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No You're safe. Constant Peg was declassified in 2006. When I was in the Pacific Fleet Adversaries, the bad guys, we used to fight the Migs regularly. We were forced to sign agreements that if we ever said anything, they would wipe us and everyone we knew out. Very serious stuff. They kept them in hangars to avoid Soviet recon satellite pics. You'd hold about 15 miles north, then they'd taxi out, takeoff and you'd fight them for about 20 mins. We were told never to try to land there. One day, i was the duty officer at the Adversary Squadron and my CO was over there. The plan was to fight them, then tank, (air to air refuel), then come back. During the tanking, something happened and the tanker sent a bunch of raw fuel into the air. It went own my CO's intake, exploded when it hit the compressor, blew out his right main landing gear doors, and a total hydraulic failure ensued. Losing the flight controls, he had to go in there. No brakes, so he rolls to the end and into the barricade. He wasn't hurt, so they blindfolded him and drove him 90 miles to Naval Air Station Fallon, NV. We wanted to send our maintainers to fix the airplane, but they would hear none of that. The accident report was altered to indicate it happened at Fallon Naval Air Station. They disassembled the airplane, put it on a truck and drove it to Fallon where we got it fixed a month later. Funny times.

They really aren't that secret. They just aren't a passenger airline. They use normal air traffic control freqs. The people who work at the Groom Lake complex, known as Area 51, and the folks who work at Tonopah Test Range, which is about 70 miles further NW from Groom Lake, get shuttled back and forth on a daily basis. Not all, but many. From time to time the Air Force will do it with their own transports, but mostly it's done by Janet 737's. They use to leave from Nellis AFB, but since everyone lives in or near Las Vegas, they operate from McCarran Intl. Airport and save them the drive to Nellis, which isn't that far away. Everybody who operates out of the Nellis complex knows about it, there is just no reason for other folks to. Funny, I haven't talked about the Tonopah Test Range for years, and just yesterday I got an email asking me something about it. We used to operate in the Nellis complex and the restricted area which serves Tonopah Test Range regularly. (See "Operation Constant Peg).

I believe they've said they don't know, and they've never acknowledged the existence of "future tech."

No matter. It should never collapse. Code in place, if abided by, would prevent it. The Miami construction industry is notorious for corruption. The latest terminal at their airport was held up twice as the contracting company refused to bribe the construction group. I have no idea what caused this, but I do know that the building industry in Miami is as corrupt as can be, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was found to not be to code.

Great. Not going there.

The "bibly?" The inhabitants of the planet earth have little to do with the existence of heaven or hell, or what course one takes to experience them. Either way, if you want an accurate representation of earth, use a globe. If you want to navigate it, use a Lambert Conformal, the way the aviation world does.

You are correct that it is very good. There is one better though.....The ceviche at Los Tajibos in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. I like it so much that I tried to get the marinade exported to the US for marketing purposes when I retired. My favorite food. Your friend is in for a treat. If your wife has any ceviche secrets, PM me. I love the stuff.

Heaven and hell have nothing to do with the planet earth.

Work related, i travelled all over South America from about 2002 until 2010. It was more difficult to get TV access, but still possible at various bars in the large cities I travelled to. There was always a place, and more options with each passing year. Because of the nature of my job, bars were not a frequent, favorable option. What I would do is listen to the radio broadcast and watch either CBS or ESPN Gametracker in my hotel room. From reading threads on our work related message board, which I still do even though retired, the guys who travel there have no problem finding TV coverage except in places like Bolivia. Speaking of the Miraflores area of Lima.....Great ceviche.

Drew Rosenhaus. 🤪 He was Willis McGahee's agent when he was drafted. He staged a fake scene with him to make it look like NFL teams were talking to him, then after he was drafted said Willis would be fine to play in his rookie year. Known bender of truth.

Maybe because he is a career politician, wherein getting votes trumps ideological belief, when ideological belief might cost votes. It is theologically incongruent to claim to be Catholic and yet support abortion. The two cannot coexist. Biden is, first and foremost, a politician. His Catholic claim is a convenient exercise. You can't have it both ways.

