Don’t know how accurate this is, I know some of the so called “alt” accounts were grift.
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Ronald Regan vs John Foster Dulles in the ultimate showdown.
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The music automatically starts playing in my head…
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Some good mishap news.
“Duty Insp. Jongdong confirmed that the plane involved was a Cirrus aircraft, which is currently the only light plane equipped with a parachute system.”
Money well spent, I say.
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Thanks Elon & DOGE!
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Aviation peeps: are they talking about the cable thingy that the aircraft tail hook connects to? So the aircraft landed, possibly hooked successfully, but the cable didn’t work?
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Yes, the cable thingy.
Naval aviators (don’t call them pilots!) land at full power so they can take off again if they completely miss the cables. My presumption then is that they grabbed one of the cables but it didn’t tension properly to fully stop the aircraft.
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They’re better than pilots!
Allegedly, the F-4 Phantom II could make a landing attempt with the engines barely more than idling and still spool up quick enough to pull up again with ease for another go if it had to.
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Technically #3; the first one was lost to friendly fire shortly after take-off. No casualties.
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Stop Feeding F/A-18 Hornets To The Red Sea No Matter How Hungry It Claims To Be
Nothing new as such, but I really like the headline.
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Parlous? Is that supposed to be perilous? . . . Ok, after Googling, apparently parlous is an archaic, humorous shortening of perilous. Why it’s appearing in that headline, I have no idea. AI? Overly aggressive use of Roget’s Thesaurus?
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The Register just likes to use words that went out of fashion a while ago.
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hey, i had to goog it, myself!
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I read lotsa 19th C books, so was hip to it.
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Grew up in WV, that’s how it would be pronounced in Mountaineer. Not that this is a recommendation, of course!
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