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These are in my neck currently
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Next one up from those where the margin is decreasing is where problems lay now.
 
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cuttin edge said:
I remember that. The stewardess got sucked into the hole, and the sudden blockage caused the rest of the section to come off. Wife thinks I am crazy to watch Mayday.... she hates flying.
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I watch airdisasters all the time. Its good that high time equipment operators are not like high time pilots that forgot how to fly a plane, and can't even recover from a stall. New airliners are pretty scary, too many gadgets in the cockpits, and lack of control cables.
 
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chidog said:
I watch airdisasters all the time. Its good that high time equipment operators are not like high time pilots that forgot how to fly a plane, and can't even recover from a stall. New airliners are pretty scary, too many gadgets in the cockpits, and lack of control cables.
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The brother of a guy that used to price jobs where I work is a pilot. He has his own little runway for his plane. I graded it for him a few times. He flew for Air Canada for years, and I believe his daughter flies the second seat in a 777. Said when you are landing a 747, and your rear gear touches the runway, you are 13 stories in the air in the cockpit. I asked him what his thoughts were on 1549 going in the Hudson river. He said that is a prime example of what they want in a pilot. He didn't panic, he was clear and level headed, and he saved those people.
 
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And be very happy the electronic controls had power, if not Sully wouldn't have made it.
He is an awesome pilot, it seems most that have tried a ditching in a modern jet liner end up ripping it apart.
 
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If you dont like religious stuff dont read any farther.
I was racing 1/4 mile Dirt track cars rolled a car 7 times the cage colapsed and the seat belt broke my collarbone . My back was also killing me . I got to the hospital just happen no ambulance that night at the races. They Xrayed my back my back was broken . They put me in a ambulance and hauled me to the city. I know what my future looked like and i was scared . My mom got to the first hospital and rode to the city in the ambulance with me. I prayed to God i wouldnt be paralized i know my mom did the same and she called home and told Dad what had happen and to prayed for me. They looked the x rays over that i had with me and told me not to move because i could be paralized i was straped and taped to a board . They took more xrays . Then and started running more tests. I meet with a specialist he said when did i have the surgery on my back ? I meet another Doctor and he ask about what had happen to my back and when was it repaired? I told him i never had a back surgery before . He left the room then came back and started questioning me agin it was like i was a criminal and he was a cop trying to get the truth out of me. I was gettin mad i told him wouldnt i have a scar ? He finaly said i dont know what has happen but your back it is ok . They cut me lose from the board and put my arm in a sling for my broken collarbone.
 
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Sounds like those Voo Doo practicing Veterinarians that worked on me in '77. Maybe they got a better offer at your hospital.
 
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Old Doug said:
If you dont like religious stuff dont read any farther.
I was racing 1/4 mile Dirt track cars rolled a car 7 times the cage colapsed and the seat belt broke my collarbone . My back was also killing me . I got to the hospital just happen no ambulance that night at the races. They Xrayed my back my back was broken . They put me in a ambulance and hauled me to the city. I know what my future looked like and i was scared . My mom got to the first hospital and rode to the city in the ambulance with me. I prayed to God i wouldnt be paralized i know my mom did the same and she called home and told Dad what had happen and to prayed for me. They looked the x rays over that i had with me and told me not to move because i could be paralized i was straped and taped to a board . They took more xrays . Then and started running more tests. I meet with a specialist he said when did i have the surgery on my back ? I meet another Doctor and he ask about what had happen to my back and when was it repaired? I told him i never had a back surgery before . He left the room then came back and started questioning me agin it was like i was a criminal and he was a cop trying to get the truth out of me. I was gettin mad i told him wouldnt i have a scar ? He finaly said i dont know what has happen but your back it is ok . They cut me lose from the board and put my arm in a sling for my broken collarbone.
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Nothing wrong with that. You believe or you don't. I look at it 2 ways. If you do, and you have faith, nothing anyone says or does should affect your belief, and you shouldn't feel threatened by them. If you don't believe, that's your choice, and you shouldn't be trying to turn others away from what they believe. We all die at some point, and it is, or it isn't, no reason why both sides can't co-exist.
 
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I had a teacher in high school that had male pattern baldness. He had 4 or 5 hairs that were probably 20 feet long and in the morning he would weave them back and fourth over the bald area. To him in the mirror it must have looked like he had hair but it looked terrible.
My hair line is starting to recede, taller fore head syndrome. I have very bushy eyebrows. I used get my barber to trim them but now I have been letting them grow for a few months out so I can comb them back so no one will know I am going bald.
 
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