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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 12:33:45 JST 
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This is disturbing. Surviving extensive background checks used to be a requirement for being on the Secret Service or to possess a TS security clearance.
This piece of shit was doxxed recently with a long history of Antifa & communist activity. With this, there is no way he should have been allowed anywhere close to any government official or given the time of day, let alone being snapped into a VIP security detail.
Makes you wonder who else like this is in the ranks...and or of this guy aided in any of the Trump assassination attempts...
https://justicereport.news/2024/11/14/exclusive-trump-hating-antifa-and-online-extremist-is-a-us-secret-service-agent/ -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 07:55:50 JST
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When we were going through the VA business grant application process, dealing with the incompetent busy-work niggers that compose 99.999% of their workforce was beyond futile...provided you got as far as someone answering. It took two lawyers and a former congressman to push our application through, for a program I was entitled to take advantage of.
That institution needs to be shut down and rebuilt from a clean sheet. -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 06:40:01 JST
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This checks out with other stories I've heard in military circles, especially when it comes to southeast Asia. Back in 2007, I had an acquaintance I worked with; shortly before he left the service, he was telling me about 'a woman he met while on leave in Thailand' that he was totally smitten with, and his plans to move there and marry her. (If you saw what this cat looked like, the country bumpkin he was, it'd be easy to conclude as to why he would opt to visit a country like that...just saying.) Anyways, he actually followed through on it and we kept in touch regularly until he went radio silent in 2010- his email addy finally went offline in 2020.
My guess is that, knowing him, he fell for something shady and is no longer among the living. -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 11:13:41 JST
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If I were President, I'd do a couple things upon taking office-
1. Declare Israel a criminal & rogue terrorist state
2. Call the Ayatollah and say "Do it!"
3. Start negotiations aimed to create and maintain mutually beneficial relations with Russia and Iran
4. Have my first post on X as President simply be "N" and see what happens.
5. Liquidate any niggers & kikes left. -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 10:05:16 JST
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My wife's cousin is an engineer for the Gromov Flight Research Institute (similar to NASA, but White), and when we got married close to Zhukovsky some years ago, he took us to meet some of his colleagues, Mr. Bogdan being among them. Eduard Yelyan (first flight engineering test pilot on the Tu-144 & Hero of the Soviet Union) was my wife's grandfather, but he passed in 2009, but part of his DNA lives on in my son. Anyways, the folks I met were not debonaire or uppity like some of my fellow western engineering test pilots tend to be. Incredibly humble folk.
My wife's grandfather is the one sitting in the left pilot seat...
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 19:39:40 JST
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For all the trannies, faggots, and pedoes reading this thread, just a reminder:
This is a real, soft, supple and fertile WOMAN. Something you will never be. -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 22:06:53 JST
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Willkommen, Herr Peanut. -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 13:06:27 JST
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We'll be bettering the local extortionist POS Joel Osteen. He sent his Citation X out that way from here Monday morning with just 750 pounds of supplies according to folks we know. We're taking a Piaggio P.180 with 3 souls aboard, minimum IFR fuel, the rest of it supplies (2092 lbs according to our weight & balance)...packed out to MGTOW. About 3 hours after we depart in the morning is a Chevron-owned Lear 60 will be following, loaded to the brim as well.
The locals on the ground we spoke to sais it is a shitshow there, and have instructed us to an alternate parking area at KAVL away from the main ramp where they'll meet us to avoid govt activities interfering. I am understanding most of this stuff will be transported either by helicopter or pack mule team to their destinations.
NC is an open carry state, so we'll be armed accordingly. -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 13:06:25 JST
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Finally ops complete for the day. Uneventful flight to Asheville. After offloading our donations (after telling the FEMA lackey who tried getting into our business to fuck off), we volunteered to medevac four folks to Bristol, then on to Nashville. We loaded up this little old Avanti once again, but with more stuff than earlier today. It'll be a quick trip to Knoxville tomorrow, drop off and refuel, then back to Houston.
Overflying all of it, I'm left stunned. It's bad, folks. If you are able to help, do it. Please. -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 10:59:14 JST
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Spent the last two days making calls and pulling some favors, but three of us got a bird on loan and donated fuel and we're packing her out to max takeoff weight with donated supplies, food, etc.
We got a PPR (a temporary landing permit) for KAVL (Asheville) and will be received by known folks there, not govt. Once off loaded, we depart for Nashville to overnight and reload, that load goes to KTYS (Knoxville). Once done, we'll head back home.
