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@dracosrevenge so true. driving the new m4 after saying i would never step foot in them after big grille introduction.

BMW has somehow mastered the art of making cars look absolutely hideous just for that same car to grow on you by the 3rd time you see it.

CRANE01 and VADER01 spent an hour together on the ground after VADER arrived from Greenville and before CRANE departed for Andrews Final frame is both 74s with NASA’s 777 4/20/26

Two giants Lufthansa 747 heading to Frankfurt as the A380 arrives from Munich… Perfect timing at LAX

@CHueyBurns old fasionshed in sense just another political "correspondent" waxing above it all and bemoaning outcomes once democrats even field. its a timeless DC tradition.

Call me old fashioned, but: I tend to think gerrymandering is not a good thing, no matter your party. Doesn't seem to serve Americans, or Democracy, well in the long run...

@Heather_Poole Would seem that the more attuned and seasoned travelers across the pond would balk at selecting a narrow body for flight, versus those less aware and consequently leaving you in a more difficult spot as well.

I just checked my personal score and it’s pretty high 😇 Can’t help but wonder how working the XLR will change that. It’s a difficult plane to work. Or how things like the story below will affect it. That’s why the scoring system is ridiculous. How about we fix planes and catering first.

@MCCCANM This is @RaleighWx RDU bait. @RDUAirport

A lot of weather history is generated at airports, in part because they need very accurate weather monitoring. It raises concerns, though. Some stations are now mounted in rocks or asphalt where they were once in grass, the volume of jet engines blowing hot air around increases every year & the airports expand the number of taxiways / runways. In a recent FL event, an all-time temperature record was set…but keen observers noted that a Delta flight (I think it was Delta) with a Ground Delay had sat for about an hour with its engines pointed at the weather station…so the record is dubious at best. In any event, the weather stations are mostly automated. They record all the data constantly, and once an hour produce a report of the *prevailing* conditions at the airport. This is broadcast on a special frequency called ATIS (Automated Terminal Information Service). A computer voice reads out wind, gusts, temperature, dew point, pressure, cloud conditions / ceilings, precipitation & type, as well as any other notable conditions, like the braking action on runways (dry, wet, icy, etc.). If conditions change beyond a certain threshold, a new ATIS will be issued at an earlier interval (normally it’s once an hour) & designated a “Special”. Some will include special notices about important things like runway & taxiway closures, too. The message just repeats over & over – you don’t talk on the ATIS frequency, there is nobody on the other end. That hour’s information is given an alphabetic designator, so ATC can confirm you have the latest ATIS (“we have information Bravo”). At most big airports now, the ATIS is also updated digitally; we pull it up on our iPads & even if the iPad failed, we could get the information from the jet’s computer using the ACARS (Aircraft Communications Addressing & Reporting System). It’s like a miniature internet for aviation that even has chat rooms for us to talk to various people on the ground via text. It’s convenient to not have to tune in the ATIS & listen to it. You are usually out of range until you get close to the descent, where things are getting busy again, so having to wait to listen means you may have programmed the wrong runway for arrival & landing, or may need to divert, and now one of the pilots is trying to listen to two frequencies instead of just approach. Anyway, that’s my short talk about ATIS.

VADER01 N7478D/25-3300, the Qatar gifted 747 destined to be in service as a presidential transport by this summer.

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

@EricC_2002 65 from mobile to montgomery

Ya know I have an idea: ranking boring stretches of interstate 1. I-95 through South Carolina (exception is over Lake Madison) 2. I-20 in Georgia from Augusta to Lake Oconee 3. I-95 in North Carolina 4. I-95 in Virginia (except near Richmond and DC)

@brianstelter why should she have to address it to perpetual online terminal losers?

Dianna Russini is not addressing the nature of her relationship with Mike Vrabel at all. She is blaming "commentators" for "self-feeding speculation that is simply unmoored from the facts" – but is not stating what the facts are... cnn.com/2026/04/14/med…

If the war truly ends with Iran in possession of the strait of Hormuz--as is currently the case--and if negotiations proceed according to Iran's 10-points, which include full sanctions relief and Iran charging tolls for use of the strait, then the outcome of the war will be clear. And it won't be a US victory.

@ChrisCillizza well you clowns and sycophants in super rarified substack world certainly wont let them forget it.

Yup. They desperately want to forget the very leftward lurch — on cultural issues especially — of 2020-2024. Not sure if voters will forget though.

Most normal day at JFK Airport… like a dad trying to figure out which son is lying 😂

@ettingermentum She’s their source for their post presidency books

We certainly heard a lot of fawning about her when she stumbled ass backwards into a 1.5 point win against the least popular Democratic President since Carter. Where are all the reporters now? Did they forget about her?

When are we going to get our big articles about how this doddering moron has presided over the most rapid political collapse of the century?

@ThatchEffendi Yep. My MIL from soviet ukraine and now ukraine would say she’s seen this show before back in 2015 and to buckle up

I've had this conversation with like 20 people at this point but people who know the ex-USSR are the only people who understand what's happening in America. A signifigant portion of the American elite has lost interest in the American project and is stripping the walls of copper wiring, and the American people are letting them do it because they're in denial and obsessed with the equivalents of Limonov and Kashpirovsky.

@PatrickRuffini good lord the whining considering the GOP control of DC.

The gerrymander would make Northern Virginia the main power base in 5 seats vs. 3.5 today. Taking seats from the working class Shenandoah & Tidewater and giving them to the *richest region in the country.* It's Robin Hood in reverse.

@Kristinawong @SecWar low bar of expectations huh.

By my count, @SecWar has briefed the press and American public five times during 13 days of war. Whether the MSM wants to admit it or not, that is an impressive amount for the leader of the Department.

@JenniferJJacobs @CBSNews So it’s a “war”?

Breaking via @CBSNews: After an Iranian vessel sailed too closely to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier, which has been operating in the Arabian Sea in support of the war against Iran, a US Navy vessel attempted to fire on the Iranian one using its Marck-45 gun mounted to the forward deck, but missed multiple times. A helicopter equipped with Hellfire missiles was launched and hit the Iranian vessel with two of the missiles. via @JimLaPorta

@BillMelugin_ This dude is desperate for an admin job

Right now, US law makes it difficult to denaturalize a US citizen unless they committed some sort of fraud during the naturalization process. Congress may want to take up immediate denaturalization & deportation for anyone convicted of supporting terrorists. Just a thought.

Here's a few shots I snapped of the B-21 doing AR tests over California yesterday. Much more to come later 🤙