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I didn't see this posted anywhere.. Two days ago a simple request was made on Reddits /r/flightsim by a user whos grandfather was dying. I invite you all to read this thread and watch the most beautiful thing the flight simming community has ever put together to send off a fellow simmer. Need someone to stream a flight, AA#1121, this Thursday. Will pay. : flightsim (reddit.com) In the end. 65 fellow simmers, and ATC volunteers sent this veteran simmer the best send off he could have.. CptCanada stream of this beautiful event can be seen here A Celebration of Life for Brian, from the entire FlightSim Community - YouTube

Todays Friday story is a pretty short one. It's about killing chickens, The Great Chicken Slaughter Ed Van Rhenterghem operated a large chicken ranch about a half mile down the road from Uncle Bob and Aunty Mit's little ranch in Salinas. He had several hundred chickens and sold eggs and chickens to stores and restaurants in town. Aunty Mit had a part-time job at his ranch candling eggs and plucking chickens. Whenever Lee and I went to Salinas for a week or more, Mr. Van Rhenterghem would hire us to feed chickens, gather eggs, and do odd jobs around the place. We would usually feed the chickens about mid morning and then again late in the afternoon.…

In a few hours, China will have a go with Tianwen 1 Here's a nice map of who's done what:

Partial eclipse on Thursday. Peaks at 11:13. https://news.sky.com/story/rare-solar-eclipse-to-appear-in-uk-skies-this-week-as-spectacular-ring-of-fire-phenomenon-occurs-12326891 Don't burn your eyes out boys and girls.

8 Jets, 14 helos? Can those numbers be correct?

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Maybe I'm getting too old or maybe Alzheimers is creeping up on me or dementia. I just don't get it anymore. Would somebody please explain to me the following commercial I saw on television this evening. https://abancommercials.com/oscar-mayer/-aposkeep-oscar-sandwich-bed-apos-ad-commercial/139807/ Noel

"The FAA has ordered airlines to update average weights for people and baggage to keep flights safe". Sounds like their suitcases are heavier too! https://www.wsj.com/articles/heavier-passengers-on-planes-mean-new-safety-limits-for-airlines-11623243606

How about this boys and girls. Mars in 72 hours (not sure how you slow down) and our nearest star in a few hours! https://www.nasa.gov/ames/ocs/summerseries/2018/phil-lubin "Experimental cosmologist Philip Lubin recently presented interstellar space travel scenarios at the Optical Society’s Laser Congress in Boston, informed by his direction of the NASA Starlight and Breakthrough Starshot programs.Lubin, a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, believes that by tapping into photonics-driven propulsion, researchers are well on their way to making laser-light-powered spacecraft that can deliver humans to Mars within one …

I'm a little late for the Friday story. Got caught up in the alien space ship and UFO conversations and forgot about it until just now. Going Downtown Going downtown was always an adventure for Lee and I. At first, Mom used to take us shopping with her. Then, when I was about 9 and had joined the Cub Scouts, Mom let Lee and I go downtown by ourselves. Downtown was a pretty long walk from Larkin and Pacific, especially for runt towheads with short legs. Depending on our route, it was about twenty blocks from our house to the Emporium, the major department store on Market Street. Sometimes Mom gave us cable car fare, but usually we walked. We knew w…

More than a dozen supersonic jets ordered from Boom.

This is what I was expecting to see when I watched the show, and I was pretty disappointed that they were either too cheap or too lazy to do it. This is one of those little details that let you know that the people making something care. https://heavy.com/entertainment/star-trek/fan-fix-for-data-in-star-trek-picard/amp/

On last week I took a Discovery Flight here in Baton Rouge to see if I really wanted to pursue my PPL. I loved my flight and my CFI was great. He complimented me on a few occasion from what I learned from Flight Simming over the years. Check out the video.The visuals are great but the audio isn't the greatest (I didn't set it up right) but if I decide to move forward, the rest of them will be great.

At one time there was a web site that listed all the Flight sims payware airports and locations where to buy. Do anyone remember the name of that site? Thanks in advance😁

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/iss-nasa-warns-of-danger-after-international-space-station-robotic-arm-struck-by-orbiting-debris-9xzhwnklq Looks like space junk travelling at 17,500 mph hit the robotic arm

Lately I have been having balance problems so I've been walking with a cane. Last week my doctor ordered a CT scan of my brain to see if I had a mini stroke. Yesterday I saw my doctor and he said the scan was negative. But he ordered me a walker and sent a request to DMV for me for a handicapped parking sticker. Those of us who are doing our post-graduate work on aging are all going through this to one degree or another. For me I am lucky. My difficulties are failing eye sight and balance but the core, my heart and lungs are still strong. So I have some time left to pursue my indoor hobbies. A bit of writing, a lot of reading, watching old movies on television…

Causing a stir on Reddit and in the news. Of personal interest of me, as I've always wondered about the accuracy of of our modern depictions of historical figures. Abraham Lincoln Photo Shows President as You've Never Seen Him Before

First of three test flights to 89km. Not quite space (=100km), which Bezos' Blue Origin will do in July. Great that here is such wide interest in space again; Paul Allen's Stratolaunch flew again in April. A shame that it might not live out Paul's dream.

I think I posted a shorter version of this here before. But I expanded it a bit and did a rewrite so I could add it to my collection of stories. My First Love I was in about the 7th grade. It was after school and I was walking to a friend’s house along Van Ness Avenue, the street that all the automobile dealerships were on. I was almost to the corner of Sacramento street when I saw her. I think it was in the Studebaker dealership. There she was standing to one side of the floor. I went inside and walked right up to her and put my hand on her side. A dealer walked up to me and said, “How do you like her kid? Do you want to sit in her?’ …

Soprano Patricia Janeckova was only 14 years old, which is why the Miss Reneta contestants in Czechoslovakia look surprised (Once Upon a Time in the West). The Danish Opera (The Good the Bad the Ugly).

Fr Bill, I seem to have misplaced the story you reminded me of last week. It was the time I got arrested. One of these days I'll find it and post it. Meanwhile I hope you enjoy this one. Salinas The Belgian Congo, the Australian Out-back, the Amazon Jungle, the Gobi Desert, Salinas. These words always conjured up visions of explorers and adventurers. Salinas is a small city located about 90 miles south of San Francisco in the heart of the Salinas Valley. Salinas is the lettuce capital of the world, and that rich agricultural valley produces most of the country's artichokes and strawberries too. Salinas was also where Aunty Mit and Uncle Bob lived.…