Magnum Research Desert Eagle DE44 MK19 Semi-automatic 44 Mag 6″ Steel Gold Plastic 8Rd 1 Mag Fired Case DE44GO
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Smith & Wesson M&P 15 Semi-Automatic Rifle, 223 Rem, 556 NATO, 16″ M4 Barrel with A2 Birdcage Flash Suppressor, Black Finish, Black 6 Position Collapsible Stock, Adjustable Rear Sight, One 30 Round, Additional Side Front Sling Swivel, Removable Carry Handle
KRISS Vector “Super V” SBR (Short Barreled Rifle). Semi-Automatic, chambered in .45 ACP.The world”s lightest, most controllable and most accurate short barrel rifle. The patented KRISS Super V System virtually eliminates felt recoil and muzzle climb.
Magnum Research 1911G Semi-automatic Single Action Full 45 ACP 5 in Steel Black Wood 8Rd 2 Mags Fired Case Fixed Sights DE1911G (DE 1911 45ACP 5 in BLK FS)
Springfield Armory Limited Edition Camp Perry M1A . Semi-automatic rifle, chambered in .308 Win with 22 in barrel. This Camp Perry model has a custom engraved walnut stock and includes a hardshell display case, a canvas bag, one 10Rd magazine and are fitted with Camp Perry Limited Edition adjustable sights.
Springfield Model 1911 45 ACP, NRA Camp Perry Limited Edition Mil-Spec Semi-automatic 5″ Steel Frame Stainless Finish, Wood Grips with Hard Carry/Display Case + Canvas Bag, Limited Edition Certificate and One 7-Round Magazine
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Sig Sauer Blackwater Special Edition P226 Semi-automatic Double Action, Full Size, 9MM, 4.4″ Barrel, Alloy Frame, Blue Finish, Black Wood Grips with Blackwater Logo
Category: Flying|Comments Off on Seen Overhead Today: 1957 North American T-28
1957 North American T-28, Reg. N649DF at 3400 ft, flying at 201 mph from Dallas Executive Airport to Fort Worth Meacham International Airport at 9:40 AM.
Update:
Seen again today at 1:10 PM flying at 3900 ft and 184 kt. returning from Fort Worth Meacham International Airport to Dallas Executive Airport. Flight landed at 1:17 PM.
Category: Flying|Comments Off on Seen Overhead Today: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Reg 164994 seen overhead while flying at 3000 ft, departed from New Orleans, LA, arrived at Fort Worth Alliance Airport at 12:23 PM.
Update:
Seen overhead again on March 19, flying at 3700 ft, from East Texas Regional Airport in Longview, TX to Fort Worth Alliance Airport at 1:15 PM.
Seen again at 1:47 PM on March 20 at 3075 ft. from East Texas Regional Airport in Longview, TX to Fort Worth Alliance Airport
Category: Ingenuity|Comments Off on Untethered, No Net
“Perhaps the most-terrifying space photograph around.
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II floats untethered away from the safety of the space shuttle, with nothing but his Manned Maneuvering Unit keeping him alive. The first person in history to do so.”
Category: Homefront|Comments Off on Amazon’s “Reacher” (without Tom Cruise) May be Watchable
When retired Military Police Officer Jack Reacher is arrested for a murder he did not commit, he finds himself in the middle of a deadly conspiracy full of dirty cops, shady businessmen and scheming politicians. With nothing but his wits, he must figure out what is happening in Margrave, Georgia. The first season of Reacher is based on the international bestseller, Killing Floor by Lee Child.
Category: Flying|Comments Off on Seen Overhead Tonight: 1942 Douglas DC-3, Reg. N87745
1942 Douglas DC-3 owned by Douglas 87745 LLC of Cleburne, Texas, flying out of Fort Worth Meacham International Airport.
An awesome sound of WW II power in the night sky.
Update 1:FlightAware shows almost same exact flight path repeated on December 4, 8, 9, 10 and again on December 11 (today).
Update 2: Seen again at 9:10 PM – same flight path!
Update 3: Seen twice again tonight: 12/12/21 at 6:40 PM and 7:40 PM – same flight path!
Update 4: Seen twice again tonight: 12/14/21 at 6:45 PM and 7:38 PM – same flight path as before; same awesome sound.
Update 5: Seen again tonight: 12/16/21 at 7:34 PM and at 8:22 PM – same flight path.
