TOAK, The Thread of All Knowledge Part XI
They are going to have me do a driving valuation in a few weeks. Gotta pass basic testing rehab then a road test
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Same here Russ. Was looking for more of a modern parallel to the original. About 7 episodes in.
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Oh yes. Caught some .020" stainless under a fingernail once. Another time I had a brand new .040" bit pop through a doubler I was drilling up and pierced my finger all the way to the bone! Ouch!
Come on to WS 18 and we'll swap sp many stories no one will ever want to leave the ground again.
Come on to WS 18 and we'll swap sp many stories no one will ever want to leave the ground again.
Lot of people probably think something like a new Airbus with fly by wire that supposedly won't let the pilot do something stupid is safest, but I'd take a 40 year old DC9 over a factory fresh Airbus any day. These electronic airliners are incredibly complicated, and they aren't overbuilt like the older Boeing and Douglas planes. Right from the first time I worked on an A320, I never wanted to fly on one, and when I have, I'm real glad to be back on the ground. Just crimping a pin on a wire wrong can (and has) killed an airliner. I've crimped thousands.
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Wow, thats pretty awesome! Independence again.
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Might have helped if she was hot, but hot she was not. I think it was probably just makeup and the hair, she's looked pretty good in other movies.
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You probably wouldn't have liked flying with Doc then, he did some pretty crazy things - everyone that flew Hueys over there did at one time or another. I loved it then, might scare the poo outta me now.