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Easy now.
The Vulcan canon is an internal gun.
A round can cook off in the firing process.
By the way. Strafing with the Vulcan, 20mm rounds at 6000 per minute, (100/sec) is really fun.
Line up the gunsite on the HUD.
Squeeze the trigger on the stick for about two seconds.
Get off the trigger before you hear anything.
Hear the "bzzzzzzzz" as the gun fires, airplane yaws left.
Roll 120 degrees and fly over the school bus just as it explodes.
No holes.
The thing explodes.
A nine foot by nine foot wall of high explosive incendiary does interesting things.
Go Hoos.
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39 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:
Who does everyone have tonight? 9:20 tip in the east is brutal for a Monday (cuz I’m old)
My Hoos of course.
If they can play close to as sell as they did in the regular conference season, they should be fine.
Ty Gerome is the key.
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There is precedent.
I was born in South Buffalo and swam in local waterways as well.
Had a non gender specific neighbor named "Cazenovia."
We called it "Nove," and it was never selected during youth sporting contests.
Our oldest is named "Lasagna."
Folks can figure out why, but those fine Italian dinners lead to "activities."
Best thing we ever did for him though.
All the girls would say "I'm going out with tonight's special....Lasagna"
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9 minutes ago, K-9 said:
Enjoy the celebration. The Cavs deserve to be there. Guy has ice water in his veins.
All true. I feel for Auburn’s Harper, too. If he hits the second half of his one and one, the best Guy could do is send it to overtime. I give the Tigers credit from coming all the way back from 10 down with five to go. Helluvan effort.
Well stated.
There has been a lot of talk about UVA, but what is never mentioned is that they almost always win the second half, and never give up a second half lead.
They generally struggle in the first half and strangle the other team in the second half.
Major kudos to Auburn.
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3 minutes ago, K-9 said:
Enjoy the celebration. The Cavs deserve to be there. Guy has ice water in his veins.
It will be insane here on Monday.
Such a great group of kids and such a great coach.
Everything done right.
Just the best of college sports teams.
Win or lose, what we all hope sports can be.
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2 minutes ago, K-9 said:
Right call on the foul indeed.
Right after the no call on Jerome’s double dribble.
I'm an honest man..
They clearly blew the double dribble.
Still, fouling on a three when down by two cost them the game, and it was clearly a foul.
I like Auburn and they played well, but they lost.
Can't wait until Monday, but what a great tournament.
Virginia, who has not played anywhere near what they did in the ACC regular season is in.
Can't ask for more.
Mayhem at my house.
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Absolutely the right call.
Kyle Guy was hit in the hip, and his dead on three came up short as the result.
Stupid foul, but the right call.
Rockin in Charltottesville tonight.
WAHOO-WA
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Great National Anthem.
Go Hoos.
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Final Four starts tonight.
My town, home of UVA, is on fire.
Go Hoos.
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2 hours ago, KD in CA said:
What a heartbreaker for Purdue.....I liked the foul decision, but they kinda lost their defensive heads on the long rebound and left that guy wide open for the tying jumper.
They got caught in a bad situation.
When Diakite had that long tap back, and Clark ran it down, they needed to guard Virginia's top two shooters, Guy and Ty Gerome.
Both were calling for the ball, but Jerome was in pretty good position, so Carsen Edwards ran at him, leaving Diakite open.
A perfect pass.
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On 2/13/2019 at 3:19 PM, row_33 said:
Virginia? Oh yes, they have set quite the standard for overrated.
Depends on the tourney itself, they love to give mid-majors who played 1 top 40 team all year the high seeds, sets up for better "upsets" in the first round. Gonzaga sailed to the final a few years ago not playing ANYBODY from November to the final itself. While on the other side of the bracket it seemed like North Carolina vs Kentucky type-games were played several times to make it more of a mockery.
You need some eyeglasses if you can't tell the ball was more than half above the cylinder on the replays from that angle.
Your credibility is disappearing carrying into the second paragraph....
Overrated!
Wahoo-WA
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A catapult shot.
Flying wing.
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6 hours ago, Turk71 said:
Lets Go Ducks!!! ? ⚡Shock the Nation!!!
The Ducks played well.
Virginia is a very good finisher though.
Not happy their threes aren't dropping and they got nothing from the bench tonight.
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Big family plans for Thursday's opener.
Ordered my granddaughter a Nats onesie and hat for her first birthday in April.
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21 minutes ago, Gray Beard said:
Doesn’t a flight attendant say “welcome aboard flight xxx to destination yyy” as the doors are closing? Or is that old fashioned, and they don’t do that anymore?
Or did the flight attendants know where they were supposed to go, but the cockpit crew was given the wrong flight plan, and nobody noticed?
The flight attendants thought the flight was scheduled for Ediburgh as well.
It is called a "wet lease," where the entire operation is subbed out to a leasing company.
You don't have to worry about it in the US.
Contracts prohibit it.
10 minutes ago, GoBills808 said:...captain, how soon till we can land?
...I can't tell.
You can tell me, I'm a doctor.
No, I mean I'm just not sure.
"Well can you guess?"
"In about two hours."
"You can guess in about two hours?"
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11 minutes ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said:
Sherpa, Sherpa -
They bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into.
I say, "Let 'em crash!"
The "they" in my post was in answer to a question about the cockpit crew.
Nothing to do with the passengers.
