As the Ag correspondent at WKRP, Nessman should have known this but he was so obsessed with hogs that he probably ignored all other farming.

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Some of the thieves have an accomplice and follow Buster Brown on his rounds, picking up whatever he leaves on porches. Thieves are less likely to be able to follow a drone which, presumably, will only be capable of single-package delivery trips. Drones are also very useful for close up power pole insulator and transformer inspections (sparking can start fires), locating the source(s) of leaks in nuclear plants without necessitating shutdowns and ascertaining the condition of damaged hazmat-carrying freight cars in trains jackknifed in tunnels.

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This topic will disappear once "climate change" (formerly "global warming") ceases to be the cause-du-jour among the "Woke". Saint Greta's one way trip across the Atlantic in a plastic racing boat, which "saved" one Transatlantic seat, lead to at least four unnecessary additional Transatlantic flights as two members of the yacht's westbound crew had to be replaced and flown back to Europe and two replacements flown to the US to replace them for the eastbound leg. The various meetings and conferences, held several times a year in exotic locations, to consider this topic (many of which could be done by the participants online) also leads to increased fuel burn as huge numbers of private aircraft as well as scheduled flight seats are used by participants to jet around the world to discuss how they will reduce aircraft operations. Even the increased logistical requirements of special foods (and even flowers !) being flown in for the conferences leads to further totally unnecessary ad

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I do not know of the current situation (10/2019) but within the last 2 years there was no state or federal authority which responded to unidentified drones operating (performing aerobatics for many minutes) over several nights directly above a nuclear power plant. The offenders were never identified.

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Abatement rules stipulating permitted hours of operation.

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Real turkeys can fly. Its the fat "domesticated" version which cannot.

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How long before we have "Droneways" ? Maybe 350 feet (000 to 179) and 400 feet (180 to 359) AGL over highways with speed and separation limits and climb/descend shoulders beside the "Droneway".

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Its interesting that they can stuff 58 pax (11,600 lbs ?) all the way in the rear of an otherwise empty a/c and not worry about the cofg.

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According to a cynical report I read two members of the boat's crew were flown back to Europe from the US to and two replacements were flown from Europe to the US to sail the boat back. There was no mention about her ongoing travel arrangements to Canada or South America, or the emissions from the diesel busses she sometimes uses. (Perhaps they have Volkswagen non-pollution disclosing computers). She could have addressed the UN from behind a camera in her yurt in Sweden but apparently none of these thousands of climate activists who jet around the world to these scare-the-sheep conferences and meetings in exotic vacation spots is able to use any of the readily available video conferencing tools.

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When my plastic model Tristar and DC10 were too tail heavy to stand on the undercart I just glued some nuts in the nosewheel bay. Why can't Lufthansa put a couple of John Deere 100lb suitcase weights in the electronics bay for each pax at the back of economy.

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