Site ownership changed a little while ago, and some things are in flux right now. Most of the connectivity issues seem to be related to them tinkering under the hood while things evolve.
It happens from time to time.
I've been reading this thread, without any real good advice to add in. Sorry to hear of it Mark. That's really tough to figure out. Feels like the innocent are the imprisoned.
I get to read crash reports from both the military and NTSB rather often. The most common determining factor in most crashes is aircrew/pilot error. Generally speaking, the systems do what they are designed to do pretty consistently.
I'm not saying there aren't airframe or avionics issues -...
I haven't used it much, but I've been impressed with how fast stuff sells on Facebook marketplace. I've used Craigslist a couple of times too. But I don't think things moved as fast as they did with Facebook.
I've had the chance to meet a few guys from the Apollo missions, including Jim Lovell and a fella' by the name Otha "Skeet" Vaughan. Skeet was the scientist in charge of development of the lunar rover. I had a great talk with him about design and development one afternoon. Incredibly nice guy.
I had the '85 Chrysler Laser Turbo. It was a dog off the line, but once that turbo kicked in it was a jet. And curves were just dares in that car: man did it handle.
Two funny ones that I wish I still had were a '76 Pinto Rally and a '94 Escort.