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Kind of like when at one point they made airlines replace the butter knife with first class meals with plastic one, but let the metal fork stay. The fork was more of a potential danger then a dull butter knife ever would be...

No idea what they do now, this was about a decade and some change ago.

I suppose the glass bottle of root beer is no worse then the glass bottles of booze you can buy at some airports after security.

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Cariba, I'd guess, which was mostly pineapple juice, or at least tasted strongly of it.

ETA I found a picture, appears to be pineapple and grapefruit.

http://www.canmuseum.com/Staging/Images/Cans/14482L.jpg

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or Lilt. With the "totally tropical taste."

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Fair amount of delays and diversions on 11/23 in San Diego due to fog and low visibility with the airport below minimums a few times. Pretty much happens on an annual basis around end of Nov and into early December for a bit.

Luckily it's not often this airport has weather issues.

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Any plane spotters in Turkey? ffs

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The situation in and around Syria has just got a teenie bit more complicated. I guess my enemy's enemy isn't always my friend. :unsure:

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That particular aspect can hardly have come as a surprise to anyone. That was never going to go well.

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It's OK, that was always such a stupid statement anyway.

Maybe we should just sit back and let Russia knock themselves out. All we have to do is put ISIS in a fleet of Ladas, let them drive on Russian highways for a few days and they'll all be wiped out.

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Way more than three sides always has been.

Russia is a friend of Assad and is mainly bombing a variety of moderate rebels with the odd stray bomb accidentally hitting daesh to make it look kosher.

Turkey hates Assad but tends to hate Kurds more so has been encouraging daesh to attack the Kurds.

The Kurds hate most people but have been one of the few local groups relatively successful against daesh with their peshmerga fight well against them with US support.

The moderate rebels hate Assad but are not one cohesive group and have their own tribal alliances.

Iran hares...

Etc etc etc

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The arabs, and others in the Middle East, have been fighting each other for over 3,000 years. Only a fool would suggest it is likely to stop in anyone's (who's alive today) life time. :(

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What about after they re-rack the weights?

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An interesting article about the history and future of the B52's. Apparently a USAAF pilot who qualifies as a pilot today can still look forward to a long career flying B52's.

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It's looking at a 90+ year service history if the current plan stays. That's an incredible record, but the B52 is a great plane so it's well deserved.

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There are a few articles out there with 3 generations of the same family flying these planes, grandfather, father, and the current generation, maybe the 4th generations can even take part at this rate....

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US Airways flight last year....

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...-crash-419808/



http://dms.ntsb.gov/pubdms/search/hi...=0&TXTSEARCHT=


http://dms.ntsb.gov/public/57500-57999/57967/583021.pdf

Airlines are banning the "hover board" things.

http://www.aircanada.com/en/news/151208.html

http://news.delta.com/delta-bans-hov...considerations

American, United, British Airways,Alaska, and Alligiant all have bans in place, likely more airlines do as well....