People on both sides of the aisle need to wake up and smell the coffee...was this about a alleged offensive statue marking history?...Nope this was all about a law suit filed by the ACLU which was founded by the CPUSA during the 1920's....and is financed mostly by George Soros in todays time.
They filed this law suit for the same reason they always file law suits...to cause protests/riots... they play both sides of the spectrum... the Alt Right and Alt Left ~both useful idiots...the name of the game is to file a law suit ,organize protests, then stir the proverbial pot to cause as much chaos as possible.
This is akin to ancient Egypt...remove a Pharo then remove all history of by placing the chosen one center stage covering all remnants of the past Pharo.
Just follow the money it always leads to George Soros...the Nazi Collaborator WWII...a Jew who stole from his own people while working for the Nazis as a young SS Agent...thats where he started his fortune!
This isn’t a game anymore.
North Korea continues to taunt the world into a nuclear World War III.
And it just became even more disturbing because Japanese intelligence
discovered that North Korea has technology that no one thought they
had.
Kim Jong Un is poking the world bear right now.
He might be crazy by nearly everybody’s standards, but he’s certainly not dumb.
Jong Un seems to be defying several nations’ wishes while simultaneously taunting them into making the first strike.
Why would North Korea do this?
Well, one theory is that they’re trying to force China into choosing
sides. If they can fool their biggest ally into thinking that they’re
the victims, North Korea thinks they’ll have leverage.
The only problem is that China was one of the 15 nations who agreed to sanction against North Korea.
But instead of being furious at their ally, they take it out on the
United States – and specifically President Trump – by threatening to
attack Guam.
And why would they attack Guam with nuclear weapons?
They have developed technology to miniaturize nuclear weapons to send
with missiles that have a range farther than any nation had expected. Breitbart reports:
“A grim milestone appears to be passing, as both U.S.
and Japanese intelligence analysts believe North Korea has developed
the technology to miniaturize nuclear warheads and fit them inside
long-range missiles, years ahead of schedule. Japan’s annual defense review, released on Tuesday morning,
described the threat from North Korea’s nuclear missile program as
“acute.” “It is conceivable that North Korea’s nuclear weapons program has
already considerably advanced and it is possible that North Korea has
already achieved the miniaturization of nuclear weapons and has acquired
nuclear warheads,” the white paper warned. “Since last year, when it forcibly implemented two nuclear tests
and more than 20 ballistic missile launches, the security threats have
entered a new stage.” Accordingly, the BBC reported that Japan has begun its first
civilian air-raid drills since the end of World War II, evidently
stepping up a program revealed earlier this year which taught civilians
in certain towns how to deal with an errant North Korean test missile
(or perhaps a weapon fired at American military installations in Japan)
falling in a populated area. “We’re told to hit the ground or hide behind the wall, but will
that really help? Will that really protect us if a missile really falls
here, I wonder?” asked one Japanese citizen interviewed by the BBC. The Washington Post reported on Tuesday afternoon that U.S.
analysts at the Defense Intelligence Agency reached similar conclusions
about North Korea’s capabilities in a confidential assessment prepared
last month. The DIA report also raised the official estimate of North Korea’s
nuclear inventory considerably, from the handful of bombs hypothesized
by most earlier analyses to almost 60 nuclear devices. The report’s authors believe some of these devices are small enough to be delivered by intercontinental ballistic missile. As the Washington Post notes, North Korea claims it has
successfully tested such miniaturized devices, although their claims
were greeted with widespread skepticism at the time. The missing piece of the ICBM puzzle for North Korea would appear
to be reliable heat shielding to protect the warheads from re-entry, a
technology Pyongyang is clearly working hard to develop. A new poll from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs released on
Monday found 90 percent of Americans “reject the idea that North Korea
should be allowed to produce nuclear weapons,” 75 percent see the North
Korean nuclear program as a “critical threat facing the United States,”
and 62 percent would support using American troops to defend South Korea
from a North Korean attack.”
Kim Jong Un’s actions are incomprehensible because he knows every nation would be against him, and yet he still persists.
It makes one think that he has ulterior deceptive motives.
Yeppers this satire just about sums it up...Jack Burton{Donald Trump} a simple man who doesn't believe in ghosts or majic until he is swept into a mind-boggling adventure deep within Chinatown's mysterious underworld . Burton with his pal Wang Chi {General Kelly} are trying to rescue our kidnapped country! It may be confusing... laced with humor... but in the end Jack wins!
Nowhere here does this say innocent civilians, or a legit
impeachment. On the contrary, this speaks specifically to an illegal
silent coup by corrupt officials using false charges, as has leaked out
by Clinton cronies lately.
by Kirsty Jane
Anything else is a different scenario entirely. Honor our Constitution! Keep it straight.
Americans, Patriots, pray for our nation. Pray for our President.
I’m hearing serious rumblings of a hostile, illegal coup against our
democratically elected President by seditious, deep-state subversives
funded by Soros & other globalists. Very disturbing.
Patriots, this would be nothing less than an act of war against the
American people. It would be the removal of our boldest defender &
last possibility of maintaining our protective Constitution. Under the
boot of globalists, life as we know it, would immediately decline to the
model that suits the globalist interest – Marxist/Socialist/Communist.
