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What you will get is a careful explanation about how the words don't really mean what they say.
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Plans to kidnap Whitmer, overthrow government spoiled, officials say
gowlerk replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
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My take on this subject that every skydiver ever has thought about. Skydiving is expensive, time consuming, and involves a level of risk. Most people simply can not see the point. They would not get enough out of it to make it worthwhile. There are a lot of things that they do that do not interest you. Skydiving is a fringe activity. The herd will never follow us to the edge.
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Well, historically the role of the Bishop of Rome principally. Of course, like the middle east conflicts it's really a cultural and ethnic battle wrapped in flags and symbols of religion. Just the same as flying airliners into skyscrapers is really about culture and control of oil and wealth in Arabia, not what Muhammad said in the 6th century.
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I first noticed this during the Reagan era. I'm sure it must be a lot older than that though.
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Have you never watched WWE type wrestling? He is entertaining his crowd.
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Exactly. Dems just don’t care enough unless something riles them up. Like SCOTUS changing all the rules or something. Hell, Joe Weber is the only one here with fire in the belly.
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Maybe so. But still only the second city. Second to the Big Apple.
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Off topic I go again...... the historical return for the S&P 500, adjusted for inflation is about 7% annualized. I'll not bother much with investing in Japan.
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Buy low, sell high. The general rule is to buy now, or even better yesterday. Then hold for as long as you can. Because the trend is always upward over the long haul. There, simple.
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You are pretty young, aren't you?
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Wendy knows him personally I believe. Like, in real life where apparently he has friends and a much less annoying personality. Online can be deceiving at times. Things look different when you are at a keyboard typing at mostly strangers in The Matrix.
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This is starting to drift away from electric motors! As a holder of an Air Operations Certificate you need to have and follow an Operations Manual. That manual will state how you will source your fuel. Fuel companies will only certify AVgas as being unadulterated. They do extra testing and extra handling. You actually can use Mogas if you have a program for testing it both for ethanol and other contaminants, especially water. For us it is far simpler to use the commercially available Avgas at our airport. Not every DZ has that option though. If you move to a higher power engine than the standard O-470, like so many have done it is no longer an option to use MoGas. (This is in Canada, in the US as you know skydive operators are not required to have an AOC)
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And not only that, but he gets quoted and that leads to me accidentally reading the drivel.
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MoGas STCs are available for some lower compression ratio engines. Including the O-470 most common in skydive vintage 182s. But there are quite a few snags that make using it in skydiving a little dicey. It is more volatile and above 5000 ft it can easily boil if heated by the engine. It frequently has ethanol in it, which is not allowed. And worst of all fuel companies do not certify it for flight because that would require special handling. Turbo charged aviation engines and most of the injected ones that we use can not run on MoGas. There is an ongoing issue with 100LL that will one day need to be faced. Fuel companies and engine makers have been working on it for more than a decade, but have not been able to agree on a solution.
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Resume updating must be going on hard over there. I wonder how they will try to make white house experience look like a plus instead of a big red flag?
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Yes, the more I think about it the less wings seem like a good place for batteries. Just opening them up to install them in between ribs and then re-skinning seems like a huge problem.
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I am well aware of that, believe me. It costs about $200/hour to run a c-182. Most of that is MX and most of the MX is engine related. That is exactly what may make it worthwhile to convert. But first viable proven designs need to be developed. If that happens I can not see why a conversion for a nose heavy wide body 182 to a lighter electric motor with batteries in the wings is a far reach. That is assuming a design and power to weight ratio C-208 is viable. It should be far cheaper than putting a PT6-21 into a c-206. There are lots of engine upgrades available via STC for 100 series Cessnas. EDIT, if batteries in the wings end up not being the best place, there is room elsewhere.
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The piston engine world may not have the time to wait. 100LL fuel has been targeted for elimination. Diesels have long been touted as the alternative, but despite a few semi-successes the don't seem to be going anywhere. I do believe that if battery electric can be made practical in a Caravan type aircraft it will be relatively easy to adapt it to a 206/182/172 type as well. There are thousands of these out there. Many operated by flight schools and by weekend pilots hobby pilots who don't often travel far. This will provide a tempting market for conversion companies.
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Because electric motors and batteries will be cheaper than turbines. Not just in operating costs, but in capitol costs. The may very well be cheaper than rebuilding piston engines. Good question. That's why I said "practical conversion". Why do you think an electric motor pound for pound will be better or cheaper in a large airframe than a smaller one?
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They would all switch quickly if someone came up with a practical STC'd conversion. An O-470 weighs about 425lbs including accessories and carries about 100 lbs of fuel for 2 loads.
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It may affect some of the senate races is more what I was thinking of. The courts have long been more important to R voters than to D voters. This event may change that somewhat and have a longer term effect.
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I have now found something about what has provoked you to make this claim. It is a viral video that was a satire and contains a scene with a black man who claims to represent "BLM", but does not. It is not a movement, nor a cult. It's just something you saw on social media designed to provoke you. And it worked. https://ca.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN23B359 You may not be being recruited by a cult. But you are being influenced by white nationalists.
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Show me don't tell me. I have never heard of such a thing. And if they exist they are of some weird marginal thing that is being blown up either in your mind, or in an internet corner that you frequent. Go ahead, run away if you can't take the heat. Again, show me "people are "talked into" kneeling down and apologizing for being white. " And no, I am not trolling. I am challenging you to put up and back up your claim.
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The Time Warp? Classic! And remember, it’s just a jump to the left.
