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dc10guy 10-28-2014 03:54 AM

Thinking about buying a fly confirm for less ticket for the wife to go on mission trip. Those tickets are just like buying a non refundable ticket?

sailingfun 10-28-2014 03:59 AM


Originally Posted by dc10guy (Post 1754441)
Thinking about buying a fly confirm for less ticket for the wife to go on mission trip. Those tickets are just like buying a non refundable ticket?

The tickets conform to the type you purchase. You can buy them as refundable or non refundable. It's exactly like buying a ticket on delta.com however you get 20% off. It's your choice what type of ticket you choose to buy.

dc10guy 10-28-2014 04:08 AM


Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 1754443)
The tickets conform to the type you purchase. You can buy them as refundable or non refundable. It's exactly like buying a ticket on delta.com however you get 20% off. It's your choice what type of ticket you choose to buy.

That's what I thought. Thanks

iaflyer 10-28-2014 05:03 AM


Originally Posted by RockyBoy (Post 1754348)
Anyone else been following the Compact Fusion stuff that Lockheed has been working on?

Some of the oil analysts are starting to work that stuff into their 5 year oil forecasts. One of them today said the crude oil industry will be gone in 20 years just like the whaling oil industry disappeared when they discovered crude oil.

Lockheed says they can power a C-5 for a year with a couple bottles of fuel!

Compact Fusion · Lockheed Martin

Interesting concept. Not a lot of details, but a company like Lockheed Martin doesn't often make a webpage like that on theory and conjecture. Looks different than the other quacks that have been claiming "Fusion is around the corner"

I could see a neighborhood fusion generator or something like that, no high tension power lines needed.

Not enough detail to see how it would work on a plane, but getting a C-5 flying take more than gas. Need a few jackstands too!

pb4ufly 10-28-2014 05:06 AM

1 dec 14 conversions posted on DLnet.

forgot to bid 10-28-2014 05:42 AM


Originally Posted by bohicagain (Post 1754381)
Looked in the contract and no luck.
Day 3 of 4 tommorrow I have a 4 legs 8:15 block 1130 duty with the longest turn time of 44 minutes...
crew meal? Or take delay to get food?
It's 2 turns out of JFK so more than likely turn time will be further reduced

Thanks

Idk, we do these five leg days with 35 min turns, it's enough to walk off and grab something. Maybe not eat it at the restaurant but there's usually something. Best is a sandwich that you can have at your side, Panda express is jfk is pretty fast. Just immediately walk off when the door opens, maybe kick the tires and then go.

Every airport in South Florida sucks for food though.

Of course if your partner is not being helpful, that's a different story. Use the magic words, "I'm starting not to feel good". Just be ready for him to respond with "did I tell you I do cross fit?"

But you can't fly hungry either and protein bars/recycled Chinese newspapers smashed together, don't help.

GogglesPisano 10-28-2014 06:17 AM

Anyone else having trouble with the Travelnet app on an iPhone 5? It loads but displays the circle going round and round (infinite loading loop.) I can't even load the HTML page.

Trip7 10-28-2014 06:23 AM


Originally Posted by GogglesPisano (Post 1754492)
Anyone else having trouble with the Travelnet app on an iPhone 5? It loads but displays the circle going round and round (infinite loading loop.) I can't even load the HTML page.

What browser are you using? I use Chrome and Safari. If one doesn't work properly(usually Safari) the other one works.

tomgoodman 10-28-2014 06:23 AM


Originally Posted by GogglesPisano (Post 1754492)
Anyone else having trouble with the Travelnet app on an iPhone 5? It loads but displays the circle going round and round (infinite loading loop.) I can't even load the HTML page.

Try shutting down the phone completely, then restarting it.

NuGuy 10-28-2014 06:24 AM


Originally Posted by Mesabah (Post 1754385)
Fusion is always just right around the corner.

I think thorium is the better way to go, breeder reactors are more practical.

There's lots of interesting fission reactor tech out there. Liquid sodium, thorium, "breeder", and they certainly solve the solid waste issue far better than the current generation.

But any kind of fission is a hard sell these days, specially anything that can (or potentially) produce enriched materials usable for "other purposes".

Fission certainly scales, but gets fiendishly complex as you do so...sort of like the last generation piston engines for airliners. They put out the power, but were nightmarish in complexity.

Fusion, on the other hand, is turbine like in simplicity if you get the tech right. Fuel is everywhere, scales well, and no pesky emissions or solid waste products that someone could do bad things with.

If what they say is true, and (sooner, rather than later) you could just drive a semi up, plug it in, and start chugging out the megawatts, then that is not only a game changer, but really, a revolution that will change human society forever. Just the socio-economics alone will re-write international relations as we know it. It also opens up the solar system to cheap (relatively) exploitation.

I would expect a novel solution would come from in the industrial complex like LM/SW but we've seen this show many times before. Sometimes all it takes is someone to put the tech pieces together in a new way....like the fascinating story like how the polymerase chain reaction was turned from a complicated novelty to something so ubiquitous that it's absence would now be almost unthinkable.

That said, what LM put out was light on details and rich in promises, so I'll remain skeptical until people start paying to have crude oil hauled away as waste.

Nu


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