But the Gran National so bad ass!

I hope someone took the time to read and digest what you just wrote. It was very lucid and free from BS.

Blair Simpkins

Fort Mill, SC

Ronald Ervin McNair, Ph.D. (October 21, 1950 – January 28, 1986) Lake City, SC was an African American physicist and NASA astronaut. McNair perished during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L.

Blair Simpkins

Fort Mill, SC

I can't belive I used a split infinitive in that last post, ugh!

Here is the correction.

"I am also an avid aviator".

I'm a 44 year old male; I work with computers; I like the internet. I also am an avid aviator and nothing frees you from the virtual world like speeding past whispy clouds at 170 mph a mile above the earth. Or, a peaceful walk in the forest.

B.

P.S. I went six months without a cell phone - it was awesome.

An aerodynamic stall only has to do with the relative airflow over the wing. Take a glider for example. Slowly bring the nose up, slowing the aircraft, slowing the wind over the wing and it will reach a critical speed which the wing cannot produce lift and the aircraft will be overcome by gravity.

For the book types. A wing’s stalling speed and angle is not constant. A fully loaded aircraft stalls at a higher airspeed and a more narrow angle of attack. This is known as load factor. A wing can be artificially loaded by performing a high G turn or pulling out of a dive. Recovering from a stall too abruptly can induce a second deeper stall.

In small high powered prop driven aircraft flown very slowly and at full power can induce reverse control. The torque of the big prop is turning the aircraft left so you have to use right rudder and ailerons to coordinate the turn. And of course lower the nose (angle of attack) to climb. This is not fun close to the ground.

Thanks. I did not know that.

Blair

and we recently had a property to sale tax swap to give the State some central money to spend equally.

My child's public elementry school was a National Blue Ribbon winner in 2007 and can match any private school in performance. It is absolutly spotless, has very well behaved children and very modern classrooms.

This no accident. Our community demands high results, passes every school levy and has 100% parent participation.

So I guess you can say we value education and are willing to put forth the effort to have great schools.

B.

This aircraft was on an approach segment in hard instrument conditions. With precious cargo onboard, the crew will use all available tools, including the advanced autopilot. Most tail-plane stalls make the airplane pitch down, but the dash-8 might be aft CG and uses the tail-plane to lift the rear.

Turbo prop aircraft are very safe and will always be around. Jet’s can’t touch them for STOL. The big difference is that jets have anti-ice and turbo-props have de-ice. Anti-ice prevents ice, de-ice removes it. I believe that the regs state that with de-ice continued flight into know icing is prohibited.

My question to Patrick is, why did they continue the approach? I can’t imagine with significant ice they could perform a single engine missed approach. My intuition is that they would exercise caution and divert to their alternate.

this kind of man-animal bond only exist wiht dogs. The co-evolution goes back at least 25,000 years when the cave men used wolves as sentinals.

What is missing in this artical is the simple fact that our dogs only vew us as the leader of the pack - not their mate or parent.

We care for them as if they are children, but to them, you are just another dog. Dogs can happily move from one family to another and can give two shits about you, as long as the new alpha is providing food and shelter.

Does this make any difference? No, I simply can't live without a good-ole hound.

begining to like Glenn Greenwald. Today, for the first time in 5 years he's shown objectivity and has me on his side for once. I agree that the executive branch has become too powerful.

The "smart grid" technology is part optimization in generation, some new million volt transmission lines, all well and good.

The part they don't tell you about is demand management. A little box that can turn off your electricity remotely, presumably under Obama - by the government.

Obama is not a socialist, he's a fascist.

we build anything better? As a typical right-winger, I'm a certified gun nut. But I won’t buy an American firearm unless it was manufactured before 1980, with some very few exceptions. European guns are much better quality, especially fit and finish.

like an airline pilot. Until after he retires from swimming he has to maintain self discipline, lest he abandons millions of dollars to retire on. He exercised extremely poor judgment and will pay dearly.

As I recall an IFR flight requires enough fuel to fly to the primary, shot 2 approches, fly to the alternate + 45 min.

B.