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Wether water is soft or hard is based on mineral content. Heavy water is neither it is infact atomically modified.

It is funny how the public can live in fear of home invasions yet be unwilling to accept the fact that a dead home invader is not a loss to our society. I am sick of the bleeding heart "but he was only a kid" lines in the news. If a house is broken into and the criminal is killed or injured we...

It is my personal opinion that the US is trying to figure out what to do with all of the detainees. If they were to put all of them on public trial they might end up looking like fools due to a widespread lack of evidence. Or they can hang onto them and not take the risk. Welcome to a very...

Oddly enough I am pushing ten years in the reserves, if I was not trying to do a CT my application would have moved quicker. If you are going to join looking for training fight to get on the Helos and then fight to get as many NDT courses as you can through the forces. Looking for cracks is good...

To put the french defeat in perspective we should all remember that they were defeated by the most powerfull force in the world at the time. The same military that defeated and occupied almost every nation in Europe. If you want to spread the guilt why not look at why western nations were...

If it is totally hollow and free of explosives you have a piece of steel with a time fuze (Not VT) screwed into the end.

If this scares people they do not want to know about the crazy crap rolling around in commercial aircraft wings. 

I guess the problem of accumulating charge bags would be solved by the frequent moves required to avoid effective CB. But then again I want to replace the number three sight with a GPS and gyro, so I am a bit of a "radical".

I second that.

Rolling Rock The Sprite of beer. I remember a dead beat paying off his debt to the mess with a large quantity of Rolling Rock. A beer we could not give away. No really we still have some in the fridge and that was years ago. It even comes in a green pop bottle.

Last I heard they did believe in god. Only they call him by a different name.   If the US feels they can take on the entire middle east without further destabilizing the region they are insane. Gradual change is the key to stability. When religious people are threatened they turn to their...

Read the instructions.

That last post makes me seem greedy. Oh well, damn the free market. If you look at it as a learning opportunity you will not lose out. If you complete your BE and go back to the civie world you will take an understanding of how the military does things in the hangar and the more you know the...

Umm, you are wrong.  The Arrow was the first fly by wire aircraft to employ a gyro stabilized fly by wire control system. The interesting thing is that it used a non moveable "stick" that converted pressure into a control input (kind of like the initial F-16s) through the use of pressure...

Yes. I would have suffered a significant wage roll back for doing the same job on many of the same aircraft as I have already worked on. I guess I decided that I am worth more than the CF is willing to pay, and my new employer agrees.

I was under the impression that the Griffin is a Bell 412 which is a twin Huey with a quad rotor. So a military helicopter based on a military helicopter. They are what they are light utility helicopters, don't hate them for being what they are.

Well they are sort of ours. We can't modify them or manufacture parts for them as we only lease them. If we could have bought them they all would have been barged to Canada to be canadianized but alas not they way things happened.

There seemed to be positions available when they presented me with a less than impressive offer at the end of November.

It is always interesting to sit on the fence. I look to the right and shake my head at the bunch of crazies in that pasture. Then I look to the left and have to shake my head at the bunch of crazies in that pasture. If you choose a camp and never leave you will become trapped by the ideology.

If stress is causing the floors to crack where is that stress now being transfered to? If the floor is stressed by the rough terrain then it must be load bearing and thus structural (it is the floor). A cosmetic failure is something like paint delamination not cracks you can see through...