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@BamaSaltyMarine Satan replies, "Yeah, well that's YOUR problem; I like him here; he's fixing things. God says, "Satan, if you dont give him back, I'm going to SUE YOU. 😶🤨🤔 Really. Where are you going to get a LAWYER?! 🤷🏼‍♂️

@BamaSaltyMarine An engineer dies & goes to Hell. He discovers the A/C is broken, the heat is stuck on full, the pools are infested w/ vermin, none of the refridgeratirs work, etcc. He fixes it all & Satan is pleased. God says, thats a mistake the engineer should've gone to Heaven. ...

A lawyer goes to heaven St Peter meets him at the pearly gates. The lawyer is impressed, but asks "Are you sure it is my time? I'm not that old?" St Peter says "What do you mean? You're 86 years old." The lawyer says "No I'm not...l'm only 58. Why do you think I'm that old! St Peter says "Well, we just added up all of the hours you've billed to your clients."

#出来れば一生使いたくない知識 ヘリコプター等で吊り下げロープ※にて救助される時 （※ホイストと言います） 【ヘリから降りてきたロープに触れないでください】 ※感電します（マジで） 飛行中のヘリは帯電している状態です 最初にホイストを地面（水面）に接触させることによって、機体の静電気を逃がします その後、救難員がロープを貴方の所へもっていきます ロープが下りてきたからといって、つかみにいかないように(｀･ω･´)b 画像：陸自インスタより

@BuzzPatterson I was working a shift as mainframe operator for Security Bank & Trust. A co-worker told me Challenger had exploded. 😳 THEY LAUNCHED IT?! THIS MORNING?! 🥶🥶🥶

Here’s mine. That day, I was flying NASA employees to the tracking station at Ascension Island, South Atlantic. In my USAF C-141 flying years, I often flew NASA support missions to Ascension Island. It’s a joint RAF/USAF base deep in the South Atlantic. It’s a spit of an island whose landscape looks like the Moon — pockmarked volcanic rock and beaches, an undulating runway often populated with sheep or cattle, a mountain peak reaching into the clouds named “Green Mountain” — with some locals and some military/NASA personnel. It’s a beautiful little island with some amazing history. We’d typically fly from Charleston AFB, SC, to Patrick AFB, FL, then on to Antigua for gas (and a cheeseburger), and then the long flight south to the remote island. We called it “the world’s longest straight in.” After takeoff, you flew the same course all the way to the runway. Often late at night. RAF Ascension Island, also known as “Wideawake Airfield” or “Ascension Island Auxiliary Field,” is a military airfield and facility located on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The airfield is currently jointly operated by the Royal Air Force and the United States Space Force. The runway was built by the US during WWII and has been instrumental since then for a number of military operations, most notably the Falkland Islands conflict between Argentina and the UK.  Interestingly, on a historical note, following his defeat in the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon Bonaparte was forced into exile on nearby St. Helena in 1815, where he was guarded by members of the 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot. He later died there.  Flying there was an aircrew adventure. We’d always layover because it was such a long day, and we took advantage of it. The beaches were gorgeous, although the water could be a bit treacherous. Swimming was a little dicey, but we’d go, throw a line in the ocean, fish, and watch the amazing sea life. If you hit the island at the right time, you could watch the sea turtles emerge and lay their eggs in the sand. They even had a banged-up old station wagon that they’d give us Air Force pukes as long as one of us had a driver’s license from Ascension. We called it the “MAC Mobile.” It was a piece of crap, but we loved it! Beer cans rolling around in the back, years of accumulated sand, just a hooptie!  There was also a small town right off base that went back hundreds of years to when the island was used to house sailors interdicting the ships of the African slave trade. There was a small, ancient bar that still had liquor bottles from 400 years previously. It used to be a haven for pirates who plundered the slave trade ships from Western Africa. It was cool. You could feel and smell the history. All the sailors and pirates who hung out there. It was remarkable. The stories, the characters, that must’ve hung out there.  Unfortunately, one of my last flights to Ascension was carrying NASA employees to monitor the flight of the Challenger in 1986. We’d already taken off and were headed south out of Florida. Our jet was full of mission monitors, technicians, etc.  The Challenger launched and exploded while we were a few hours into the flight. We had just departed Antigua. I received an HF radio call from the Air Force informing me of the disaster. We were still 3-4 hours out from Ascension. I thought, “Do I tell the passengers or not?” I decided they needed to know. I told them.  One of the most somber moments in my career. They were devastated. The flight became deathly quiet for the duration. We realized we weren’t done yet as a crew. We needed to keep working. Our crew decided we’d all go to the bar with them when we arrived. And we did. It was a sad evening, but it was cathartic. Painful but necessary.  Crew dog life.

