Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”
Mel is a winner of an EGOT....pretty decent accomplishment.
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Mel is a winner of an EGOT....pretty decent accomplishment.
Boris Badenov
This is no laughing matter.
I'll see you in hell, apostate.
Pilot Fighter
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Hah! I majored in being a hobbyist, essentially. Easiest way to explain:
St. John's College | Liberal Arts College with a World-Class Faculty
At our rigorous liberal arts college, St. John's College, students read and discuss the Great Books in small discussion classes with a world-class faculty.www.sjc.edu
The ultimate education for the discerning gentleperson who wishes to have a nodding acquaintance with everything, but mastery (or even let's say a meaningful, modern level of knowledge) of nothing. We're just hell at a cocktail party, though!
Love the St. John's kids. Bring a book to an Annapolis bar. Look like a troubled and misunderstood Jack Kerouac. Pace yourself while drinking. Wait for midshipmen to leave to make curfew. Chase women. Long game.
Boris Badenov
This is no laughing matter.
Don't think we weren't pacing you, Middie. We knew that you knew that we knew you that you knew that you had to be awake at 6am to diagram a nuclear reactor. We just had to stagger in to class to pretend to know wtf Euclid was talking about. Advantage: Johnnie. I also stole one of your hats, as is dictated by our eternal enmity.
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He ended up at the right airline, I can assure you.
Pilot Fighter
Well-Known Member
I wasn't Academy material but was an observant student of Annapolis nightlife.
Murdoughnut
Well sized member
Interesting discussion in the comments about the DA-40 and full spin handling characteristics. Also sounds like a student freezing up on the controls isn't outside the realm of possibility.
www.kathrynsreport.com
Diamond DA40 NG, N853L: Fatal accident June 06, 2021 in Darlington, Montgomery County, Indiana
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final repor...
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Interesting discussion in the comments about the DA-40 and full spin handling characteristics. Also sounds like a student freezing up on the controls isn't outside the realm of possibility.
Diamond DA40 NG, N853L: Fatal accident June 06, 2021 in Darlington, Montgomery County, Indiana
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final repor...
Not going to speculate more than what's already on the comment section on that thread, but I will point out this piece of information. In about 2006 or 2007, diamond were trying to get the DA40 certified with winglets as part of an upgrade package over the straight DA40. It wouldn't pass the spin certification tests, and it ended up being a giant freaking headache for us (I worked for a diamond dealer at the time). Lots of angry customers and lawsuits.
BigZ
Well-Known Member
I owned a 40FP and the only ones ever built after mine were sent to China as spin trainers.
There was an OSB letting you turn a 40FP into a spin trainer. The difference (going by memory here) - only the 40 gal fuel tanks (don't think any 50 gal FPs were ever built), wooden prop instead of chunk'o'metal sensenich, and a canopy mod turning the front hinge into a quick release and installing a couple of hooks to throw it over the tail.
Winglet thing- I do vaguely remember those had an adverse effect in spin recovery testing when coupled with the higher momentum of 50 gal tanks. Rudder was increased around 2006 too if I remember right. That was a part of the 50 gal tanks, but they put it on everything I believe.
Overall the wing aerodynamics and the elevator uplift travel limitinv bushing made the thing pretty spin resistant, but I did put it into a rather interesting secondary stall once - full power, looking sharp, good attitude, no or minimal buffeting (unlike the normal stall on that plane), VS -1500 fps. Chop the power, drop the nose, gently add the power back in, but it was an interesting "huh?"
Wardogg
Meat Popsicle
Your literary street cred just went down a bit.
Boris Badenov
This is no laughing matter.
F it, I give up.
Space Monkey
Arbitrariness replaces reason with authority.
Thank you!
I've wanted to say that soooo many times. But sensing I'm already on the pedant watch list, yeah, I didn't want to regret it either.
Space Monkey
Arbitrariness replaces reason with authority.
Hell, in my red neck of bubba-land, we've had trouble with our PRONOUNS for decades already. All the rest'ay'all are johnny come lately.
Your, You're, Yower, Yer.
Don't get my neighbors started on homophones:
To. Too. Two.
There. Their. They're.
As for the whole (hole?) pronoun debate, here's my humble opinion.
This is much akin to my opinion on abstract art. You don't get to do abstract until you know how to draw formally. In fact, if you don't know how to draw formally, you're literally not yet capable of abstracting at all. You're just making random scratches.
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Boris Badenov
This is no laughing matter.
Space Monkey
Arbitrariness replaces reason with authority.
g'dammit!!!Its.
See what I mean??? Well, do ya, punk? Pride go-eth before the g'dammd fall. Every single time.
I must now retreat to my whole...
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