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This is great!

"Walk through this Xray scanner if you want to fly. Don't want to get scanned? You can't fly. Even if you think that Xrays are dangerous." Because people voluntarily do what's best for other people? Really?

Mods, this needs a BIG danger disclaimer as bigun has also done. Do not inhale hydrogen peroxide, people.

DANGER! Don’t Nebulize Hydrogen Peroxide and Breathe It to Try to Treat or Prevent COVID-19

I am up to about 90 Cooper profile points, I am aiming for 100. (Cooper specific) and Kenneth Christiansen still fails miserably, he is not Cooper. It is really clear KC matches virtually nothing and the argument is speculation and hearsay. Nothing but noise. He is one of the worst suspects, at least McCoy is interesting. Something else I noticed,, Hal Williams the NWA clerk noticed Cooper was the only one not joking about the rain in Portland.. The dominant theory is that Cooper wanted to jump in the area. Is it reasonable to plan a jump at night into the rain into a semi-wooded area. He would get wet, dirty and cold. Then in that condition on the ground he would have to make his escape out of the area. He wasn't dressed for PNW jump at night in the rain and it doesn't seem like something to plan. There is no evidence that Cooper's plan when he boarded the plane was to jump in the PNW. Cooper's initial demand was airstairs lowered inflight, not lowered on takeoff. He changed it after the Reno negotiation. Why change, unless your LZ changed. Cooper also required the refuelling to be at a small airport. That is unnecessary if his initial plan was to jump in the PNW.. and Cooper was not dressed for the weather. But, how does he expect to escape on the ground wet, cold and dirty. Where is he going to go unnoticed, he would probably need a change of clothes. There is no way he could have an accomplice close on the ground without precisely directing the planes path. It doesn't make sense for this to be his initial plan. I know PNW weather,, you don't go out in a cold rainy November night without being dressed for it.

Yes, we learned not to follow US policies too closely. Like not following the neo-cons into Iraq. We learned not to allow our Supreme Court to be packed with ideologues. Thank you.

In regards to the racer. Part of the reason he had to do this was that he was using a single layer type 13 mlw. If he had just layed one on top of the other and sewed them together it would never hold. By samwiching it like that with the extra piece running an inch higher you change the failure mode. Now when you pull on that top corner the leg strap webbing is supported by the stitch on both sides. When you try to pull the leg out of the mlw each stitch is supporting the leg on both sides where it passes into the mlw. Looking at other designs. The early vector ones had stagger. They plugged the leg strap into the mlw between the two layers. At some point they started wrapping the webbing of the leg strap around the inner layer of type eight. The sticking of the four point ran down bellow the junction far enough that if the joint failed that loop would probably save them. Javelin looped both around the mlw so that it slipped on. I've seen the stitching fail but because they had some harness stitching in the leg strap, just a box, no one fell out. And the tightening on the leg is not that bad. The National pilot rigs don't even sew that joint. They leave it a slot that the mlw can slide through so it's "adjustable". Some people have spread out the leg strap in a V to get more area in the joint that they are sewing. And yes you can angle it down at a bit of an angle to try to get a more natural loading with out so much of a stress concentration at the top. You can also get creative. Example. John Stanford with the prestige container. I worked for him for a while. That's where I learned most of what I know. He ran the diagonals on his back from one shoulder junction diagonally to the opposite hip to the leg strap back across the lower back to the opposite hip to the leg strap back up diagonally across the back to the opposite shoulder. One big long piece. The leg strap junction instead of being at a 90 degree angle was about 60 degrees and the webbing was spread out. The mlw went between the two layers. He sewed it with a boxed three point. All the stitches of the three point were within the box. If you over stepped it that stitch tended to pop. He found that in drop testing. A lot of the original military harnesses were built with variations of that kind of diagonal harness. Another example was the... Eos container. It had an interesting harness design with an angled joint if I remember correctly. I think I only ever saw one of them and it's been a while. Lee

I don't have a problem with anti-vaxxers as long as they are kept away from me and mine and the rest of the sensible folk, and are willing to pay for their treatment if they get sick. What a woman does with her own body is no-one's business but her own. Certainly not the business of any politician. I have no problem with anyone having access to guns if they can pass the same background check as is needed for a Global Entry card and are willing to affirm under penalty of perjury that they will properly secure their firearms so kids can't get them.