It'll be a long day tomorrow (at the shop at 4am local), and will return to Houston on Friday afternoon, but worth it. -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 10:35:39 JST
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 09:33:49 JST
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Yes, many American women are found wanting. But nothing is sadder than a female politician (AOC in this case) who brazenly & brainlessly questioned the legitimacy of the transportation & agriculture industries when she famously quipped:
"Why do we need truck drivers or farmers when everything you could possibly need can be found at a supermarket?"
The Roman Empire could not have been too far off from modern day America when it finally collapsed... -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 20:27:29 JST
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Although well-intentioned, all patent & copyright laws do is stymie competition.
I like the open-source world, because it breeds competition and what comes out on top is as good, if not better than their expensive commercially-produced competition.
To give an example, there were many attempts at creating parametric CAD software, but in a relatively short period of time, FreeCAD became the top player. There were plenty of office software applications, but LibreOffice wound up on top. Innovation reigns supreme under the protection of all the different types of open source licensing out there.
Have a project that doesn't hack it? Better have some thick skin... -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 09:59:31 JST
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Just think- a couple hundred years ago, a bunch of villagers went to war over a tax on some tea. Yet, here we are, allowing this shit to happen, again, unabated.
What a country... -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 10:25:25 JST
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When the feline began to hate... -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 03:10:22 JST
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This one offsets asymmetric thrust from an engine failure... -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 02:46:17 JST
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It has been around longer than you can believe; but only in the last 30 years have aircraft come online that have much better performance. The recent big deal was the FAA finally allowing the use of non-certified avionics in certified aircraft, breaking the stranglehold that the avionics industry had on the sector, driving down prices by near orders of magnitude.
For example, four years ago, a Garmin ADS-B capable transponder, just one part of an aviomics stack, was once over $12,500. They are now less than a tenth of that...new. -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 02:10:49 JST
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 01:05:15 JST
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Agreed. I wish the plaintiffs luck; but it will be a very tough sell in court. In the E-AB world, any manufacturer has clients sign waivers holding the manufacturer harmless if anything goes wrong, because when it comes to the build part, the builder is by all accounts THE manufacturer, and is ultimately responsible for ensuring the suitability of everything he/she chooses to use for flight use. FAR Part 21 outlines this as well, hence a part of the "51% Rule".
But the questions will be "how was I to know that this material was fraudulent?" and "how can you claim that the product was made in America when you knew it wasn't?".
The kicker about this whole thing was that the boomer who owns the company actually piped up saying that he had been subsidizing the company out of pocket the last few years. In other words, he knew they had bad accounting and bad product, but did nothing, likely because he was that convinced of his market position. Typical boomernomics.
In either case, the reputation of the company is toast. -
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Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 00:35:32 JST
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Indeed. RIP to American presence in the major commercial aviation segment. Boeing's leadership only have themselves to blame for their woes. Fuck 'em.
However, I am in full agreement with several trade publications with respect to the light aviation sector. Cessna & Beechcraft, while fully American, have priced themselves out of the market. Cirrus & Piper are foreign owned & controlled companies that are American in name only, whose products are also rediculously overpriced.
Our corner of the segment, the Experimental & Amateur-Built market, went stale years ago with one company, Vans Aircraft, becoming the defacto leader by way of more-than-friendly and beyond sleazy fanboy-tier media coverage...and deceptively low prices.
For years, they bragged about how all their kits were 'Made in America'. Thanks to the company owners presence on the EAA Board of Directors, Vans Aircraft received the lion's share of coverage. A glance at their monthly magazine, Sport Aviation, would lead one to think there were no other choices out there.
Then, less than a year ago, despite near-monopolization of the market, Vans went into bankruptcy. Why? They lost their asses due to replacing a ton of defective kit parts. This was when it was discovered that the majority of their kits (about 85% worth) were produced in the Philippines. So much for their 'Made in Murica' claims, right? At least that explained the low prices...kind of. Also, they are staring down the barrel of a massive class action lawsuit, due to the aluminum metals used. Turns out the main reason behind the low prices was the fact that the metals were sourced from China. As is tradition with cheap Chinese shit, not everything was as it seemed. A spar with "6061-T6" stamped on it was not the case with some aircraft. We discovered this with a client's Vans RV-9A that was showing abnormal signs of fatigue in the spar. That bird, that the client spent 10 years building, is no longer airworthy after just five years and 337 hours of hangar-kept, well-maintained, normal, non-aerobatic use.
Yeah, Vans is done. Numerous other kit manufacturers are going under due to a general lack of demand, because after Vans' flex, what they offer is a copy of something that has already been done. You can only do so many scaled down warbird replicas, so many ultralights, so many Long EZ look-alikes. Literally nothing new; nothing next level. Nothing better.
We are entering the market with what we hope is an answer to these problems.
Stay tuned.
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