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  1. ElPaso Pilot

    737 Wing strike — Boeings just aren’t safe to fly in

    Didn’t consider it as political, and didn’t read the article. Relevant NFL thread here and the plane melted its right wing. Just found the headline humorous in juxtaposition with the video. Deleted. Sorry to have bothered you.
  2. ElPaso Pilot

    Lets make Friday 'Joke Day'!

    John asks his high school crush Mary to the senior prom. The day arrives, and he picks her up in his dad’s car, sporting a fresh new suit, and he’s just buzzing with excitement to be going out with the most beautiful girl in the world. Once they arrive Mary insists they take their picture...
  3. ElPaso Pilot

    It’s just a ****ing game

    It's simple. Because the mention of her name and images of her face has been shown to draw clicks and views, which directly sells more advertisements and raises more revenue, then if they didn't show it. Engagement algorithms rule what we see today. And it's reinforced with every eyeball...
  4. ElPaso Pilot

    Is this legal???

    The googles are not transparent. There are front facing cameras, a solid body, and projection displays on the inside. If the battery dies, the electronics futz up, or any number of other failure modes occur, the world goes dark.
  5. ElPaso Pilot

    Lets make Friday 'Joke Day'!

    Congratulations to me! Just saved me a ****-ton of money on car insurance! And it was easy. I just shifted into reverse and left the scene.
  6. ElPaso Pilot

    Lets make Friday 'Joke Day'!

    McGinty died while water-skiing. The oblivious boat driver didn't notice at first, and dragged poor McGinty's lifeless corpse around the lake for half an hour. On the bright side, he had an amazing wake.
  7. ElPaso Pilot

    Lets make Friday 'Joke Day'!

    Three rednecks were working up on a cell phone tower: Cooter, Ronnie and Donnie. As they start their descent, Cooter slips, falls off the tower and is killed instantly. As the ambulance takes the body away, Ronnie says, "Well, shucks, someone should go and tell his wife." Donnie says, "OK, I'm...
  8. ElPaso Pilot

    Missing Plane Paris, Texas

    Transcript from the comments: "Addison Tower Career Track 655 is actually going to depart to the east— uh I’m climbing up through the clouds and then just gonna’ head out outside of everything And about right now you’ll probably realize that I’m not gonna listen to y’alls instructions and I’m...
  9. ElPaso Pilot

    What is Going on at KBJC (Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport)/Cost to Relocate Port a Port Hangar

    The "Double Wide Trailer Home" of airplane hangers. Usually segregated into rusty clusters and delegated off to the slums, or some other remote corner of your neighborhood airport.
  10. ElPaso Pilot

    Iphone messaging

    That would be it. This seems to occasionally reset itself on OS upgrades. Uncheck the one you don't want to receive from on each respective phone and you're good to go.
  11. ElPaso Pilot

    Looks Ugly ... Pilot Has Minor Injuries

    And I thought someone tried a "Dukes of Hazzard" with a Tesla Cybertruck for a moment.
  12. ElPaso Pilot

    ATC and Tower Too busy to conduct training due to staffing issues

    5 minutes of research from source publications: This is a DOT program https://www.transportation.gov/drc/employment-people-disabilities The DOT has 55,930 employees as of Nov, 2023; 45,562 of those are with the FAA...
  13. ElPaso Pilot

    What DON'T I know about paint?

    That's not surprising. When I was in the Big 3 doing this, we were severely limited by EPA air permit to a certain low number of tons/year of VOCs per exhaust stack. The only paints we could use flowed like crap and orange peel was a given. Small shops didn't have the same restrictions, or...
  14. ElPaso Pilot

    Alaska Airlines explosive decompression 1/5/23

    And Defazio says Boeing has been "happy with the crappy stuff from Spirit because it's cheap". https://news.sky.com/story/boeing-accused-of-relying-on-crappy-stuff-from-subcontractor-after-737-max-9-mid-air-blowout-13045085
  15. ElPaso Pilot

    Alaska Airlines explosive decompression 1/5/23

    Other Spirit quality issues reported, while simultaneously being pushed by Boeing to increase production rate. https://www.flightglobal.com/airframers/boeing-pushing-production-rates-to-keep-suppliers-hot-despite-delivery-slowdown/155547.article Boeing Commercial Airplanes lost $678 million...
  16. ElPaso Pilot

    Low cost cellular wi-fi for hangar??

    There are potential solutions other than repeaters for this task. A directional antenna may work.
  17. ElPaso Pilot

    Lets make Friday 'Joke Day'!

    They call it a Boeing because that's the noise the seat makes when it gets yeeted through the gaping hole in the fuselage…
  18. ElPaso Pilot

    Alaska Airlines explosive decompression 1/5/23

    This was a dummy plug that should have been bolted in place, not a latching door.
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