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Kazinsal posted:In the *armpit*. big artery there he knew what he was doing
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Another plane from Asia, AIR ASIA to be exact, missing. edit : it wasn't even on a long haul flight.
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ded posted:Another plane from Asia, AIR ASIA to be exact, missing. Is there an aviation equivalent to D.W.A.?
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tbf the one where their plane got blown up by drunk ukrainian hill people shouldn't count not a single thing actually happened as a result of that, right? besides the netherlands begging for the hill people to send the corpses home?
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Bolow posted:What the gently caress is North Korea going to do? People being terrified of a country that can't even feed its own people while being trapped in the 1950's is so mind blowingly retarded I can't even comprehend it. Are people terrified of it?
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ded posted:Another plane from Asia, AIR ASIA to be exact, missing. This happened while I was in the air from the U.S. to Japan, no wonder my old man was so happy to hear me call him when I landed.
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Is this gonna be some bullshit about the plane flying through weather they could plainly see was extremely hosed up
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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:Is this gonna be some bullshit about the plane flying through weather they could plainly see was extremely hosed up The pilot requested a divert due to bad weather along the flight path, but the air traffic controllers said he was fine, so he attempted to fly through with expected results.
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Dec 28, 2014 09:35
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orange juche posted:The pilot requested a divert due to bad weather along the flight path, but the air traffic controllers said he was fine, so he attempted to fly through with expected results. Oh you're involved in the investigation? drat that's some quick work. 
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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:Is this gonna be some bullshit about the plane flying through weather they could plainly see was extremely hosed up 
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Bolow posted:What the gently caress is North Korea going to do? People being terrified of a country that can't even feed its own people while being trapped in the 1950's is so mind blowingly retarded I can't even comprehend it. The Cubans managed to blow some poo poo up in the US back in the 90s.
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LongDarkNight posted:The Cubans managed to blow some poo poo up in the US back in the 90s. Yeah but North Koreans can't row to California on a '53 Buick.
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Godholio posted:Yeah but North Koreans can't row to California on a '53 Buick. 
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Godholio posted:Yeah but North Koreans can't row to California on a '53 Buick. 
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Koesj posted:Oh you're involved in the investigation? drat that's some quick work. 
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Fuuuuuuuuck that!
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Looks like central Florida in the summertime.
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At least the passengers get to keep their heads after the plane crashes
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:At least the passengers get to keep their heads after the plane crashes Or wallets and cellphones.
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i just had a horrible idea. any bets this was due to a frozen pitot tube that wasn't retrofitted due to ~reasons~ ?
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Or a hella E: I wonder if the pilot had any experience flying in inclement weather. orange juche fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Dec 29, 2014 |
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orange juche posted:Or a hella downdraft from that gigantic fuckoff thunderstorm they tried to fly through. Downdraft means no lift means you fall out of the sky like a brick.  Microbursts are a bitch
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not gonna lie read that as "Vaginas of Rain" the first time
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Jesus christ I can't spell today.
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Microbursts and windshear are no joke pucker inducing. Especially microbursts.
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Typically you just don't loving fly through that poo poo but apparently planes go down due to it in Africa all the time
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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:Typically you just don't loving fly through that poo poo but apparently planes go down due to it in Africa all the time They're difficult to detect. It's a sky queef.
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Mods pls change my name to Sky Queef tia.
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Helldump Immunity. posted:Mods pls change my name to Sky Queef Latiffah tia. OMFG PTSD LOL PBUH fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Dec 29, 2014 |
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Derek Dominoe posted:Is there an aviation equivalent to D.W.A.? Kamikaze attacks were just confused Japanese pilots trying to land on the wrong boat holocaust bloopers posted:Microbursts and windshear are no joke pucker inducing. Especially microbursts. My brother rented a sail plane to take me up flying a few years ago in New Mexico. We were up around some mountains as a cloud came up over them while we were riding the mountain's 'wave' and gaining altitude. Then we got a small, but very nasty microburst as we were in the part of the flight path facing away from the mountain. It felt like we were in a drag race because it just pushed us so hard and so fast. It flexed the wings back as we accelerated with the burst before he VERY gently turned us about 45 degrees away from it an toward the little glider airport we had taken off from. Booblord Zagats fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Dec 29, 2014 |
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Cross posting from the Vet thread...The Rat posted:Good article, more serious than the usual stuff here: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/12/the-tragedy-of-the-american-military/383516/ iyaayas01 posted:When the civil-military relationship in this country inevitably self destructs in another decade or two (right around the same time DoD as a whole finally collapses under the weight of its ineptitude and incompetence), we can point to this article and say "well he tried to warn us." quote:If I were writing such a history now, I would call it Chickenhawk Nation, based on the derisive term for those eager to go to war, as long as someone else is going. It would be the story of a country willing to do anything for its military except take it seriously. As a result, what happens to all institutions that escape serious external scrutiny and engagement has happened to our military. Outsiders treat it both too reverently and too cavalierly, as if regarding its members as heroes makes up for committing them to unending, unwinnable missions and denying them anything like the political mindshare we give to other major public undertakings, from medical care to public education to environmental rules. The tone and level of public debate on those issues is hardly encouraging. But for democracies, messy debates are less damaging in the long run than letting important functions run on autopilot, as our military essentially does now. A chickenhawk nation is more likely to keep going to war, and to keep losing, than one that wrestles with long-term questions of effectiveness Also worth reading this companion piece, which is the 2011 memo (briefly mentioned at the end of the first piece) that he and some other dudes put together and sent to Obama, where it was promptly ignored. Contains some concrete recommendations for how to fix what he identifies in the first piece.
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iyaayas01 posted:Cross posting from the Vet thread... The second companion one about guns is good as well. Although nothing new to anyone here, it's one of those things you want journalists to actually point out to the public.
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Whoever posted that article (http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/12/the-tragedy-of-the-american-military/383516/) thank you! Everyone should read that.
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iyaayas01 posted:Also worth reading this companion piece, which is the 2011 memo (briefly mentioned at the end of the first piece) that he and some other dudes put together and sent to Obama, where it was promptly ignored. Contains some concrete recommendations for how to fix what he identifies in the first piece. Holy loving pro-click, batman.
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I always thought the entire army could consolidate itself into about 10 MOSs and about 1/3rd of the force size and still be effective. Probably more so. Seriously, theres no reason for half of the poo poo the army has. That I know of at least. We dont need the number of infantry divisions we have. Maybe back in the mid to late 2000s when people were doing 15 months on and 12 months off but thats not really the case anymore.
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The active army only has eight.
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Caconym posted:It's from the cold war thread, and indeed it was a design choice. The Soviet-era version of 50FA must have stories that could take the paint off a wall at 500 yards.
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Courthouse posted:The second companion one about guns is good as well. Although nothing new to anyone here, it's one of those things you want journalists to actually point out to the public. Lol he got three of his guys killed and wrote an article about it blaming a gun
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Courthouse posted:The second companion one about guns is good as well. Although nothing new to anyone here, it's one of those things you want journalists to actually point out to the public. Oh joy, the ancient and retarded AK vs M16 argument is in the Atlantic now.
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