smith8732 said:

I don’t see anything

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Not you I sent him a pm hours ago

mosin46 said:

not making a big deal about the Saudi citizens involvement in 9/11. you are making a big deal about an simple observation that our "friends" in the ME are not uniformly our friends. any direct Saudi involvement in 9/11 has never really come up. don't deal with my other questions as you will. not necessary. i am aware of the obsessive love for Israel present in a lot of places including congress,MIC,exec branch,CIA and the many Zionist fundamentalist Christians in this country. we'll see where that leads in the next few days or weeks. maybe Iran will be totally devastated,maybe not.

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From experience, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, until their usefulness wears off is how they played it in Iraq and Afghanistan. That seems to be a common thing over there.

babyguppy said:

the cheap way, is a tac nuke
the expensive NON nuclear way, is a telephone length pole, accelerated at high speeds from orbit....... just saying
The other route, is just DECLARE - imminent domain, and take 99% of IRAN for low income housing, and ship most of our prison population over there to help build the houses. Bacon and burgers for the workers.

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You're talking about the "Rods from God" plan.

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kthomas said:

One of the great ironies of this war is that it's allegedly being waged because a country who doesn't have nuclear weapons and is a member in good standing of the non-proliferation treaty, is being accused by a country that secretly has nukes and isn't part of the non-proliferation treaty of attempting to build nukes (with no evidence to back up that assertion and counter to US intelligence assessments).

Things that make you go

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Good standing. Are you kidding? Iran?

Pm Sent

_Windrider_ said:

Without knowing the exact specifics of the 787, is there someway that a pilot could induce a configuration where it attempted a takeoff with the center tank feeding both engines and there was a subsequent failure of the center tank system? Or do the wings always feed the engines and the center fuel is transferred to the wings.

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The 787 fuel system is pretty much the same as the 737. Center pumps are "over ride" pumps and wings are "boost" pumps. The over ride pumps are higher pressure and "over ride" the wing tank boost pumps... You would take off with all 6 pumps on, which is what we do in the 737. IF you had a center tank pump failure the wing tank pumps are already running.

AND if all 6 pumps were off you will still get suction feed from the engine high pressure pump as long as the spar valve(shut off valve is open).

The only way on takeoff you could have a fuel starvation loss of power is if the spar valves were closed... Those are controlled by the fuel cutoff/start levers as well as the fire switches. There is talk of them closing in a loss of A/C power situation... Im digging back into my 737 systems knowledge here from 8 years ago, but I believe they are alternately powered off the standby power bus. So even if you lost main A/C power you still have power to the spar valves via standby DC power. 737 doesnt have a RAT so thats battery power. If the RAT deployed and is producing DC power then the spar valves would have remained open IMO... Again thats how the 737 works, maybe in the 787 something else has control of the fuel shut off valves...

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Defiantly_Not_Bender said:

Who TF let you back in?

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I'll ask the same about you.

fdkay said:

If they had used a manners or mcmillan they probably wouldn't be having the stock issues.
Dry film moly lube is your friend in climates like that.
I concur with the postulation of changing temps inside/outside.

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I think you're right as they would still be waiting on them

dmsato said:

I’m interested. You ship to a Hawaii FFL?

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Nope, thanks

Welcome to the forum!

DocRDS said:

Half the guys say borescope, half say don't scope. Is there a good guide on effective use and what you are actually seeing?

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Borescopes are an excellent tool for checking your cleaning effectiveness (especially the carbon ring).

They are also a good tool for investigating accuracy issues AFTER checking the more obvious culprits first.

What borescopes fail to do is determine whether a barrel will provide acceptable accuracy - before any rounds are fired. This is where a lot of their 'misuse' comes from.

Gunfighter14e2 said:

Related?

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/20/portland-rioters-target-federal-officers-with-fireworks-explosive/

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It wouldn’t surprise me.

TTT

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Wild dog said:

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No expertise required. They can fight their own damn wars. We don’t need to pay for or die for their bullshit.

Yes, thanks.

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This is the best thing I've seen all week!

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