Who handles mx for Brickyard ? There must be common points between the separate E75 braking systems, I imagine the failure might have occurred at one of these. However one question would be : Did the tires blow on touchdown or in response to crew action to remedy the main brake failure ? If tires blew first then debris may have disabled both hydraulic systems - look at what tire debris did to AF4590.

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Superficially these solutions might be appear practical in small companies in a non time critical environment. But in a large organisation with locations across the globe it is much more difficult. One example: For events such as people leaving almost each week, having protocols mandating frequent password changes is very difficult and leads to password resets when the user forgets their latest and locks their account by exceeding the permitted retries. Removable backup devices are dependent on data volumes. Again an administrative difficulty for a large organisation. But also keeping track of the backup devices and restoration procedures demands a competent, disciplined, approach. Its one thing to "run the backups" but its another thing to know what generation to restore and how to do it. As for "the cloud", you need to be sure that you can reach your data out there when you need it. With remote users "working from home" and other locations such as a truck stop or medical fa

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I feel that the issue in this particular case should not be firearms but the fragility of our computer based (and internet dependent) systems. Firearms are not the only danger to society. For example, before 11 September 2001, how many of us imagined that 15 Saudis with razor blades could murder 3,000 people in a few hours one morning ?

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This is the first time I've seen "Call, Climb, Confess". I was told it was Number 1 Fly the Airplane. More explicitly "ANC". "Aviate, Navigate, Communicate". Under Aviate the first bit was "Ararrs HitYou" ArArRS ("arars"). Whats the Altimeter reading, Whats the Airspeed reading, Whats the Rate of Sink" and how are these readings changing "IDS" - Increasing, Decreasing or Steady. Then HttHU ("hit you") Height (over terrain/towers) and Heading - (Is Compass Increasing, Decreasing or Steady) and Underneath (whats under me/where can I land).

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Francis Gary Powers mentions that it his book. He was apparently over the Sinai area and realised he was leaving a contrail. Change of altitude resolved the issue.

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Hi Relics, I wouldn't be sure about DG. Andersen on Guam is a lot closer and the Philippines is between Guam and all the Chicom activity around the Spratleys, if this bird was having a look at that. Now Wake is a little bit further east than Guam but flights also would have to cross the Philippines to get to the China Sea. Wake is also a lot more private than Guam. And there's been a lot of work going into Wake over the last couple of years, they relaid the 9800 foot runway and seriously expanded the aprons at both ends. So I'd think Wake over DG.

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Hi Scott. Thanks for this explanation of how some companies who are outside the EU have chosen to avoid being fined by the EU. Now I understand why some links I've sent to people don't work for them but do for me.

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I haven't been able to get this remarkable series of 1920s barnstorming like incidents out of my mind for the last few hours. It reminds me of stories about "Grumman" bush pilots in South America operating out of some of the small artificially extended lakes and rivers in the 1950s and 60s. In actual fact the pilot, Collier, overcame each of the difficulties he encountered enroute and was able to successfully patch up his kite to continue his journey, almost to completion. Many long-distance aviation pioneers had similar series of failures and near disasters but were deemed heroic on completing their journeys. Collier's final difficulty may have been equally non-disastrous had the FAA not requested he keep the landing gear extended on this leg. It seems that he was skimming the water with the amphibian in a potentially successful landing just before the wheels dug in. Initially the a/c floated and took a while to sink. Perhaps the penetration of the hull which permitted water in

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I didn't notice any reference to and "Trumps", single or plural, in the posted article. Was this reference in a different article about this incident to the one that was posted here ?

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I didn't notice Collier's (the actual pilot) age mentioned. It seemed that the seller, Lynn Swann (a "retired pilot") was the 88 year old.

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