UA803 IAD-HND just lost an engine on takeoff at IAD. Currently headed to a hold to burn off fuel before return to IAD. Picture from my son at IAD jet center. @rk1878
United Flight 803 UA803, a 777 enroute from Washington Dulles IAD to Tokyo HND, has engine fire on takeoff and is now dumping fuel in Fredericksburg before returning for emergency landing.
Dulles fire is putting out large brush fires on runway 1C.
https://t.co/WrXXyg6UBk
BREAKING: Sugars essential for life have been found in pristine asteroid Bennu samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Combined with previous detections of amino acids and nucleobases, we see that life’s ingredients were widespread throughout the solar system: https://t.co/Tb3HpwZG9J
More on the study led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of @TohokuUniPR⤵️
@LycanCooks@EmmaVigeland Michael Vickers delves into this in detail in his book “By all means available”. We used them for what we wanted and left. Two decades later lots of the same players made 9/11 happen. It was so frustrating to read about it all.
@gkblankenship@DanCrenshawTX Would you say we “won” the GWOT? 7,000 Americans dead in response to 3,000 Americans dead. We had bases in Afghanistan that are now Taliban controlled. We lost man. No documents needed, I have the KIA bracelet on my wrist to remind me.
🎃 Happy Halloween! This morning, #LCFR & Inova Loudoun Hospital teamed up to spread smiles to kids & their families in the hospital’s pediatric unit! Technical Rescue personnel dressed in costumes & rappelled from the roof, stopping to interact with kids through the windows!
The infamous Hurricane Hunters just had one of the wildest flights in history today.
Flying straight into the heart of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, a Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules aircraft, call sign TEAL 75, was slammed by violent turbulence
The G-forces were so extreme they may have stressed the aircraft’s frame, forcing the crew to abort the mission and return to base in Curaçao for inspection.
Inside Melissa’s eyewall, the C-130J was thrown hundreds of feet up and down in seconds, nearly 700 feet of vertical motion within a single minute.
The crew also reported that the eyewall had a “sawtooth” appearance, an indicator of the storm’s chaotic and extreme structure.
Yet even amid chaos, the crew captured historic data, a central pressure of 893 mb and astonishing wind gust of 252 mph just above the surface, setting a world record for the highest wind gust ever measured by dropsonde in a hurricane.
The plane then spent more than 35 minutes circling inside the eye of one of the most violent storms ever observed in the Atlantic, searching for a path out of the hurricane that wasn’t filled with lightning and extreme turbulence.
These brave men and women risked their lives, without pay, to gather critical data that helped forecast the track and intensity of Melissa.
A legendary plane ride that will go down in history.
@CaptainCons I mean…have our interceptors taken down any actual ICBMs before? It didn’t seem like they disputed anything else about the movie except the purported success of our untested interceptor missiles. The movie seemed pretty real to me especially how indifferent folks were at first.
The morons in ICE have zero clue about Halo lore. The Flood is over 10 million years old and survived every attempt at extermination, the Halo rings were made to destroy all sentient life to starve them. The Flood has never been defeated, also Master Chief worked with aliens.
Privileged to be down in College Station, TX again-this time for advanced structural collapse 4. Slowly earning my way to the TEEX USAR Specialist certification 💪🏼💪🏼