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Investigators Find Metal Fatigue in UAL 777’s Failed Engine

National Transportation Safety Board investigators have found evidence of fan blade metal fatigue in the Pratt & Whitney PW4000-112 engine that failed in flight on February 20, raining nacelle debris over a mile-long area of a Denver suburb and leading to the grounding of 69 Boeing 777-200s still in service.

Briefing reporters Monday night from Washington, D.C., NTSB chairman Robert Sumwalt said that one of the blades that fractured at its root contained what he called beach marks or crack arrest marks, visible to the naked eye, that can indicate how many cycles the airplane flew before the fatal crack finally propagated to the point of the blade breaking off. The NTSB has flown the piece to Pratt & Whitney headquarters in Connecticut, where engineers began a more detailed inspection on Tuesday.

That’s bad, very bad.

This has caused Boeing to release an Airworthiness Directive on all these planes and ground the Pratt & Whitney powered 777 fleet.

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Now, I’m not going to say that LGBT people cannot be good engineers.  I have a friend who is a lesbian rocket scientist and is very good at her job.

What I’m saying is that a company cannot serve two masters.

If your company culture is embodied in the tag line of “dependable engines,” then you focus on a culture of excellence in making dependable engines.

If you focus on changing the company culture to something else, don’t be surprised when your engines fatigue and come apart in the sky.

For the people who fly, I suspect they would rather the company that makes their aircraft engines focus on dead-nuts reliability and not the preferred pronouns of the people who make the engines.

Go Woke, go broke is an absolute law of economics.

It doesn’t matter if you sell sporting goods or make jet engines, when you take the eye off of the ball of doing your job to indulge the Woke mob, your business goes to shit.

All of the sudden, I pity the future generations who will be subjected to Soviet-Style indoctrination cartoons. I have seen some and they are amazingly well produced but suck sweaty South Beach gonads.

Wait, what? DeSantis was not up for re-election last November and he is not up for it till November 2022.

How bad is the desperation within Florida Democrats that Wasserman Schulz Sentinel is publishing this kind of crap?

Roger G. aske me an interesting question a couple of days ago: Since defunding the police was the plate du jour, would the Democrats defund the Capitol Police?

Even thou according to sources, the Democrats are trying to distance themselves from that idea because it hurt them in the elections, I believe that they secretly like the principle if it brings forward a way to control cities by fear and the possibly the creation of a Federal Police that would patrol at a local level.

But for the particular case of D.C. I told him the following:

Update on the jury selection process in the Chauvin/George Floyd trial.

Judge is now questioning a 19-year-old man about serving on the George Floyd jury. He seems terrified to be there, wrote that he does not want to serve on the jury.

— Jack Poso ?? (@JackPosobiec) March 9, 2021

Juror #10 asks not to serve on the George Floyd jury due to safety concerns of becoming a target. Judge dismisses him for these and work reasons.

— Jack Poso ?? (@JackPosobiec) March 9, 2021

BREAKING: Juror #8 says he is concerned rioters will attack his house if he serves on the jury and his name is released in George Floyd trial

— Jack Poso ?? (@JackPosobiec) March 9, 2021

I don’t blame them for feeling this way.

The problem is that means that the only people who would be willing to sit on a jury are those who are prejudiced on the side of the mob.

This isn’t any more just than a mob lynching, only in this case the mob gets the jury to do the lynching under the color of law.

Short and sweet. It went to hearing with the Senate’s Criminal Justice committee where three substitutes (amendments) were presented. Two of them were basically castrating the idea or adding unnecessary hurdles and they were reported unfavorable (denied). The other one eliminates the requirement of posting the prohibition against concealed carriers citizens.   Marion Hammer for the NRA and Luis Valdez for GOA were present and supporting the bill. And the usual suspects were there against the bill, but again, nobody from Moms Demand spoke.

My question is: Why is the committee chair a Democrat? He did not like the bill even though he made the appropriate and necessary caring noises about the 2A

General Bill by Perry
Restoration of Civil and Firearm Rights: Requiring that a person who has lost his or her civil rights and rights to purchase, own, transfer, or use firearms or ammunition based on a felony conviction for an offense other than murder, attempted murder, a violent felony offense, or a felony sexual offense have such disqualifications terminated upon the completion of all terms of his or her sentence; defining the term “violent felony offense”, etc.

Read the text.

And somebody finally dropped this long overdue grenade. We allow violent felons to vote but non-violent offenders cannot recover their right to Keep and Bear Arms? Please explain that to the People Mr. Liberal Congresscritter.

Be ready for the avalanche of lies from the Media.

And of course I am in full support of this bill.