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Really interesting read.
Long post worth the read. I have a close friend who flies private jets. He flew Lear 60 for over 15 years and now flies a Gulfstream. This is a copy and paste of his response to me asking him if I thought Ice was the issue.
“We always fly in ridiculous cold temperatures.”
“Usually you get the bad ice when the temperatures are like 0 to negative 20. Believe it or not, there's a point where it gets too cold for ice. At negative 40, you pretty much can't get ice. Besides that, the airplane is equipped with hot wings and hot tail.”
“I flew the Lear 60 for like 15 years. It's a no joke airplane and probably the most dangerous airplane I've ever flown. It has a super critical wing. The airflow has to be perfect. When it gets into rough air and turbulence, it will easily stall. It has stalled on me at 41,000 feet just because we got into some turbulence. (On the way to Palm Beach as a matter of fact. ) we recovered and got her flying again around 30,000 ft. Scary
But here's the problem. This airplane has a terrible coffin corner. (At high altitudes) what that means is, you fly in a really narrow window where if you lose 20 knots, it stalls. And if you gain 20 knots, it goes into overspeed. The air goes supersonic over the wing and it goes into a high speed stall, or worse, a Mach tuck.
So if you stall, the normal recovery is to push the yoke forward to lower the nose and gain air speed again. At low altitude, you can push really hard and recover quickly. But in the 60... if you push hard, it will gain air speed and go into a high speed stall, it doesn't take much. It's very sensitive. The 60 has super short wings that don't make much lift. So then you high speed stall, and the computer is yelling at you... OVERSPEED! So then you pull back and enter a low speed stall. And you go back and forth trying to keep it in the air speed window.
This whole thing is pretty scary. And you should recover basically by using your finger tips using super small corrections. You can't over do it. If you try to muscle the recovery, she gets mad and will become unrecoverable. If she enters a mach tuck. You're done.”
“I taught the Lear 60 to other pilots and mentored them. I told them... this airplane has a soul and it's trying to kill you. Do not ever try to top the weather. Don't go over a thunderstorm. Go around it. If it means a half hour longer, then do it. Going over the thunderstorm will go into turbulence that you might not recover from.
These pilots went right over a thunderstorm. I think it stalled which caused them to drop down into the thunderstorm and ended up in mach tuck. They picked up so much speed that it ripped off the horizontal stabilizer. At that point... chuck Yeager can't fix it.
These same pilots did something similar a couple months ago. ATC got mad at them. They poked the bear one too many times.
This is not a beginner airplane. The Gulfstream would never do this. It has HUGE margins of error and won't stall like that. But then again... it's got HUGE wings. It's a pussy cat.
The Gulfstream is like driving a 4 wheeler. The Lear 60 is like riding a uni cycle.”
Hard telling what part of Twitter is more insightful today - the aviation experts or the election experts.
We’re blessed to have such a well informed communication platform.
Thank god Elon figured this all out.
I suspect this man was a Nightstalker. He’s giving good advice to those who would judge any of the people involved in yesterday’s crash from behind their keyboards.
A person should not: judge a pilot from chalk 2 when they have no idea what is going on in chalk 1s cockpit. There is absolutely a disposition a pilot should have, but everyone (myself included) can reach a point where they lose it over the radio.
There’s a recording of me when we were being shot to crap. I’m not proud of it, but it happened. Easy to armchair quarterback, but that’s not the answer.
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No one is on record with those accusations. They were also leaked by anonymous sources - in violation of civilian law and the UCMJ.
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Fox: Why are you here this morning?
Trump rally attendee: Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to go to South America for the Jonestown Massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here. There's nothing like seeing a cult right up front.
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It should not be up to one human being which nationalities are and are not welcome in this country.
We were designed with a diffused system power-wise (to protect us all) and seem to have forgotten this.
Do we still teach this in American schools?
We would probably do better as a country if we stopped accusing each other of stealing the elections. Trump says crazy shit, but doesn’t really mean it. And the Dems couldn’t organize a monkey shit-throwing fight, let alone a coup.
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US has not spent $350B on Ukraine. It has spent $132B, $33B of that is money. The rest is $21B in loans, repaid from frozen Russian assets, $4B in humanitarian aid, and the vast majority, $74B is military equipment.
Half that equipment is new, made in the US. The other half is old stockpile equipment, which soon would have had to be demilitarized at great cost. The replacement equipment is made in the US, so the money stays in the US.
Meanwhile, the EU and European countries have spent a combined $271B, more than twice as much as the US.
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⚡️Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet leader, confirms in an interview: NATO's 'no expansion' promise was a myth.
The explicit promise he's yelling about boils down to one sentence James Baker tossed out in feb, 1990: “not one inch eastward" — said while they were figuring out how to put a reunited Germany inside NATO without crossing a line with the soviets.
Gorbachev himself has said dozens of times since that It was never written down—It was never ratified—It was only ever about the territory of the former East Germany (the GDR).
Now in 2014 and 2015 interviews he literally called the idea that this blocks NATO enlargement today a myth and nonsense.
Here's Gorbachev in his words, 2015: The decision for the unification of Germany was made without any discussion of NATO enlargement... Using that conversation from 1990 as a pretext for today's events is absurd.
Putin keeps waving this one off the cuff Baker line like it's the Treaty of Westphalia, while ignoring Kohl, Genscher, Bush, Shevardnadze
—everybody in the room, saying the same thing: NO treaty, NO blanket ban.
The actual treaty that ended the matter (the Two Plus Four Agreement) has zero words about NATO staying out of Poland, Hungary, the Baltics, or anywhere else.
Every single ex-Warsaw Pact country that joined NATO after 1998—did it voluntarily because they remembered 1956, 1968, and ofc 2022.
It’s an empty promise that never existed outside one informal chat—and Putin turned it into his favorite security-blanket excuse to bully neighbors who dare to choose their own path.
To this day, Gorbachev still says that the promise never went beyond German borders.
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You guys… I’m starting to think Donald Trump isn’t going to end the Russia-Ukraine war on day one.
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I know we’re pretty numb to it at this point but these random ceasefire announcements that the two warring parties don’t know about isn’t, and shouldn’t become, normal.
It comes across as the US leadership just yelling into the air hoping something comes of it.
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Who would have thought so many free-thinking, anti-vax, Texas good ol' boy, evangelical Christian, MAGA devotees actually lived only in Vladimir Russia....
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It will be very interesting (as I’ve long said) to see how much of the anger Americans have directed at each other was deliberately stoked by those foreign entities who wish us harm. If so, we fell for it hook, line and sinker. Playing into the hands of our adversaries.
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Every once in a while the fundamental difference between Catholics and Evangelicals comes into stark relief:
I support the Pentagon’s decision to livestream the execution of mass-murderer Nidal Hassan.
Capital punishment is commanded by God in Genesis 9:6 to remind people of the sanctity of human life. The more people that can see that truth illustrated through a public execution, the better.
@DeptofWar @PeteHegseth