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As far as weights go, the 707 and the 767-200s that hit the towers were fairly close in size, weight and fuel capacity and that is demonstrated by both towers surviving their impac…

One other compounding problem is that Delta's headquarters and main traffic patterns are on the east coast. Crowdstrike affected all the airlines at roughly the same time. This gav…

Funny you should mention WN. Delta's meltdown is the exact same scenario as Southwest. Crew scheduling is messed up, they don't have a way of tracking where employees are, if the e…

Have spent all my afternoon and all evening on a bridge trying to support flailing systems. Was supposed to be on a plane in 5 hours to start my vacation. Guaranteed it's not gonna…

This rollercoaster is not over yet. There's a crowdstrike issue causing windows machines/servers to brick globally and this industry is heavily windows dependent. It may or may not…

Looking at flightradar24, the only real upset I see is the turn over the southern Sierra Nevada range which is also ~55 minutes before arrival into OAK. Wonder if mountain waves pl…

This is extremely disingenuous. A dutch roll if identified and corrected is not structurally dangerous to an aircraft but it typically signifies something wrong with the control su…

Radar, planning software and routing have all gotten much, much better in the last decade. I believe even as late as 2007 or 2008, ATC was limited in the deviations it could do due…

I'm really at a loss on this news. All the employees at airlines in the US I know of have this drilled into them on a regular basis and it's just taken for granted that you report …

yes. It wasn't about cost at all. It's the same reason there are no cameras on the flight deck.

and the manufacturer can be held liable for lost revenue so even if the AC is grounded, you can get some $$$

The counter point to operating one type is on display here: if the regulator grounds the type, your whole airline is stuck. The only thing that eliminates/highlights issues is time…

It's weird to me that they unloaded anything in the hold for what should have been a refuel-and-go. Unless they're expecting you to be held on the ground for 3+ hours, they typical…

Every incident has to go into the carrier's safety reporting system which is then followed up by the FAA and/or NTSB. Even stuff as simple as a flight attendant feeling fatigued af…

In situations like this, it helps to remember that there is no disjoint between you and the pilots. They are in the same exact situation as you: if the fuel runs out, they crash th…

If you are in Japan, I would highly suggest you visit the Toyota museum in Nagoya. Toyota started as a loom manufacturer and the museum has a ton of working artifacts (I recall one…

How is making a rational judgement based upon low signal to noise ratios the sign of an immature world?

I guess this is part of the coverup https://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgad.nsf... and https://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgad.nsf... and https://…

Yeah. I did. I can apparently read and do simple math. The monthly numbers for 2020 are: 12,852 12,842 12,797 11,914 9,713 10,442 11,006 10,577 10,921 10,457 11,196 11,169 which yi…

*citation needed. Oh nevermind. US Field Production of Oil: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M... US production in 2022 is up 29% over 2021 (when Biden to…

that's probably true. I see 4 in the FAA registry. I don't see any MiG 25s but I see 5 MiG 29s in the FAA's US registry. Even the MiG 29 would get you marginally better Mach number…

Aside from the acres of hyperbole in this article: getting to the bottom of this article, this approach seems strange to me. Why bother with the F104? Feels like you'd want to maxi…

Generous like this table from your article? cost(2013$) riders(thousand) cost/rider O-Train (lrt) 27M$ 14 1901$ ... If you don't understand why your table is extremely flawed then …

If you ever get the chance, visit the memorial and museum in Hiroshima.

But less predictable in terms of overall performance due to all the shared components. It's also harder to separate two or more processes that 'grew up' together in the same contai…