They get complete control, you get zero. Freedom, Gone! Liberty, Gone!
This agenda is evil and simply cannot be allowed, at ANY cost.
Like ALL military, law enforcement and government officials, I took an
oath to defend our Constitution against ALL enemies, foreign and
domestic. By abandoning the rule of law and conducting a coup against
the President & policies WE THE PEOPLE elected, they have made
themselves enemies of the United States.
Under threat, ALL patriots, whether civilian, law enforcement,
government, or military, have the duty to defend our Constitution
against such enemies. Some speculate on “civil war”. I readily recognize
a much more sobering reality: Anti-American subversives involved in ANY
WAY in an unconstitutional coup against our President will be run down
and executed immediately by the world’s most supreme warriors. There
will be nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide, no mercy, no sense of humor.
Harsh examples will be made. My prediction is it will be a gruesome
massacre. Why? Because one side in this conflict has 8 Trillion bullets
& the other side doesn’t know which bathroom to use.
It will likely only take a few hours. Lessons will be learned. History will take note. Order restored.
Patriots, We The American People stand united as one, against ALL
enemies. We are peace-loving people who abide by the rule of law.
Prepare yourselves in case this ridiculous insanity actually gets played
out and the rule of law goes out the window under their gross
miscarriage of our legal process. Shaking my head…
United We Stand! At the ready. USA! ???
About 20 minutes into my test
flight aboard the Icon A5, the cockpit alarm started blaring. The
angle-of-attack (AoA) display in front of me, an ingeniously designed
gauge that seemed so delightful moments ago, was signaling doom. We were
in the red. We had no lift. We were about to stall, the point at which
an airplane ceases to be an airplane and simply becomes a massive chunk
of dead weight ready to drop out of the sky.
We were at full throttle, and pilot Craig “Bowser” Bowers, Icon’s VP
of sales and a former Marine F/A-18 Hornet pilot, had the stick held at
its full aft position. If I could have seen anything below me at that
point, I would have admired our view about 1,000 feet above the Hudson
River. I would have taken a look at Fort Tryon to my right and the Ross
Dock picnic area to my left, one last look for all of eternity. I’d
likely see those things soon enough, spiraling around me as we hurtled
toward the water.
But right now, I could not see the ground, even though my window was
wide open. All I could see was the sky, and all I can remember is the
high-pitched whine of that alarm.
And then the strangest thing happened: nothing. We didn’t go into a
spin. Instead, the plane just kind of floated, nose up, in midair. An
airborne Wile E. Coyote, refusing to look down, just hovering. It only
lasted a few seconds, even if it felt like forever. But there was no
spinning, no free-fall toward the ground. In fact, Bowers even turned
the plane left and right, and we actually gained a bit of altitude
during the stall—the opposite of what happens to every other airplane on
the planet.
“The purpose of the demo is not to encourage this kind of flying, but to
demonstrate that the A5 has a remarkable safety feature that helps keep
the aircraft flying and controllable even when the pilot has made the
mistake of inadvertently stalling the aircraft,” says Icon Aircraft CEO
and Founder Kirk Hawkins. “Most aircraft when held in a stall, even at
full power, will enter into a rapid descent which can degrade into a
loss of control or a spin under certain conditions.”
According to Icon, that floating-in-midair trick could have continued
indefinitely—just as long as the plane’s engine didn’t overheat. Rotax,
which manufactures the A5’s 100-horsepower engine—which drives the
plane’s three-blade pusher propeller at a top speed of about
120mph—advises against using full power for extended periods.
The Icon A5 may react very differently to a stall, but recovering
from one is standard operating procedure. Bowers eased up on the stick,
causing the nose of the plane to dip, the aircraft to pick up airspeed,
and we were back on our way up the Hudson instead of shit creek.
What makes the A5’s carbon-fiber frame spin-resistant isn’t any one
thing, but a combination of design elements that have been in
development for the better part of a decade. According to Icon, the A5
required an FAA weight exemption for the Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) class to nail the spin-resistant design.
They needed bigger wings with several unique elements—stall-resistant
wing cuffs, a bit of a twist in the contour of the wing, and
differently designed airfoils on different parts of the wing—and that
required a larger tail. That, in turn, required a stronger tail boom.
All that added up to a larger and heavier airframe, one that clocks in
with a maximum gross weight (that is, fully loaded with passengers and
equipment) of 1,510 pounds rather than the 1,430-pound maximum gross
weight of other amphibious LSAs.
“I wish I could give you one magic bullet or a simple, easy to
understand list of elements,” Hawkins says. “It’s a very complex and
highly integrated problem requiring the entire aircraft to be designed
with this goal in mind. There is no band aid or simple add-on to make an
airplane spin resistant. It’s far more of a careful recipe, unique to
each airplane, that uses many common tools… airfoil design, wing shape,
wing devices, tail shape, fuselage factors, control surfaces.”