Not sure what your point is here. Forgiveness is based on admitting an activity is sinful, and seeking to eliminate it. The Catholic Church believes that abortion is eliminating human life. Continuing to support it does not meet the requirement for "forgiveness," your term.

My last Blue Angels/football related post, then I'm out. After my second cruise on Kitty Hawk, I joined the Pacific Fleet Adversaries. That is a squadron where you fight others. It's tough to get in, you kind of have to be invited, and you have to kind of prove your mettle when you get in. First week, the squadron is going to play in the annual Fog Bowl, a football game with the A7 replacement training squadron on the same base. Anyone who has lived in the Central Valley of California knows how bad the fog is in the winter. The Adversaries have about 12 pilots. The Fog Bowl is against the A7 replacement squadron, which has about five times more guys. Anyway, I agree to play and attend my first practice. First play, I'm lined up as a corner. I'm pretty sure I can compete, so my plan is to expect an out pattern, (the usual first practice route). My plan is to back pedal enough to bait the throw, then close on it and pick it. Out comes the wide out, one Curt Watson, call sign Griz, short for grizzly bear, because that's what he looked like. About 5'10" and 190. No worries. Play snaps. Griz runs a 7 and then cuts to the sideline. I take one more back pedal, baiting the throw, and I think I got this made. QB, who is another story, and very good, pumps and I jump the route. Griz turns it up and I'm thinking, no problem, I can cover the double move. He can't be that fast. The problem is he is gaining on me. I can't cover the guy. Fortunately the pass is a bit overthrown and hits the dirt, but I was had. At the end of this, I am quite impressed with Griz, being the new guy to the squadron and not knowing anyone, if he has played ball. He says yes, and I ask him where, and he says Green Bay. Turns out he was the leading rusher for Tennessee, and played two years for the Packers. We became fast friends and rented a ski place together in the Sierras before he applied and was accepted in the Blues. By the way, he was the guy that flew Tom Cruise when Cruise decided to do TopGun. Cruise wasn't decided until then, and Griz took him up and that was that.

Many, many weeks at Fallon as an aggressor, after having dropped tons of bombs and strafing their targets. I was about 40 miles from there on 9-11 as an airline guy when we got the message of the issue. My plan was to land there if we had an attempt, but made it back to San Francisco.

If interested, the best Blue Angels video from their perspective ever. It was from a final practice at El Centro Ca. The A4 was a better airshow airplane than the F-18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5PqVeex4QU

They talked about it, but I'm certain he was joking. One would never do a 7g pull with a novice in the back, and possibly break his neck. Neither were wearing g suits, as the Blues never do, but 7 would black out anybody not trained and ready for it. It is simply not possible to not black out at 7, actually 5 for most people. The most they do is 4 on these VIP rides. Pilot.

I did it 312 times. These VIP things they do with Blue Angel 7 are pretty calm events, but still a nice way to spend an hour on a beautiful afternoon. You can clearly see his anxiety at the beginning, and his pleasure having done so at the end.

I don't think it matters either, at least not this early. What did matter, and was a harbinger of things to come, was from Jets late training camp last year when during a scrimmage, their two defense dominated their one offense, and their two offense dominated their one defense. That was an eyebrow raiser, and foretold a very difficult September and October.

It's 3750 miles by air to Madrid with a six hour time difference. It's 2125 to Seattle with a three hour time difference. Additionally, because of the rules of the North Atlantic Track System, there are time restrictions to be followed when going east and when coming back. If not in those time slots, a longer route must be flown, or non optimum altitudes used, require more time. Of course they fly charters, but Madrid is more of an issue than London.

Certain places are better for certain things. I'd rather eat olives in Madrid, and I'd rather watch the Bills in Orchard Park.

There are lots of people who want to make money off of this kind of stuff. The "ex UFO investigator ," Luis Elizondo, is certainly one of them. Not a believer.

OJ Simpson. There was simply no player more physically capable in his first years, and those were largely wasted. He was on a different planet.

Because stock is ownership. If you issue more stock, you dilute the value of existing shares, thus reducing their value. Stock issuance dilutes value, stock buybacks enhance it.

It's run after catch, not run before catch.

Vinyl bird netting is incredibly cheap. I have over a quarter mile of it in my vineyard. You can protect those peas and beans for less than $20.