Update 6: Seen again tonight: 12/17/21 at 6:47 PM, again at 7:40 PM and again at 8:50 PM – Awesome!
Update 7: Seen again tonight: 12/18/21 at 6:25 PM, again at 7:45 PM, again at 8:34 PM and again at 9:23 PM.
Update 8: Seen again tonight: 12/19/21 at 6:36 PM, flying at 1,375 ft. and for the second time tonight, at 7:26 PM.
Update 9: Seen again tonight: 12/20/21 at 6:17 PM, flying at 1,425 ft. and 129 kt.; again at 7:22 PM at 139 kt.; and again at 8:21 PM.
Update 10: Seen again tonight: 12/21/21 at 6:19 PM, flying at 1,675 ft. and 127 kt.; again at7:30 PM; and tonight at 8:27 PM. So much awesomeness!
Update 11: Seen again tonight: 12/22/21 at 6:16 PM, flying at 1,700 ft. and 125 kt.; again at 7:30 PM, 1,750 ft. and 124 kt.; and again at 8:27 PM, 1,725 ft. and 135 kt.
Update 12: Seen again tonight: 12/27/21 at 6:19 PM, flying at 1,625 ft. and 134 kt.; again at 7:28 PM, 2,250 ft. and 124 kt.; again tonight at 8:26 PM, 2,000 ft. and 115 kt.; and again at 9:26 PM, 1,950 ft. and 127 kt.
Update 13: Seen again tonight: 12/28/21 at 6:12 PM, flying at 2,025 ft. and 117 kt.; again at 7:28 PM, 2,125 ft. and 124 kt..; again at 8:25 PM, 2,100 ft. and 104 kt.; and again at 9:25 PM, 1,950 ft. and 125 kt.
Update 14: Seen again tonight: 12/29/21 at 6:29 PM, flying at 1,850 ft. and 115 kt.; second flyover at 7:25 PM – 1,875 ft. and 112 kt.; third flyover at 8:25 PM – 1,800 ft. and 114 kt.
Update 15: Seen again tonight: 12/30/21 at 6:18 PM, flying at 1,825 ft. and 123 kt.; second flyover tonight at 7:14 PM – 1,900 ft. and 129 kt.
Update 16: Seen again tonight: 2/12/22 at 7:34 PM, flying at 1,300 ft. and 110 kt.; and again tonight at 8:46 PM, flying at 1,275 ft at 118 kt.
Update 17: Seen again tonight: 2/14/22 at 8:19 PM, flying at 1,650 ft. and 111 kt.
Category: Flying|Comments Off on Seen Overhead Today: 2nd Time Sighting This One
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Boeing B-29 Superfortress
FIFI is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress. It is one of two B-29s that are currently flying in the world (with Doc being the other B-29). It is owned by the Commemorative Air Force and is based at the Vintage Flying Museum at Meacham International Airport in Fort Worth, Texas.
Category: Flying|Comments Off on Today’s Overhead Sighting
Antonov 124 UR-82029
(Image from AirHistory.net)
Update:
This flight originated at 4:14 PM CDT from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) enroute for 8 hours and 53 minutes to England’s Glasgow Prestwick International Airport (PIK).
The following day (9/26/2021 at 7:07 AM BST) it continued for 7 hours and 33 minutes to Dubai, UAE’s Al Maktoum International Airport.
Fresh evidence submitted in a major 9/11 lawsuit moving forward against the Saudi Arabian government reveals its embassy in Washington may have funded a “dry run” for the hijackings carried out by two Saudi employees, further reinforcing the claim employees and agents of the kingdom directed and aided the 9/11 hijackers and plotters.
Two years before the airliner attacks, the Saudi Embassy paid for two Saudi nationals, living undercover in the US as students, to fly from Phoenix to Washington “in a dry run for the 9/11 attacks,” alleges the amended complaint filed on behalf of the families of some 1,400 victims who died in the terrorist attacks 16 years ago.
The court filing provides new details that paint “a pattern of both financial and operational support” for the 9/11 conspiracy from official Saudi sources, lawyers for the plaintiffs say. In fact, the Saudi government may have been involved in underwriting the attacks from the earliest stages — including testing cockpit security.
“We’ve long asserted that there were longstanding and close relationships between al Qaeda and the religious components of the Saudi government,” said Sean Carter, the lead attorney for the 9/11 plaintiffs. “This is further evidence of that.”
