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The final post of someone who is badly losing an argument.

That's practically on top of each other as seen from Mars.

What second wave? We’ve never got out of the first/

Arcus Fire just announced two new single-turbine airplanes for fire-fighters. They announced an upgrade to PAC 750 to carry 2500 kg of fire-fighting fluids. This modification of the popular PAC 750 jump and agricultural airplane is currently being tested with its new under-belly water tank and drop doors. Most of the airframe will still be built by Pacfic Aero. Arcus Fire also announced a completely new, high,fire/cargo/passenger airplane called Firecatcher. It has tail feathers similar to PAC 750 but a completely new fuselage that looks like a fat Cessna Caravan. Like the Skycourier - that Cessna is currently test flying - the fuselage is sized for 3 LD3 shipping containers, which should make it popular with courier companies. Like most light turboprops, Firecatcher will be certified to carry 19 passengers ... just short of the requirement for a stewardess. hey hope to fly Firecatcher by 2024. Arcus Fire specializes in leasing fire-fighting aircraft. Pacific Aero specializes in manufacturing agricultural airplanes based on the earlier Fletcher and Cresco patterns dating back tot he 1960s. Flight Structures specializes in designing and certifying aircraft components to New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority standards. Hopefully skydivers will start jumping out of Firecatchers within a decade. Those lucky jumpers will enjoy stand-up cabins and economical single turboprops made by Pratt & Whitney of Canada.

Hi Tim, Don't you mean firefighter? https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Lover-Story-Joseph-Wambaugh/dp/1482994895 Jerry Baumchen Former firefighter

I think Melania Trump is the perfect illustration of "American Values" and could not better represent Trump's America.

I expect hypocrisy.

I expect them to be professional.

I’ve been for it since i was in my 30’s. When I was 17, I did spend a summer in volunteer work away from home. Something like that is VERY universal is part of the landscape. When it’s something you can pay your way out of it becomes a much less effective thing in highlighting the shared parts of our country. Wendy P.

You're free to talk but as usual you're wrong on the facts. Since trump took office the US debt has increased $8 trillion or about $26,000 for every man woman and child. Had that money been invested in job training, building up decayed urban areas, etc. Instead of being wasted on tax breaks for the airlines and other companies who used the money to buy back shares. This wouldn't even be a topic of discussion. Nobody can piss away a couple trillion dollars like trump and republicans."We’ve got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt. ... Well, I would say over a period of eight years. And I’ll tell you why.”

Is it a personal attack to call someone a racist? It’s OK to call them Republican, it’s pretty much the same thing!

Because he’s got the back channel access and secret decoder ring. Duh.

And four years of GOP leadership have produced countrywide race riots. Here's a good option - put Biden in the White House, send Trump to Baltimore. Win-win.

She only identifies the problems as she sees them. I daresay they're harder and more expensive to address completely, to your satisfaction, than is possible. It's just not that easy. What should they do? "stop the murders." Well, that was easy. Wendy P.

Believe whatever you like.

I'm strongly in favor of mandatory public service. At 18 or when you finish high school, whichever comes last. Only exceptions are actively and aggressively mentally ill, doing legitimately ground-breaking work in some help-humanity science endeavor (which is fairly public service anyway), and maybe really essential to family support (parents both disabled kind of thing). But educably mentally challenged, potential athlete, rich kid -- yep, gotta go. Wendy P.

????? The idiot instructor did everything wrong except not leave the aircraft. The student was basically looking good. A little in person coaching from someone with more fall rate and body control than the student would have turned this jump into a huge success. Yes, the instructor did gobs of things that were dangerous. I got my AFF rating in 1988. I've done more AFF than most people have jumps. I'm telling you, based on my actual experience, this was horrible.

He had a reserve handle, right? Why didn't he pull that? The AAD fire had nothing to do with the instructor, unless that instructor trained him and neglected to talk about that. By level 3, a student should be able pull their own reserve if they can't find the main handle, and they should know what to do if an instructor isn't there at pull time. Shit happens, I signed the waiver, it's on me to save my own life.