There are a lot of exceptional things about the Icon A5 beyond the light
sport aircraft’s spin-resistant frame. The other wonderful things have
been said so much that they are now cliches. In terms of size and
operation, the small plane is as close as we’ve come to an
honest-to-goodness, on-the-market flying car. The propellor is behind
you, which means you have a beautiful, unobstructed, wide-angle view in
front of you. Think about all the money you’ll save on baggage fees. You
can even open the side windows. That means you can do that thing where
you stick your hand out the window and feel the lift on it like an
airplane wing—this time in a real airplane.
But the A5 is also like a flying speedboat; the amphibious craft
doesn’t just take off and land on water, but it also handles like a
jetski in the drink. On the water, you can carve corners with ease.
The A5 is 23 feet long, which is about the size of a ski boat,
according to Hawkins. It has wings that fold back so you can hitch it to
your trailer for a trip to the lake. Those folding wings are also handy
for storage; when it’s folded up, the plane is about eight feet tall,
so if your garage is really long, it’ll probably fit in there. You can
fill the A5’s 20-gallon tank with high-octane automotive gas as well as
aviation fuel. Its instrument panel has been stripped down and
streamlined, simplified from the ground up to accommodate casual and
novice pilots.
According to Icon, it also handles a bit differently than other
aircrafts. During our short test flight in the A5, I was allowed to
steer the plane for a bit as we sailed above the Hudson. I hadn’t flown
before, and I was amazed at how little effort it took to turn the plane
left and right. It wasn’t finicky, and there was plenty of feedback on
the stick; you just didn’t have to muscle the controls to steer the
plane. Bowers instructed me to grip the stick with three fingers of
pressure and gently steer the plane; gripping the controls like a
joystick with a clenched fist would have produced stronger, jerkier
movements.
“There’s a fair amount of variability among aircraft,” says Hawkins.
“Some require high control force inputs, while at the other end of the
spectrum, others may be hyper-sensitive, even ‘twitchy,’ which can be
unsettling to a pilot. The A5 was designed to have appropriate control
force input and responsiveness to give user confidence when flying it.”
According to Icon, the A5 is designed to feel smooth and responsive down
to its cables, pulleys, bell cranks, and pushrods that connect its
controls, as well as the materials used in the bearings of those
systems.
Although the plane has a range of more than 300 miles on a full tank,
the two-seater isn’t really built for hopping from New York to Boston
or Cincinnati to Cleveland for that afternoon business meeting. In the
same way a convertible sports car isn’t made for running groceries or
family road trips, this is a plane made for the sheer enjoyment of
flying around.
According to Hawkins, the A5 is also built with the “democratization
of flying” in mind. That concept goes beyond the Icon A5’s safety
mechanisms and car-like instrument dashboard; it also has to do with the
license you need to fly the A5. In order to pilot Icon’s little
plane—or any of the 130 or so light sport aircraft available—you need a
Sport Pilot License. Qualifying for that type of license requires about
half the flight time you need to get a private pilot license—a minimum
of 20 hours of flight time as opposed to 40 hours—but it also comes with more restrictions.
For example, you can only fly during the day, you can only fly
two-seaters, you can only fly in nice weather with at least three miles
of visibility, and you’re limited to flights up to 10,000 above mean sea
level or 2,000 feet above ground level.
With a Sport Pilot license, you’re only allowed to fly in Class E or G airspace, and you need permission from a foreign aviation authority to fly outside of the United States. Dan Johnson,
a longtime recreational airplane reviewer who now concentrates on Light
Sport Aircraft reviews, says that if you follow the book, the sky is
your oyster.
“Using a Light Sport Aircraft is truly not that much different than
taking out your motorcycle for a ride,” says Johnson. “If you stay out
of high air traffic areas, particularly major airline airports (in B
airspace) an A5 pilot will enjoy great freedom… If you follow the [FAA
rules], you can largely just go fly. If you wish to increase your
allowed functions, you get with an approved instructor, take additional
training, get him/her to sign your logbook, and you can do the added
things. It’s really a pretty free system but with some constraints.”
The FAA doesn’t seem too concerned at the prospect of hundreds of
newbie pilots flying these vehicles around willy-nilly. “It is the
responsibility of the aircraft owner to maintain the aircraft in an
airworthiness condition for safe flight,” the FAA public affairs office
told WIRED. Otherwise, some stiff penalties may apply.
“A $1,000 fine per violation is possible, and in more severe cases a
suspension or loss of certificate,” says Johnson. “Very few pilots are
ever charged with such violations. Greater determining factors are peer
pressure plus insurance and tort liability.”
So even if you’re a responsible and licensed Sport Pilot, have
somewhere between $189,000 to $250,000 to spend on an A5, and have a
huge garage, your dreams of flying your own amphibious toy may need to
wait a bit longer. According to Icon, the production facility in
Vacaville will start production slowly, as the company wants to solve
any unforeseen problems before producing the plane at high volume. They
hope to have 100 airplanes shipped by the end of 2016 and around 550 A5s
in the land, sea, and air by the end of 2017.
Icon also has more than 1,500 preorders to fulfill. If you order an A5
today, you’ll likely have to wait till 2018 to get it. Think of it as a
holding pattern. Or a mid-air hover.
