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  1. Thing is, there's nobody overseeing ground "fleet vehicles" like the FAA is supposed to. And ground "fleet vehicle" mechanics aren't required to have extensive training and licenses like aviation mechanics are supposed to. There was a time when shortcutting aviation maintenance procedures was a big deal if you were caught, and could get you shut down, grounded, out of business. But both the FAA reps and the standards aviation mechanics are performing at have been deteriorating for decades. When everyone was qualified and did his or her job reasonably well, everything worked pretty well. Today not so much. And I speak as someone who's seen it from the inside. The laws and regs are all in place to insure against aviation "accidents" pretty effectively, but just like in a lot of other arenas today, if laws and regs aren't enforced for whatever reason, bad things happen. There HAVE been catastrophic airliner events in days past, like the De Havilland Comets literally exploding in flight as the result of metal fatigue in fuselages operating in flight regimes never encountered previously, or the wing failures of Lockheed Electras that, again, experienced conditions nobody had seen previously and so failed to engineer for. But these disasters taught engineers how to build the safest commercial aircraft humanly possible. The problems arise when shortcuts or excessive cost savings or misplaced priorities creep into the chain...from drawing board on out. Again, IF everyone is properly qualified AND does his or her job right...and those are BIG ifs.
  2. Corned beef brisket, with potatoes and lentils cooked in the pot, and sour cream on the side. Never did one before, and my primitive cooking situation isn't conducive to haute cuisine...one huge propane burner that's also my heat, one toaster oven, and a microwave...but man oh man, that was one of THE best meals I've ever had. Pretty decent Australian Yellow Tail Big Bold Red with it, cheap screwtop, but surprisingly well-rounded and complex...perfect for a hearty meaty dish. And there's plenty for dinner all weekend, and sammiges next week.
  3. WARNING WARNING DANGER DANGER...do NOT be confused by this Monogram mess labeled as "Revell". This is NOT the droid you're looking for.
  4. Motors and engines are not really the same thing, as motors are correctly thought of as electrical, and engines have something to do with combustion, but the terms are often conflated.
  5. Yeah, I seem to remember the original Hot Rod mag was cooler than sliced bread right out of the gate (pardon the mangled metaphor). They managed to get it right the first time, with no decades of experience behind them.
  6. Pity the poor bozos who don't know where apostrophes goes, which is a terrible poem, but I'd rather laugh at 'em than show 'em.
  7. I like heem. I wonder what kind of power that injected Jag XK engine is making, and at what RPM...
  8. Probably the flimsiest of the clear materials readily available will be whatever is used for report-covers, sold by stationery/office supply stores. If PTE from a soda bottle is too stiff for your application, I wouldn't even bother trying polycarbonate. EDIT: If you want to put in the effort to get a precise fit...
  9. Sentence-structure rivet-counters could find their heads exploding due to some of the posts in this thread.
  10. Girls don't find me as attractive as they used to, and I'm pretty sure it's 'cause I quit wearing the Rolex, and I don't have a man-bun, tattoos, a murse, or a neckbeard.
  11. Preparation-H on fisheyes may be the ultimate in nouvelle cuisine.
  12. Contaminated surfaces are the primary cause of paint fisheyes.
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