Houston area (along with DB's not from Houston) BS thread

Go anyways and enjoy the party. If anything you could be a spotter lol

 

Just hand them your $25 and don't make direct eye contact.

 

I already paid, and I bought a tshirt lol

 

Helping out a guy who lives out of his van, fingers crossed I don't end up in joe pool lake

 

The article states that they don't want end users to be able to access proprietary information that is contained within the ECU/DME. Just a guess here, bue if a 14 year old can hack into GM's CAN system and be able to start, unlock, operate all essential functions, and track one of their products using 15 dollars worth of parts from Radio Shack there is a larger issue at hand here that they are trying to cover (btw this happened at the Batelle CyberAuto Challenge).

 

You're an atttractive woman. Plus you're riding along.

I suck at spotting. I like to drive lol.

It's no biggie. If I'm in the mood I might come out for one day and just pay the gate fee for spectating.

 

There's going to be attractive women there?

I know the feels I like driving until one wheel is in the air. Then I clinch and pray

 

It took about 2 years, but this vid finally is going viral.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVyeEGoUSRY

 

I'm sure we can put some toyota badges on his truck. Tell them it's a heavily modded tacoma

 

Did you even read what I posted lol

 

Isn't Kelly going with you?

 

Repost

 

Hush! Keep driving

 

So apparently this is the story behind the crash. I found it on Facebook.