@MCCCANM There was an issue w/ the switches; a 2018 FAA advisory recommended inspection of the switch locking-mechanism. IF a problem was found, switches NEED to be replaced. The switches a components of the throttle-lever assbly. The throttle-lever assbly had been replaced TWICE.

I have never witnessed, nor even heard of, these switches failing. I guess you have to test the possibility to rule it out, but the probability that not one but both switches failed within one second of each other is absurdly low.

The James Webb Space Telescope has done it again: revealing a breathtaking structure now dubbed the “Cosmic Vine”: a string of 20 galaxies stretching across a staggering 13 million light-years! What makes this discovery so shocking? This colossal formation dates back nearly 11 billion years, forming just 3 billion years after the Big Bang, a time when galaxies were thought to still be forming in isolated clumps. Instead, JWST captured a massive, organized structure linking galaxies together much earlier than expected. [image: artist's impression]

@Ahilli_com ...The whirlpool caused the pool walls to bust. There was great lamenting of the number of earthworms that surfaced in the backyard for WEEKS afterwards.

@Ahilli_com ...Afterwards we all went inside & sat around the kitchen-table sharing aldhogiluc beverages w/m8nors. Suddenly there was a rumble, boom & rushing water sound; the pool exploded. ...

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Invader boot kicks European woman in the head. Do you really hate them enough yet? That is the only healthy response. #Portugal #Spain #Lisbon #Lisboa Remigrate every last one of these scum, delivery to destination optional (ocean works wonders).

@OttisUncle @xAviation ...🤔 I fired the motor up & let the plane go when he said he was ready. The plane launched, climbed vertically, became inverted, & nose-dived vertically 50' into the pavement. The Stuka promptly disintegrated into a cloud of parts & plastic-shards.

@OttisUncle @xAviation .049 pwred tethered aircraft were the rage when I was growing up in the 70's. I had a Mustang stunt-trainer. I'd practice flying it w/out engine. My friend had a .049 pwr'd Stuka. He wanted to fly it while the engine was pwr'd up. 🤨 ...

Ok now I want one of these…

@xAviation @TomcatJunkie 😍

Opening of the Grand Couloir 2026 ! The most difficult ski slope in Europe ⚫️⛷️⚠️ Black slope situated in Courchevel !

@RachieRach429 W/ pineapple, shrimp, diced: onions, poblano pepper, garlic, extra sauce, seasoned w/ steak salt, red-pepper flakes, cayenne pepper, jalapeno pepper, topped w/ cheese, baco-bits, mushrooms, black olives & finished under the broiler. 😶🤷🏼‍♂️

I’m thinking you should eat pizza naked with me right now

@BarkyVonS @aviationarchive Not only that, but EVERYTHING was built using slip-sticks. Dad gave me his - he was a patternmaker in the Chevrolet model shop at the Tech Ctr - after buying a calculator that could calculate everything that the slip-stick could ~'75. He also gave me 3-sided drafting ruler.

@aviationarchive It is amazing what they were able to accomplish over 60 years ago. It's not just the advanced technology, it's that they created something so far ahead of its time so quickly. Compare the development time of the A-12/SR-71 to the JSF program.

On September 1, 1974, Maj. James Sullivan and Maj. Noel F. Widdifield flew their SR-71 Blackbird from New York to London in 1 hr 54 min at an average 1,807 mph over 3,461 miles, cruising at 80,000 feet and refueled once.👀

@MCCCANM I 😍 to fly. I always have my face plastered into the window. One landing I couldnt tell we'd landed. One of the pax remarked: We're down. Me: Were DOWN?! Were down. NFW. 😶 I couldnt tell. Ex-AF FO landed the bird. I pumped the PF FO's his hand: OUTSTANDING. SMOOTH

Smooth landing last night. Buttered it on. The FO couldn’t see it due to the tears in his eyes from having witnessed it. We touched down 2,500’ down the runway. Another 500’ & we would have had to go around, can’t guarantee stopping distance. Which is why smooth ≠ good.

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@1Aerosavant @aviationarchive All tooling & machinery to manufacture the -14 were likewise destroyed. Rocketdyne couldnt get an F-1 to run if their lives deoended on it.

@aviationarchive Always remember, it was the entrenched, corrupt, bureaucrat Robert McNamara who killed this masterpiece and ordered the destruction of all the tooling developed to produce it.