Hi Quag, I can tell you what Rob is talking about. 1. Cut a piece of T-8 at 6" ( 150 mm ) long 2. Turn both ends under 1" ( 25 mm ) - you now have a piece 4" ( 100 mm ) long 3. Place over your hip junction on the underside of the MLW but centered on the hip junction so that an equal amount of the T-8 is above & below the hip junction 4. Now sew it with a 4-point stitch pattern for the entire 4" ( 100 mm ) both above & below the actual hip junction - you now have stitching both above & below the hip junction that only connects this piece of T-8 to the MLW What John Sherman found was that by doing this, some of the load at the actual hip junction would then be supported by this longer piece of T-8 where it is sewn to the MLW. This allows the T-8 that is above & below the hip junction to carry some of the load; thereby reducing the load that the stitching at the hip junction has to carry. Do you understand this? If not, get back to us. Jerry Baumchen PS) When I saw my first SST back in the early 70's I could understand why this extra piece of T-8 was there. Now, I know. Here what I worked up. The black outlines the piece of T-8 & the red is the stitch pattern.

Project went silent, but not stalled :) There's been a lot of work behind the scenes and I'm releasing major code update tonight: https://github.com/RomanTheLegend/WingsuitGps * Introduced support for TTGO device * Fully redesigned architecture. Everything is modular: modes, devices, features. Each mode is a separate class so it's easy to develop new ones. * You can switch between operation modes using menu * Support for Bluetooth - you can stream GPS data to BASEline on your phone (friendly waving to @platypii ) It's still in Alpha state - code needs lots and lots of optimizations and stability improvements. I'm a novice C++ programmer, and many things done not the way they should. This will be fixed with time as I gain more experience. Meanwhile code review by someone experienced is really appreciated. Next I'll be focusing on 3D models for the body, buttons for TTV and also rewiring stuff in more optimal way (pieces would be plugged to each other via JST) . First model would be tailored for Kiss helmets, other models to come later. What else on the priority list: * Flash GPS to higher baud rates (by default it does only 2 readings per second, I want 5 like in FlySight) * Switch to UBX protocol which is faster than NMEA and more data-rich (FlySight also uses UBX) * Refactoring * Fonts optimization (currently font file for digits is too big, sometimes program fails to flash) * Multi-page menu Less priority: * Settings * Save data between device reboots

It's also short for "look in places you might not consider," and "the opinions of people who don't look like you also matter." It's all well and good to say that ad men should all be hard-smoking guys like the ones in Mad Men. However, women buy stuff. Minorities buy stuff. Women and minorities use the products of engineering -- maybe some people use those products in ways that all the alpha males didn't imagine. That doesn't even make them wrong -- it makes the people who only considered their own point of view wrong. Wendy P.

#1 - They can't stand the idea of competing on a 'level playing field'. They refuse to acknowledge 'white privilege', yet also refuse to relinquish it. This isn't new, but the way they go about it has evolved. #2 - They absolutely can't stand the idea of 'other faiths' competing on a 'level playing field'. Antisemitism goes back a looooooong way. Anti-Islam does too, but gained a lot of traction since the Sept 11 attacks. Funny how they scream and cry that their '1st Amendment Rights' are being 'infringed' when a private entity (FB, Twitter, ect) censors their posts, yet make public calls for the government to 'establish a state religion'. The hypocrisy is enraging. The sincerity is frightening. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/581443-michael-flynn-says-of-the-us-we-have-to-have-one-religion

Lara, a former member of Moxie, talks about the 400 way record on this podcast. (Eric Gin also comes up.) It's also notable that she is on this podcast because she recently won the World Series of Poker.

That would be nice. It's been > 15 years since I last jumped the jet and experienced the "safety briefing" by the flight attendants.