I’ve been to quite a few airports happy to service anything from single-seat ultraights and powered parachutes on up to things like F-16’s, Airbus jets, and B-747’s. My experience as a pilot of small aircraft is that as long as the refueling guys can get the fuel nozzle into the proper hole on your aircraft they don’t much care (well, you also have to pay for the go-juice, but I assumed that was a given).
Military saying it is not a big deal. They are wrong. They should be going out of their way to avoid even a seeming conflict of interest.
Exactly right.
The issue isn’t that military planes can refuel at municipal airports. It’s that Trump directly profits and benefits from them doing so.
Military.com’s story includes this lovely tidbit:
What will it take to get Trump impeached?
I stand corrected. Just thought it might be a bit odd to have a C130 pull in.
He will have to shoot someone on 5th Avenue. And rip the heart out and eat it. And the MAGA hat wearing morons will say, “What a Man”
He’d have to announce he was becoming a Democrat. There’s no other impeachable offense as far as Republicans are concerned.
Walk into Congress and start killing Republicans. Not Democrats; they wouldn’t impeach him for killing Democrats. It would have to be Republicans.
The moment Trump decided to run for office with an R next to his name he became essentially above the law. He can lie, cheat, steal, rape, murder and everyone will fall all over themselves to keep him from suffering any consequences, because protecting and promoting the Republican party of the US is the primary purpose of Western civilization at this point.
A friend of mine is a mental health professional. He admits that he cannot diagnose without an exam, but even without one, he thinks Trump is mentally ill.
The Russian news agency, Tass, says the US and the Taliban are both insisting that Russia be in their joint talks.
Heck, why not invite anyone who’s ever invaded Afghanistan? Britain, India, Mongolia, Iran… They could talk shop.
Well put.
Long ago there was a locomotive company, Alco, that transitioned from manufacturing steam to diesel locomotives. One of its earlier models had a design flaw where the wall separating the lubricating oil passage and a couple of the cylinders was a little thin. Once in a while it would break and the cylinders would start burning lubricating oil.
All control of the engine was lost. Diesel engines are not inherently speed limiting and have a governor that senses the speed and adjusts the fuel rack position to keep the desired RPM. Unfortunately, despite the governor sensing the overspeed and setting the rack to zero, assuming the engineer had not already done so, the engine isn’t going on fuel any more and just keeps going faster and faster.
This isn’t a smooth process, only a few cylinders are still firing and the oil isn’t being properly atomized through an injector but it does run rather lumpily. Crews learned to recognize what the sounds and shaking meant (besides the throttle becoming a mere decoration) and would stop the train to bail off to a safe distance and wait for the engine to seize up when the lubricant was gone – there was nothing else they could do.
This is how I view the Republican party and wonder only at which party will rise in its place, much as the Republicans rose after the Whig party collapsed some 160 years ago.
So, apparently, the US needed to get a top spy in Russia out before Trump blew his cover:
Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017
Once again, it looks like Putin’s investment in Trump is paying off in spades.
Oh, yeah. I forgot to add that that the REAL threat to national security, according to Trump, was Hillary Clinton’s emails and server.
But thank god we have him instead of someone who uses a personal e-mail server, then our security would be in real trouble.
ETA: Damn Russian Ninjas
I guess that was the 244 prime mover?
So true about the modern incarnation of the republican party, especially in regards to the “angry voters” wing. I fully understand why many are angry, hell, so am I at times, but am baffled at their tilting at windmills and barking up the wrong tree. Also, bizarre, no, fucking insane levels of partisanship, errr “negative partisanship” for the sake of itself.
It’s science, people!
NOAA’s arc continues…
Oy vey