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Originally Posted by forgot to bid
(Post 890406)
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Reducing your dept position does many things. Of course it would allow an outright acquisition if needed. It also allows lots of money to be put on A/C deposits.
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Originally Posted by Mesabah
(Post 890362)
The 787 is a big pile of poo, plus it's not big enough.
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Yep, the 787 is a point to point medium sized market jet. The 900 more so.
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Originally Posted by FedElta
(Post 890391)
Hey T, & Jughead,
Seems like I've hit a touchy subject with the A's on the board. I remember the safety guy who briefed my indoc class. He told us that 90% of DAL taxiway and runway incursions happened when the f/o was " heads down." I'll never be a captain at DAL, but I tend to remember statistics like those. I should have qualified my post with IMHO. Just sayin" |
Originally Posted by tsquare
(Post 890508)
I'd love to see empirical data rather than anecdote.. I'm not buying what your guy told you...
Yeah...something about that doesn't seem quite right. I always announce that I'm head down when we're doing the runway change items (making doing the performance analysis even more ironic that it has to be brakes set, but I've barked up that tree already)... the second engine start isn't too much of a head down manuever. Then again, I've never seen us do an incursion either... not from cockpit perspective or outside the cockpit. |
Well, I grew up hating the Cowboys. But next year I might be cheering for them if they replace their (wannabe famous date any Hollywood blonde I can and vacation on a bye week in Mexico) QB with the Cam Newton who I'd suspect, and history shows one ought to strike while the iron is hot, be in the upcoming draft.
I wonder if ESPN is going to have to ask the coaches to take some extra timeouts at the end to get their tv timeouts in? :eek:
Originally Posted by scambo1
(Post 890469)
It will be more interesting to see what the manufacturers do to produce the nextgen aircraft. It appears that the real out of the box, revolutionary thinking is not actually being done by the big two airplane builders. The engine manufacturers (except for pratt - I'm biased) are coming up with some really innovative ideas as well...low alt low speed great fuel economy - to high alt high speed great fuel economy. Various off beat fuels are being tested - most of them successfully.
I hope I'm being objective when I say that still the best plane, optimized for the commercial short haul job is a turboprop - not a jet. http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/a...d/temp-137.jpg Now think about it. A C-130J-30. You board people into a pressurized pallet, you drive it to remote parking where the airplane awaits. You load it on. Off you go. When you come back to the hub they just roll off the current pallet and load the next, therein allowing 10 minute turns at the hub. Don't even shut down, just go, refuel in the air. When someone asks did you get your WDR you're response is "if you were able to close the door then I don't need a WDR." |
The only thing better than the cowboys losing tonight will be Georgia winning this Saturday.
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Originally Posted by tsquare
(Post 890519)
The only thing better than the cowboys losing tonight will be Georgia winning this Saturday.
I envy those fans as it must be nice to live in la la land. :rolleyes: UGA will win though, as long as UF turns it over at least 5 times in their own redzone and then only plays 8 players on defense and the refs don't notice UGA's 14 players on offense. BTW - I married a UGA grad, thankfully, she's too sweet to care about football. |
Originally Posted by forgot to bid
(Post 890526)
If you lived where I lived, you'd know UGA has already declared themselves the winner, they'll win out, win the SEC and go to the BCS and beat anyone they play because they'll be the team nobody wants to play right now.
I envy those fans as it must be nice to live in la la land. :rolleyes: UGA will win though, as long as UF turns it over at least 5 times in their own redzone and then only plays 8 players on defense and the refs don't notice UGA's 14 players on offense. BTW - I married a UGA grad, thankfully, she's too sweet to care about football. I grew up in ATL. And UGA suuucked for many years, yet you would have thought that they won the National Championship every year given my peers in school (and neighbors). Even funnier looking back on it. |
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