Lawyers representing Saudi Arabia last month filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which may finally be headed toward trial now that Congress has cleared diplomatic-immunity hurdles. A Manhattan federal judge has asked the 9/11 plaintiffs, represented by lead law firm Cozen O’Connor, to respond to the motion by November.
Citing FBI documents, the complaint alleges that the Saudi students — Mohammed al-Qudhaeein and Hamdan al-Shalawi — were in fact members of “the Kingdom’s network of agents in the US,” and participated in the terrorist conspiracy.
They had trained at al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan at the same time some of the hijackers were there. And while living in Arizona, they had regular contacts with a Saudi hijacker pilot and a senior al Qaeda leader from Saudi now incarcerated at Gitmo. At least one tried to re-enter the US a month before the attacks as a possible muscle hijacker but was denied admission because he appeared on a terrorist watch list.
Qudhaeein and Shalawi both worked for and received money from the Saudi government, with Qudhaeein employed at the Ministry of Islamic Affairs. Shalawi was also “a longtime employee of the Saudi government.” The pair were in “frequent contact” with Saudi officials while in the US, according to the filings.
During a November 1999 America West flight to Washington, Qudhaeein and Shalawi are reported to have tried multiple times to gain access to the cockpit of the plane in an attempt to test flight-deck security in advance of the hijackings.
‘The dry run reveals more of the fingerprints of the Saudi government.’
– Kristen Breitweiser
“After they boarded the plane in Phoenix, they began asking the flight attendants technical questions about the flight that the flight attendants found suspicious,” according to a summary of the FBI case files.
“When the plane was in flight, al-Qudhaeein asked where the bathroom was; one of the flight attendants pointed him to the back of the plane,” it added. “Nevertheless, al-Qudhaeein went to the front of the plane and attempted on two occasions to enter the cockpit.”
The pilots were so spooked by the Saudi passengers and their aggressive behavior that they made an emergency landing in Ohio. On the ground there, police handcuffed them and took them into custody. Though the FBI later questioned them, it decided not to pursue prosecution.
But after the FBI discovered that a suspect in a counterterrorism investigation in Phoenix was driving Shalawi’s car, the bureau opened a counterterrorism case on Shalawi. Then, in November 2000, the FBI received reporting that Shalawi trained at terrorist camps in Afghanistan and had received explosives training to perform attacks on American targets. The bureau also suspected Qudhaeein was a Saudi intelligence agent, based on his frequent contact with Saudi officials.
More, investigators learned that the two Saudis traveled to Washington to attend a symposium hosted by the Saudi Embassy in collaboration with the Institute for Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America, which was chaired by the Saudi ambassador. Before being shut down for terrorist ties, IIASA employed the late al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki as a lecturer. Awlaki ministered to some of the hijackers and helped them obtain housing and IDs.
The FBI also confirmed that Qudhaeein’s and Shalawi’s airline tickets for the pre-9/11 dry run were paid for by the Saudi Embassy.
“The dry run reveals more of the fingerprints of the Saudi government,” said Kristen Breitweiser, one of the New York plaintiffs, whose husband perished at the World Trade Center.
“These guys were Saudi government employees for years and were paid by the Saudi government,” she added. “In fact, the Saudi Embassy paid for their plane tickets for the dry run.”
After the Nov. 19, 1999, incident — which took place less than two months before the first hijackers entered the US — both Saudi men held posts as Saudi government employees at the Imam Muhammad Ibn Saudi Islamic University, the parent of IIASA — “a further indication of their longstanding ties to the Saudi government,” the 9/11 complaint states.
Carter said in an interview that the allegations that the Saudi Embassy sponsored a pre-9/11 dry run — along with charges of other Saudi involvement in the 9/11 plot, from California to Florida — are based on “nearly 5,000 pages of evidence submitted of record and incorporated by reference into the complaint.”
They include “every FBI report that we have been able to obtain,” though hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents related to Saudi terror funding remain secret.
Attempts to reach lawyers representing the Saudi government by phone and email were unsuccessful. However, in last month’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, they argued that the plaintiffs cannot prove the kingdom or its employees directly supported the hijackers.
Category: Society, Texas|Comments Off on NFL 2021 Season: That Was Fast
The 2021 NFL season lasted exactly 00:17 seconds for me after the announcer said they were devoted to “social justice causes” and played the “not” national anthem.
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