secondary aviation parts suppliers, whose components were bought by Spirit. Gotta love global supply chains.

Saw this today. I guess he’s had prior experience with the line guy, too.

Adding another bailer to that list!!!

Looking at some of the photos, the ceiling was destroyed by beverage carts and head-shaped impacts. No floating.

The descent rate was likely not distributed equally over the 4.6 seconds. A big hit initially, with a more gentle recovery after the pilots got over the shock and awe.

Now here's someone who knows how to utilize AI the right way. But, you need to change the prompt to include the word "Nantucket", like all proper limericks.

Which was eventually found by a Turkish drone. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-iran-used-turkish-drone-find-raisi-helicopter

Interestingly, they requested assistance from the "Great Satan" in locating their own presidential helo. https://www.reuters.com/world/us-says-it-was-unable-provide-iran-assistance-after-helicopter-cash-2024-05-20/

Ha! The smaller Versa has magical combination of less room, lower HP and worse MPG than the Sentra. But you can get a base manual.

The misinterpretation by most folks of AI having any source of truth is astounding. As a population we are misusing and mis-marketing the capability of the tool. A large language model makes excellent, apparently credible and believable output. Makes great first passes at generating text...

AI citation hallucinations, with a topic relevant to this forum! https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-fake-case-lawyers-d6ae9fa79d0542db9e1455397aef381c Lawyers submitted bogus case law created by ChatGPT <in an aviation injury claim>. A judge fined them $5,000 NEW YORK...

"max demonstrated crosswind component is not a limitation it's what they decided an 'average' pilot can safely land in." Or what the crosswind component just happened to be on the day and location where their test pilot did the demonstration. Could be completely unrelated to airframe capability.

Wankel onboard generator swap! Sweet 9000 rpm RV park sounds, all evening long.

Injesting/breathing lead dust is bad mojo for a number of reasons. I didn’t know lung cancer was one of them.

Interesting longer transcript of the Judge's comments from the video above, for those who didn't watch it. Red paragraph is where the Judge lets loose. "First of all, thank you for your presentations. Thank the friends and family of Halyna for presenting their memories and their losses of...