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    Pitch vs. power - causes of excessive sink and hard landings

    Have you thought about putting a camera on one of your tiedown hoops pointing at your landing gear? You can get an adapter on Amazon for $60 (search for 'camera airplane mount'), and there are action cameras for about the same price. They're not nearly as good as the GoPro ones, but they're good...
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    Where are all the IT jobs?

    Google does an Information Technology Residency Program, which is fixed term (26 months), and I think the idea is that it's a good starting point for IT career. I'm too new to post a link here, but if you go to the google careers page and search for 'Information Technology Residency Program'...
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    Little Man Syndrome

    My suspicion is that people like to assign 'little man syndrome' to short people due to a pervasive societal prejudice against the short, not because they're acting any differently to a taller person.
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    Plug the fuel tank leak with your fingers.

    It's worth remembering that the DH9 fuel tank was in the front by the engine, and as a WWI biplane there would have been a lot of wires and struts to brace against. I'm not suggesting it didn't require intestinal fortitude, but it's not quite the same as trying to do the same thing to a fuel...
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