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If the runway is long enough, what about a power off 180 abeam the numbers, aiming at 1/3rd of the way down the runway? You stay in the airport environment, steep approach so you don't get low on approach, etc? Never tried it, just thinking out loud.....

OK, I thought I was the only one thinking that.....

Ask Whelen who spent 3 years and $1M getting an LED tractor headlight certified as a landing light.

From the number of responses, we're going to need quadratic equations to figure it out.....

They do, but the ones have at ER usually have different verbiage that if you have symptoms, to immediately notify the triage nurse. The guy with the broken hand still has family come with them, with sick kids or sick family, exposing everyone in the waiting room and the people in the ER.

Yes. Potential patients who are not already admitted must enter through the ER. What they are saying is, if you are sick, stay out! Get treated at your doc or the ER, but don't come in and walk around the hospital and expose patients and staff.

All true. For the uninitiated, that's why 80s Japanese bikes are called "universal Japanese motorcycles". They share many of the same parts, and are notoriously difficult to tell apart when the company logos are removed.

The reverse of that is called "herd immunity". That there are enough immune members of the community that there too few carriers and too few susceptible members for an outbreak to take off. Vaccines don't have to be 100% effective. They just have to reduce the rate of re-transmissions...

I don't know for sure, but I would guess it was a cheap car disproportionately driven by people with the bad combination of the exuberance of youth, inexperience, and poor driving skills. In addition, it was driven by adults who couldn't afford anything better than the worst used car due to...

In 12 years doing EMS, I realized that we would be a lot less busy of more people watched Road Runner cartoons growing up. If they watched Wile E. Coyote, they would know to stay out of the road, not to cut the brach over their head (or the one they are sitting on), don't play with...

And they deserve it for the Cimarron. An abomination. I can recognize Cavaliers from small bits of intact body. I spent several years as a Traffic Homicide Investigator, and it seems like every 2nd major crash involved a Cavalier. In the 90s and 00s, there was better than 50/50 that a...

Mine's been in for annual. Found a crack in the rudder requiring replacement (which reinforces why we do annuals), plus a few other things. Up to $4k so far. Good news it'll be ready to fly Saturday..... It's only money, right?

Yeah. An MD friend of mine had some type of corrective surgery, and it went bad. With glasses she has to hold things three inches from her eyes to read, and her distance vision and night vision are crap. I know the success rate is extremely high (in the well over 99% range), but the...

The body had some different character lines, but most importantly the front clip and turn signal lenses had a different shape to them. More vertical and squared off. vs

No problem! On second look, I almost certain the bike is a Kawasaki KZ1000. The dual front discs were rare back then, and the front forks and fender look very much like the non-police model KZ.

The car is a Chevy Cavalier (about a 1988). Like Greg said, the bike is 80's universal Japanese motorcycle, although it looks vaguely Yamaha to me (I had a UJM Suzuki and Honda, and it doesn't look Kawi to me).

A bit before that. A guy named Brutus comes to mind..... Plus Pharaoh Ramses III was assassinated about 1200BC. I agree that we don't want choice of leaders decided by assassins, but at times it does seem that politicians seem to think they are irreplaceable. Charles DeGaulle said "The...

Exactly. The plane either was taking off or landing, either way one would expect that the controller would notice if an aircraft went suddenly missing somewhere between the runway and pattern altitude.

Depends on if it was reported (i.e, public by a whackjob who got a shot off, as opposed to plots disrupted). Clinton was almost taken out by a bomb under a bridge the motorcade was supposed to go over. "Last minute intel" rerouted the motorcade, the bomb was found under the bridge (I put...

Good women are harder to find than good instructors. Good women who share your love of aviation are even harder to find. Take a shot. If it doesn't work, so be it. In my entire life, the only things I've ever regretted are the things I didn't try.