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#1

Entertainment / John Oliver Explains Tasers

Last post by patric - March 31, 2025, 06:41:27 PM

In great detail, using some adult language: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yd9nLQx3qQ

#2

Other Tulsa Discussion / Re: Another Police Helicopter

Last post by dbacksfan 2.0 - March 29, 2025, 07:48:00 PM

And now DCA has had another TCAS event between a Delta A319 and a USAF T-38 ftom Langley that was part of a missing man formation for a funeral at Arlington.

#3

Other Tulsa Discussion / Re: Another Police Helicopter

Last post by Red Arrow - March 28, 2025, 06:52:25 PM

So, my non-expert opinion on DCA is that civilian and commercial flights need to be moved to Dulles and Baltimore and DCA made a military/government operations only airport. Close the routes flying up and down the Potomac River.

First thing that will happen is all the members of the Senate and Congress will have their heads explode because they will have to go to Dulles to catch getaway flights.

More likely it will become a shopping mall.
 

#4

Other Tulsa Discussion / Re: Another Police Helicopter

Last post by dbacksfan 2.0 - March 28, 2025, 12:55:12 PM

So, my non-expert opinion on DCA is that civilian and commercial flights need to be moved to Dulles and Baltimore and DCA made a military/government operations only airport. Close the routes flying up and down the Potomac River.

First thing that will happen is all the members of the Senate and Congress will have their heads explode because they will have to go to Dulles to catch getaway flights.

#5

Other Tulsa Discussion / Re: Another Police Helicopter

Last post by patric - March 28, 2025, 09:01:40 AM

WASHINGTON — The Senate Commerce Committee's subcommittee on aviation, space and innovation held a hearing Thursday about the collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet over the Potomac River on Jan. 29 that killed 67 people.

One of the key sticking points during the hearing had to do with a transmission system, known as ADS-B, on many aircraft that broadcast its position, direction, speed and other flight data. Notably, this system updates every second, whereas radars update every 4 seconds; time that's crucial in a situation where aircraft are so close.

Most Army helicopter flights in the Washington, D.C., area did not transmit ADS-B data, and many commercial aircraft are only equipped to transmit data about their own flights, not to receive data from other aircraft, according to senators.

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy noted that the helicopter involved in the accident had not transmitted any ADS-B data at all, on any flight, in at least 730 days.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, chair of the full Senate Commerce Committee, said in his opening statement that he was "at a loss" as to why Army policy stated that ADS-B transmissions were not to be used, even on routine flights.

Rocheleau, the acting FAA administrator, said that the agency would require ADS-B broadcasts from all flights in the Washington Airspace starting today.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2025/03/27/senate-aviation-subcommittee-dca-safety-hearing/82673929007/

The U.S. Army's head of aviation Brig. Gen. Matthew Braman acknowledged that as of Thursday morning helicopters were still flying over the nation's capital with a key system broadcasting their locations turned off during most missions because it deemed them sensitive.
When the NTSB checked the rest of the unit's helicopters after the crash, it found eight of them that hadn't transmitted since 2023.
https://fortune.com/2025/03/28/secret-service-anti-drone-test-dc-flights-urgent-cockpit-alerts/

#6

Local & State Politics / Re: Paid Protestors

Last post by dbacksfan 2.0 - March 27, 2025, 11:40:32 AM

Makes you wonder though why it is so many insurance companies are refusing to insure the cybertruck.  🤷�♂️

From what I've read, it's because they are like exotics like Lamborghini, Bugatti, high end Ferraris and others in the fact they are unique vehicles with limited parts availability and high repair costs.

I also think the drop in prices for them has something to do with it. They were selling well over retail, close to $100k over, when launched, now you can get them
for under $85k.

#7

Local & State Politics / Re: Paid Protestors

Last post by Hoss - March 27, 2025, 10:15:03 AM

Makes you wonder though why it is so many insurance companies are refusing to insure the cybertruck.  🤷�♂️

#8

Local & State Politics / Re: Paid Protestors

Last post by dbacksfan 2.0 - March 26, 2025, 04:10:40 PM

The Cybertruck is glued together in several places. https://www.tiktok.com/@car_cultureco/video/7398928427069246763?lang=en

Yeah, Whistling Diesel is an automotive expert. 

He's got three or four videos on YouTube showing how he deliberately destroyed a Cybertruck.

He also burned a Ferrari to the ground in a farmers field doing donuts.

#9

Local & State Politics / Re: Paid Protestors

Last post by patric - March 25, 2025, 06:18:58 PM

The day after "South Florida man drives SUV into Tesla protesters, cops say"
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2025/03/24/south-florida-man-drives-suv-into-tesla-protesters-cops-say/

This guy, in Tulsa...



A Trump supporter carrying a pistol who only gave his name as Eric stands in front of Trump protestor Carrie Ford as she speaks through a
bullhorn on Saturday, March 22, 2025.
https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/local-regional/2025-03-25/tulsa-protests-against-tesla-continue

#10

National & International Politics / Re: President Trump- The Impli...

Last post by patric - March 24, 2025, 05:16:42 PM

Oh, and about those leaks at the Pentagon...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/