I have a friend who is one. She believes that the Earth is ringed by ice walls that are protected by an army from NASA. Also, the United Nations knows this to be true because of their flag. No joke. Whenever she gets started on that crap, I just slowly back away.

(Written on 2021年09月10日)(Permalink)

I cannot "like" this enough! 100% agreement.

(Written on 2021年08月13日)(Permalink)

Not just that, but the jobs that lead up to the jobs being paid peanuts for living out of a suitcase. I had to get out of aviation in 2009 because there just wasn't any money in it. I was making $12.50/hr as a flight instructor at a larger flight school in Florida at the time. With a wife who worked and a 2 year old, we were still going broke! I had the health insurance on us at the time, and some of my paychecks weren't enough to cover the insurance premium, so I'd have to write a check tot eh flight school to make up the missing amount.....meaning that I was having to pay to go to work! So I said screw this crap and got out of aviation altogether. I miss flying, don't get me wrong, but until there's some money in it in the feeder jobs, they're going to have a tough time trying to convince folks to sink $100k into licenses for a career that pays less than $20k a year for the first 5-7 years, if not longer.

(Written on 2021年08月06日)(Permalink)

Thank you, Robert!

(Written on 2021年07月16日)(Permalink)

Except that he didn't prevent Dwight from becoming an astronaut. That was NASA's call, not Yeager's. The Kennedy White House was so hellbent on having a black astronaut that they sent a black pilot to test pilot school, which Yeager commanded at the time. The problem was that Dwight wasn't test pilot material. Yeager himself said that he had nothing against black pilots, and had flown with some really good ones, but that they didn't put in for test pilot school for their own reasons. Yeager had to relax standards and give a ton of extra help to Dwight, who wound up barely scraping through the school. So Yeager did his part. When Dwight was sent to NASA as an astronaut candidate, they chose not to select him.

(Written on 2020年12月11日)(Permalink)

Whoever downvoted this apparently doesn't understand what this thread is talking about. Oh behave!!

(Written on 2020年11月14日)(Permalink)

Mermaid Man: "EVIIIL!! EEEEEEEVIIIIIILLLL!! DEATH RAAAAAAY!!"

(Written on 2020年11月13日)(Permalink)

Beats sea bass! LOL!

(Written on 2020年11月13日)(Permalink)

Sad to see that KFLO will be left with no airline service at all. Delta pulled out in 2011, now AE is bailing. While I understand that the area isn't what one would call "bustling", it is still sad to see them go.

(Written on 2020年08月21日)(Permalink)

Here's an update: https://www.stripes.com/news/europe/he-was-the-love-of-my-life-air-force-pilot-who-died-in-f-15-crash-remembered-for-his-kindness-and-faith-1.633928

(Written on 2020年06月19日)(Permalink)