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Obama endorsed Clinton the Thursday after she’d won enough Primaries to have a majority of delegates. It’s more than a little amusing that you’ve decided to demonstrate your complete and total ignorance of this process on the same day you told someone else to learn civics.

I'm not saying that I expect FF to go away tomorrow...if I did, I wouldn't be designing a new panel for oilfield service companies at the moment. But Brent's got a habit of coming on here and sharing "absolute truths" that are little more than what he thinks will piss off lefties.

I have advised numerous people to not buy a King Air unless you have a very experienced pilot to fly it, a very knowledgable mechanic on staff that can maintain it, and that you are very knowledgeable about all aspects of flying and maintaining one. Otherwise, the costs of maintenance will eat you alive and an inexperienced pilot will have a good chance of crashing it or landing it gear up. I have told them that "you don't know what you don't know" but this advice has fallen on deaf ears on occasion. I have had very good service from my King Air B90 with -34 engines, have flown it over 45,000 loads. I recently had an engine failure when a $0.25 "C" clip fell out of the oil pressure regulating valve. We had never touched that clip, whatever defect it had was from the last overhaul, engine shop said they had never seen one do that. So, we sold the other engine, parting out the rest, and bought a C90 with -10, 1000 hp engines to replace it.

Predicting they will go bankrupt the same year "Full Self Driving" is released might be a pretty safe bet.

Take it from Brent, who’s never made an imperfect prediction in this forum!

I have a few hundred jumps on them; loading 1.3-1.5. Short recovery arc; fun, but a lousy trainer for swooping apparently. I found it predictable, and it opened OK; often with a twist, but I never had a spin. I didn’t have great results with psycho packing it, less predictable openings. But otherwise eminently predictable, which I like Wendy P.

Not for the prediction, although it's wrong, but because your world view is so rearward looking.

All part of their agenda. When they shut down the government they will do what they can to harm the poor, the military and the United States. Then they will say "look what the democrats did!" Clinton summed it up pretty well: "The Republicans are pretty simple ,actually, and pretty straightforward. They say, ’I want you to be very miserable, and very angry. And I want you to vote for us, and we’ll make it worse, but we’ll blame them.' "

Are you trying to confuse us with mere facts again?

From S+P Global: The new 2023 production forecast represents a 3.4% drop from the 597.2 million short tons of US coal output in 2022. Meanwhile, the agency expects 2024 production to total 491.2 million short tons, down 2.8% from the last forecast. Coal is on its way out in the US, which is good for us.

When women laugh when I drop my pants, pointing and snickering "who are you going to please with that", I proudly proclaim: Me.

Did Obama hand pick Biden too? Who is doing this hand picking? You are no different from somebody like Ron, when you don't understand something you ascribe it to a magical mystical entity. In his case god, in your case: they/them/Deep State etc.

What is it that they say about broken clocks, or blind squirrels?

Pack it normally. I’ve pro packed and ‘psycho’ packed them. Pay very close attention to a flat stable deployment. I don’t have a lot of experience on Stilettos, but the only opening problem was an own goal, deploying on the hill on a hop’n’pop whilst not quite square to the relative wind. On my Safire2 or Sabre2 it wouldn’t have been a problem. On the Stiletto, it was an immediate and serious problem.

speak for yourself, old man

i call bullshit on this. no way in hell you got anything for an airplane for under a dollar.

lippy, as ever you get to the crotch of the matter. So, Lydia needs Beetlejuice to help her but the price is some tit rubbing and weenie working which frees him up to cause chaos in the right wing world. Damn if not once again life mimics art.

Yes he did, but Trump said he beat Obama.....and then you said Clinton was handpicked by Obama, which is as much bullshit as Trump saying he beat Obama.

Rudy, Rudy, Rudy! He has been a buddy of trump for a long time. While trump is an admitted pu$$y grabber. Rudy just aspires to be one evidently. "Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson in a new book" states that Rudy, 52 years older than her, thats more than a 1/2 a century, put his hand “under my blazer, then my skirt,” A little groping in the WH by Rudy who trump evidently warned everyone to be on the watch for. Because Rudy was frequently drunk when he came to the WH. Oh well. trump always did say he only hires the best.

Yes, 60-year-old King Airs can be picked up for a song. Consider that Beechcraft started building King Airs in 1963 and more than 3,000 have been built. More King Airs have been built than all of the other light turbine twin executive transports combined (BAE Jetstream, Embraer Bandierante, Cessna 4??, Piaggio Avanti, Piper Cheyanne, etc.). A DZ can pick up a 60 year old King Air for a song, barely more than the value of the instrument panel and the time remaining on the engines. But long-term maintenance is far more expensive on King Airs with their pressurized cabins, retractable landing gear, de-icing boots, IFR panels, etc. King Airs also require hard-surfaced runways 3,000 feet (1 kilometer) or longer. All those extra systems also make King Airs more complicated to fly, hence not suitable for freshly-minted commercial pilots. Complex airplanes are also more expensive to insure. When my boss bought a 1960s vintage King Air, I asked him why he did not buy a simpler Cessna Caravan and he replied that his 1960s vintage King Air was the most that he could afford. A few years later he was complaining about spending $45,000 on a landing gear inspection due every 5 years. A few years even later he crashed the King Air because of some neglected engine maintenance. Bottom line, King Airs are the cheapest turbine jump-planes to purchase and you get what you pay for.