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  1. gowlerk
    Basically an old school seven cell F111 canopy tweaked into a 9 cell design with a slightly higher aspect ratio. Obsolete and of no monetary value anymore, but still usable if airworthy.
  2. gowlerk
    I vote yes. But I have absolutely no authority to say that.
  3. gowlerk
    I've sewn magnets onto a few V2s and Vector tandems over the years. I encased them in pieces of TY 12. They are not perfect but they are a hell of a lot better than the Velcro they replaced.
  4. gowlerk
    Thanks. Googling that term brought me to a somewhat compressible page at the CERN website. https://home.cern/science/physics/heavy-ions-and-quark-gluon-plasma
  5. gowlerk
    Just out of curiosity do those nuclei also break down into individual quarks in a plasma or does the strong force still hold them together?
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    Good lord! It's "The Bible". Either you believe in it with all its conflicting proclamations or you don't. What the Hell, you can even choose to believe in or interpret all or parts of it anyway you choose. At least you can do those things with the level of freedom we currently enjoy in the western world at this moment in history. Likely none of us will be burnt at the stake or tortured to death for apostasy like in some Islamic parts of the world. As far as understanding the nature of existence goes everyone of us including the leading theoretical physicists can only speculate. And I firmly believe that fact will never change over whatever length of time our species lasts for. But we sure will try anyway.
  7. gowlerk
    Is the term “gun violence “ as offensive as people dying from gun violence?
  8. gowlerk
    But hey, ‘merica is different. It’s people are “special”. God’s newly chosen.
  9. gowlerk
    Murse. A real man carries a murse.
  10. gowlerk
    Are not all people brothers and sisters?
  11. gowlerk
    You have made it quite clear that feelings mean all and facts mean nothing. This is why your posts and opinions are mostly regarded as worthless.
  12. gowlerk
    In the words of Woody Guthrie "they are mean, just plain mean."
  13. gowlerk
    If being gay is just a "fad" then the RC Church is a small flash in the pan.
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    Q

    gowlerk replied to yobnoc's topic in Speakers Corner

    Correct. It's about speculating which is more akin to gambling than investing.
  15. gowlerk
    You are missing the entire point. Many of the people who keep themselves armed with a pistol at the ready dream of the day when they get to use it. Most likely the reality of what happens afterward is nothing like they imagined. But at least their day of glory has arrived.
  16. gowlerk
    The key demand in the tandem supply and demand equation is not the TI, it is the paying customer. There will not be the same number of TIs, there will be a smaller number of more qualified and committed TIs on average. The overall level of professionalism will go up. Tandem factories are not going to disappear because DZs finally required to get AoCs. Tandem factories are among the most profitable of DZs. Many will do just fine thank you. It will just be harder to start a small DZ down the road from a larger one and undercut the market.
  17. gowlerk
    More fringe? It's not exactly mainstream as it is. Where I am having an AOC means having an Operations Manual and a Maintenance Control Manual. Once they are in place we are required to follow what our manual says we will do. Including a formalized pilot training requirement. It also means that aircraft SBs and SILs will be actioned, not just ADs. There is a cost to this, but not an unbearable one. The main difference is a higher level of accountability and professionalism is required. Most of the DZs in the US will have little problem adapting with the biggest headache being the damned paperwork. Those that won't be able to adapt are most likely ones that you learned long ago to avoid.
  18. gowlerk
    Welcome to the civilized world. DZs sell airplane rides to tandem “students” as the main income generator. They have long been commercial air operations, but have been able to skirt the rules due to the history of skydiving as a fringe sport. You can’t have it both ways. There will be far fewer pop-up tandem mill operations as the barrier to entry becomes more onerous. It will mostly be good for the sport, but like all change there will be a ton of resistance.
  19. gowlerk
    In any nation the military trends towards the right and conservative. Liberals are far less likely to join.
  20. gowlerk
    These people have enrolled their children in the school system controlled by the Catholic Church. What did they think would happen?
  21. gowlerk
    I don’t read it either. I can say for sure that the last week of June is likely to be a bad time in the USA for many more years.
  22. gowlerk
    But isn't this the second time this same video was posted?
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    Indicted

    gowlerk replied to JoeWeber's topic in Speakers Corner

    Canada invades you every year. Starting in November and peaking just after Christmas.
  24. gowlerk
    Thankfully SCOTUS will not take this case of a school in NC that wants to require female students to wear skirts... The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case challenging a skirts-only dress code for girls at a North Carolina charter school, letting stand a lower court ruling that the school's dress code violated federal law. At the center of the case is Charter Day School, which operates independently but is designated as a public school under North Carolina state law and receives 95 percent of its funding from the government. Charter Day School says it seeks to "emphasize traditional values" and enforces a dress code that requires girls to wear skirts, jumpers, or skorts. Female students wearing skirts, the school's founder said, preserves the idea that a woman is a "fragile vessel that men are supposed to take care of and honor." https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1183781580/supreme-court-dress-code
  25. gowlerk
    Not much different from the news here on the Canadian prairies.