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16 minutes ago, Marv's Neighbor said:
The crew was told? Who "told" them? The contract Dispatcher, Ground Ops, the crew desk? Questions should have been raised well before the plane left the gate. Was there maybe a last minute; crew change, gate change, plane change etc., that contributed to the 'mix up?" That's not mentioned, but you have to wonder. If the crew boarded through the terminal, what did the gate signs say? Do they ever notice all the handle tags on the luggage, or maybe look at an airbill when they're on the ramp? Simply saying they "flew the plan as intended," is just trying to rationalize what happened. All the passengers "intended" to deplane at Dusseldorf! The company obviously intended that to happen too.
Their schedule told them.
They have a schedule and they do not change that without notification. It involves a number of things, hotel/transportation changes etc., so if there is a change to your schedule, you know it.
I'm not familiar with London City airport, so it may be that the crew boards from the ramp, or there are no terminal ..destination signs, and I have never looked at baggage tags.
Still, I am very familiar with flight management system uploads and how flights are managed from the flight deck.
You don't get the plan up-link until you type in the destination ICAO identiier.
Not possible they typed in the identifier for Edinburgh instead of Dusseldorf, as it would cause a host of other issues.
Point is they were expecting to fly to Edinburgh, had a flight plan for Edinburgh, loaded the flight management system for Edinburgh and flew to Edinburgh.
Not possible to stare at a screen that displays your route and not notice it is going northwest instead of east, and a hundred other things that would have tipped them off.
In short, not their issue.
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1 hour ago, Marv's Neighbor said:
That happens when an airline relies on low bid contractors who maybe work too many flights, for too many different airlines. Any in house person would have realized that the flight number was not correct for that segment/sector. Then you get a complacent aircrew that just look at the flight plan, and enter the same incorrect data into the flight management computer on the plane. Just because it's properly formatted and printed does not make it correct. Take-off, engage the auto pilot, and not pay attention to where the plane is actually heading. Many airlines keep the shades mostly drawn, so the passengers can use the entertainment systems, making the passengers mostly clueless. I guess none of the passengers were paying attention to the map feature in the entertainment system?
The part of your post after the second sentence is inaccurate and impossible.
The crew thought the flight was going to Edinburgh.
That's what it was filed for and that's what their flight plan said.
It is not remotely possible to "take-off, engage the autopilot and not pay attention to where the airplane is heading."
Nor is it possible to not notice that if you think you are flying from London City airport to Dusseldorf, which is a largely easterly heading, that you would not notice that you didn't fly over the English Channel, transit Belgian or Netherlands airspace and talk to their controllers and enter Germany, but instead head northwest and check in with Scottish.
Again, they were told the flight was to Edinburgh and flew the plan as intended.
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2 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:
Ummm Virginia? Wtf
The Hoos demolished Gardner Webb from the six minute mark in the first half.
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3 hours ago, teef said:
we have two heat pumps and air handlers, (i have no idea what i'm talking about, so ignore me if i'm way off) and the new one we have a great. the ones that were presents when we moved in were way to anemic, and could never heat the house properly. we have a weird situation where we're all electric, and the electric is cheap. we do have a propane tank, but not the large ones to heat the house. the only time it gets pricey is if it drops to below 10 or so for extended periods of time. then it will run constantly, and we can have bills in the $450-500 range. that being said, we crank the air in summer, have our pool set to 87-90, and it may cost me $200 a month.
I think you might benefit from seeing what you really have.
Heat pumps can be set up so that once a certain condition occurs, they activate electrical heat.
Kind of like a toaster.
They can also be set up to go to LP or some other source under certain conditions.
What I do know is that there is no heat pump that works using a regular refrigeration reversal at anything below 35 degrees.
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We have built the last three houses we've lived in, so I had a lot to say about the HVAC stuff.
Radiant floor heating is really nice, but it is expensive and limits your choice of flooring.
You could do the research yourself, but using some tile product is vastly different than carpeting or wood flooring.
Did geothermal in the second house. Very nice, especially in the Virginia summers, since it is extremely good at de-humidification.
We always had our ac set at 76, and it felt much cooler than any neighbors at 74.
Would have done it again, but it suddenly got really expensive.
Heat pumps are great for ac, and OK for heat until you get to 40, and I don't care what they say. Below 40, it just doesn't handle it.
Wood isn't comfortable. We've done that before, though a woodstove in California, not as a primary heat source, but just to make one room really cozy. Too dry and dirty.
LP is OK for a fireplace, but doesn't put out nearly as many BTU's as NatGas.
Anyway, that's my experience.
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I think one of the great benefits to this team was Edmunds going through the year without injury or games missed.
That was one of my hopes going into a year where I thought we had no chance to make the playoffs.
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6 minutes ago, #34fan said:
white, male, and loosely attached to Jesus.
They are in no way, by anyone's distorted imagination, in any way "attached" to Jesus.
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1 hour ago, Pete said:
Bouillabaisse
Cioppino
Borscht
Bisque
Tomato Tarragon and Cream
Hot and Sour
Pho
Bab Leves
any asian soup
Those are not soups.
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College Basketball 2018-19
in Off the Wall Archives
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You are absolutely, totally, dead wrong.
I am very familiar with this program and these kids.
They are the least "pretentious" group in the ACC, and if you don't know that, you are not aware of what goes on at UNC or Duke.
It is a great program, run by a great coach, and full of great kids.