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Tuesday, March 04, 2025

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  1. 2) That must be a really high field elevation for a Citation 5 to not be climbing out. Back in the day I used to do business trips in a Citation 5 and we would climb out of mountain runways climbing like a bat out of hell.

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    1. Looks like Atigun Pass, my dad use to fly into there on a Herc.

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    2. Telluride…..?
      One way in……One way out in a Citation V……
      Ed357

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    3. That is the air strip next Mount Everest. It is at 9000 feet.

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    4. Hey, I don’t think that is Lukla; it’s only capable of small turbofan STOL aircraft, not pure jets. Also, photos of Lukla show it more built-up with structures alongside the runway. Lukla does have a grade like the one Ken shows here.

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    5. Tail numbers….N127BU…….French…..
      maybe the Alps….????
      as far as I can tell…..

      https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N127BU

      Ed357

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  2. #10: don't move forward after releasing the ball....

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  3. #1 I have a skunk and I'm not afraid to use it.

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  4. Drill bits that big are usually spade drills.
    #10 She moved. Note the distance between her and the vertical wall behind her changes.

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    1. But what do you drill with it? Besides holes I mean.

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    2. Big holes for big bolts, clevises, oil well parts, heavy machinery....the stuff America used to do routinely.

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    3. I have drilled with one like that but a bit bigger...4"....I did it on a Boring Bar machine. I have seen drills 4 FEET in diameter at old Allis Chalmers in the casting pit, where they made giant castings for hydroelectric dams. The drill head hangs from a giant bridge crane and i has it's own big electric motor drive. They have a big anti torque bar to resist the turning motion of the drill head. Really impressive stuff we don't do in the USA anymore...sadly.

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    4. The biggest drill bit I have in the shop is a 2" and sharpening that thing takes some time and patience.

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    5. IIRC the better way to sharpen a smaller drill bit is to move it perpendicular to the grinding wheel; doing it as shown will get the cutting angle messed up. But never sharpened anything larger than a half inch bit.

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    6. I'd punch holes and sharpen bits like that couple times a week running a big G&L Bickford radial arm drill press. Anonymous moron at 10:32 doesn't know shit about spade bits or chip load or cutting speed. Twist bit done right cuts much easier, I could tell the difference between bits by the way the 8' arm would raise up on the column. Drilling holes in 15" long 1018 or 410/416 bar stock 15-18" OD for turbomachinery glands, a drill is the fastest material removal method with the right equipment.

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  5. #1 A New Jersey Wildlife Expoit.

    #3 A Penny Farthing, In early adulthood I always wanted one of them damn things.

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  6. #5: I actually did this once when a water line broke at my church!

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    1. I live in a farming area. During the growing season I never pass up a chance for a car wash from a pivot irrigation when they spray the road.

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    2. Our former rural mail carrier drove under the end gun on a center pivot once. While it was being used to empty a manure lagoon. He never did that again.

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  7. #10 Surprised he did drop the ball a foot for the swing back.

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  8. Had a friend that had a pet skunk. De-funked. Nasty creature. Burrowed through all the furniture. Was a lot of fun with unsuspecting visitors though.

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  9. To this day, bicycle gears use a measure called "gear inches" which equals the diameter of the big wheel of a penny-farthing. The bigger the wheel, the faster can go but it's harder to pedal. Same thing for 10th gear on your Schwinn.

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    1. Who gives a flying fuck? It was funny, wasn't it? And before you say no, ask yourself if you can do a better job of entertaining people - for free, no less. If you can, have at it.

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  11. #10, every boyfriend she's dated.

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  12. Those long boats are pretty cool. They drag race them, too.

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  13. #9-the old guy taking it in for a TD at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas-home of the Jayhawks. Once every 10 or 15 years they have a passable good team; guys like Gayle Sayers and a couple of decent NFL quarterbacks played there. For fun, Wilt Chamberlin was a walk on for the track team-he didn't give a shit about being a student and needed something to do when basketball season was over. He ran hurdles and was a high jumper. When jumping he'd usually wave off his turn and wait to jump after most others were eliminated. His first jump would always be in his sweats and he'd clear the bar by several inches. Nothing like that to psych the opponents out. He was there only a couple years in the late '50s. The old guy running the football could've played in the 1958 game against Syracuse-the 'hawks got slaughtered by about 72 points-that was the year Syracuse won the national championship. That was the year I was old enough to go with Dad to sporting events at KU. The basketball and track teams often won the conference titles with very strong teams plus several national championships. Weird factoid: KU is sometimes called the Ivy League of the Midwest because a lot of rich Chicago kids go there after failing to get into the real Ivies back east. There is even a high rise dorm run by Marriott with catered meals and laundry service for the big bucks kids.

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