"We appreciate all of your prayers and support! This is an account of the last few days written by our cousin Roger that tells how blessed and fortunate we are and hopefully answers your questions:
"There are very few things that can move me off of a grandchild trip, but two names that will do it every time are Cousin Edd and his wife Nina. I think the message that caused this trip back to Texas is pretty straightforward... "(Cousin Edd) was in a plane crash this morning and is being air flighted to Houston Memorial. No one was killed."
My son and his wife knew I was headed to Houston. They knew right away. So, eight hours after I walked into their house, my son and I are in a taxi headed for São Paulo airport with a glass of Jameson each.
Edd Hendee flies airplanes like he lives life... he is thorough and well prepared. Edd was the pilot in that crash and I will try to reconstruct the flight.
Edd has a large Cessna twin-engined airplane with turbo-chargers for extra power and high altitude flying. He was on a business flight, coming home from Kansas City to Houston. He crossed the Texas state line as thunderstorms were rolling across Texas. Big nasty thunderstorms.
This is not what you think. Not Edd Hendee. He reads the radar, turns to his passengers and says, "Sorry boys, we are setting down." Careful and thoughtful, procedures well within the safety zone.
So they land in a small town in Texas, tie down the big twin engine and head for a motel. And he has the tanks topped off for the next day's flight in case they need to maneuver around more storms.
They sleep the night, and have a breakfast. There are two others, a long time friend, and a representative of a vendor where Edd buys the main products for his business. In the right seat , or co-pilot's position is his friend. But before Edd starts the airplane he does a thorough preflight. I have been with him and it is not routine, he pays attention to every detail. It is his job when he is flying. He drains some gasoline from the tanks, check for water, there is none. He walks around the airplane feeling the surfaces, checks the tires, pulls the blocks from the tires, looks for leaks that may have happened during the night and more.
Here is what we think we can reconstruct from the flight...
About 8:30 Edd starts up the twin turbo charged engines, goes through his preflight checklist (he has flown for years and still goes through a written check list) and every thing checks. Magnetos, trim, flaps, all perfect. They get clearance to roll and lift off for Houston. The weather looks good and Edd double checks his radar on the plane. At about 700 feet above the ground they hit a layer of cloud that is about 800 feet thick. They break out at 1500 feet into the clear just as Edd detects something isn't right.
The amount of pressure his engines should be taking in on intake is light and the temperature of his exhaust is too low. Suddenly one engine begins to choke. Fair enough, this happens, he trims up and does what he needs to do if he loses that engine. He has trained for this for years, over and over. The engine dies. It is woking no more.
But the "good engine" is showing the same signs and a few seconds later it quits. He is at 2100 feet above the ground and now the airplane becomes a glider. It is a poor glider, it is more like a brick. Edd knows he has to keep his airspeed up so he can control the airplane.
There is an old adage in flying, you give up altitude for speed. So he points the nose down to maintain around 95 miles per hour. In a few quick heartbeats, he hits that cloud layer at 1500 feet and he cannot see what is on the ground. He is far enough from the airport that there is no turning around. We heard from the tower that he declared an emergency and was very business like on the radio.
That's Edd.
At 700 feet he pops out of the cloud, he is losing about 700 feet per minute at that time and gets his first look at his options.
Edd is in east Texas. It is loaded with piney woods, the exceptions are small or populated. In fact his chances for survival under any conditions are close to zero. Pilots do not lose two engines at 2000 feet and survive because there are so few options available. Probably most pilots with that little time to make decisions do not do well.
Edd has at best a few seconds to choose a landing spot and then he has to get busy making preparations to bring the airplane to the spot and make it happen.
Here is what Edd sees...
When he sees the ground for the first time, he sees a four lane highway. Even better his airplane is lined up for the highway. No turns.
It gets better.
During rush hour, there is a long break in the traffic right where he will touch down. What doesn't realize is there are light poles every 300 yards or so.
He drops his landing gear and does the very best he can to flare the airplane to slow his vertical drop before they hit. He misses the light poles, hits the highway and bounces crushing his left landing gear. They come down again, the right landing gear collapses and is torn away and lord knows what happens to the nose wheel. But it's gone. They slide down the highway into the median, and there hit wet soil which slows them down quickly.
They come to a full stop with the airplane's wing tank barely over the side of the road of oncoming traffic.
They are alive.
Edd asks his passengers to clear the plane as he shuts down all of the electrical and takes care of the airplane. Finally Edd comes out, slowly, and limps over to the side of the highway and lies down. His back hurts.
They are sniffing for fumes in case there is a ruptured tank looking for signs of a fire or explosion. They smell fumes alright, but it isn't gasoline. It smells like kerosene.
This afternoon the FAA verified that the airport loaded the airplane with jet fuel (kerosene) instead of aviation gasoline which is very high octane gasoline. Kerosene will not run in an engine or engines like Edd has in that airplane. Edd's airplane cleared the fuel lines of gasoline and then the kerosene hit. Bad news and worse news.
When they broke through, it was the hand of God.
Edd was care flighted to Houston and is now in the hospital. He shattered a vertebrae into pieces, one of them floated into the spinal canal and had the spinal canal not been large, he would have been paralyzed from the waist down. As it is, they think his body will heal itself entirely in 90 days. The body will consume that piece in the spinal canal.
The hand of God.
Edd is sore, and has to wear a back brace when up 30 degrees from horizontal. But he can sleep without it and lie in bed. We watched him walk and move around the room several times today. He actually walked across the hall today to see a friend.
Just to let you now everything is going well for sure, a new nurse walked in this morning and before she could get to Edd, the rest of us, his "friends," had suggested to her that he needed an enema, a prostate exam, and a catheter, in that order.
Yep, things look good.
I finally got to a friend's house to take a nap later in the day and could not sleep. I was shaking like a leaf.
This afternoon we returned and left before dinner. Before we left, there were grandchildren crawling all over the room. Edd was in his element.
And Nina, dear Nina, who did not know for 2 1/2 hours anything except he was alive; drove up to the crash site, found him, and stayed with him the night in the hospital in Houston. Nina has been there every step of the way. And some steps with no idea what was going on.
Edd and Nina are blessed as are we all.
God bless and carpe life.
May you drop out with no engines at 700 feet and be lined up to a four lane highway.
Amen.
(I will be off for a couple of days again as I fly back to Brazil Sunday night. Two charts are attached for those of you that are pilots. The second chart is notoriously inaccurate but interesting.)"

 

no, there will not be. don't get your hopes up

 

She would have been happier with he just gave her all his money, fuck the flowers

 

Damn it jon

 

I'm home

 

Lol hopes were never up I just wanna wheel and get drunk and I'm not sure in which order