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Businesses, shoppers brace for higher prices if tariffs on Mexico and Canada imports start Saturday
Following are edited excerpts from a current NPR report:
Businesses and shoppers in the U.S. are bracing for higher prices on everything from gasol…
@Gary1952: Hope you aren't needing gasoline, major appliances, a flat-screen TV, automotive products, or lumber to build a home, because taxes on anything imported from Canada or Mexico will increase by 25% starting tomorrow.
Note: It's some 50 years since I was an Air Traffic Controller, so the radio technology may have changed. But if it is still the same, civilian air traffic and military air traffic use completely different radio channels (frequencies). The controlle…
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced that investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the airplane involved in Wednesday night’s midair collision with an army helicopter near Reagan airp…
Here are excerpts from a report by NPR. For those interested, the NPR report includes approximately 30 minutes of recorded Terminal Approach Control (TRACON) radio traffic at Reagan International prior to and through the collision.
Minutes before t…
WASHINGTON—Just after 8:47 p.m. on Wednesday, an air-traffic controller at Reagan National Airport relayed a seemingly ordinary inquiry and instruction:
“PAT25, do you have the CRJ in sight?” he asked a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter, requesting …
C'mmon you guys...
"TDS is an acronym for Trump Derangement Syndrome, a term applied to people who express deep loathing and fear of President Donald Trump. It's usually used by Trump supporters for liberals."
500 feet of altitude and 185 mph when they lost both engines, and evidently all electrical and hydraulic power. They managed to get the plane safely on the ground, and likely would have survived if the ILS antenna installation had been properly desi…
Following is an edited report from Aviacionline:
The Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 accident revealed critical issues related to the power sources for the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and Flight Data Recorder (FDR). Both recorders stopped functioning appro…
@JD_co said- "Pucker up, Jamie. All heil the leader. Yes, politics at play."
The same thing happened in Germany also. All the big companies and financial institutions were major players.
"You can bet the Texas acreage promised for detention camps will quickly be populated"
Yes, and I have to wonder if the "detention camps" will have a "Work makes one free" promise over the entrances. (If so, those signs would likely be made in Chin…
"The non-operative recorder is the biggest mystery to me."
@hank- Yes sir, me too. One thing does occur to me though- I have no idea of the actual circuitry feeding the data to the two recorders, but it would seem probable that there would be "tran…
"Didn’t a cockpit crew member survive? Able to talk?"
@hank- No sir... both of the two survivors were cabin crew who had been seated in the tail section- about as far back as possible.
@BaluBalu- I just don't see how you can expect a gutless and spiritless listing of executive office mandates without additional commentary when those mandates will send the United States in directions undisputedly in contradiction to our history a…
What's "hateful" about the truth, Edmond? You in favor of Trump's female excursions? He's very much in favor of promiscuity for himself but against allowing women control of their own bodies. Kind of one-way, seems to me.
Or is all of that "fake" t…
"$2500 for one hour for your time..."
When I saw that I thought that it was just another episode of Trump and some bimbo. Wells Fargo and Trump share a lot of perspectives, so I wasn't completely wrong.
I've been an Apple/Mac person since day One, back in the 90's. But they have morphed into the Big Brother Who Knows All and Best. I don't trust them at all now.
"Tighten the border? OK, but not with stormtrooper tactics. Anyone who knows history should be terrified right now."
Exactly: Here are excerpts from a current Off-Topic discussion:
A major step in the disintegration of the United States is going t…
And so it begins-
The Pentagon is rushing to cobble together options for an operation that President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency. These additional service members and capabilities, if all approved, would vastly expand the military…
