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Ah, yes, from the state that brought us this official website: https://stopchemtrails.com/

People also choose to lie to the FAA.

Maybe just tax carbon emissions?

People focus on the prestige and luxury aspects of private jets, but security and schedule flexibility are often far more important.

They’re talking about divesting generally.

“As we divest from policing…” They lost me right there.

“The other signatories, a majority of whom were engineers, declined to publicly disclose their names because they did not want to jeopardize employment at Blue Origin or harm their…

Many of those Capitol Theatre videos are excellent. Talking Heads played there 3 days earlier: https://youtu.be/BFvgWguaC9g

It’s not as simple as “the driver can take over if they need to.” In many cases it takes a human too long to recognize the system doing something dangerous and to intervene. This i…

I don’t think RVs are a good indicator. My wife and I just bought a 32’ Class A motorhome to travel around the country in the fall, since I’m forced to work remotely and the kids w…

Fellow Googler here. You need a new team.

Zuck can do whatever he thinks is “fair” but ultimately he has to deal with the realities of the labor market, which will change if remote works really catches on.

I’m waiting for this to be framed as a racial equity issue. Are they really going to pay people in Detroit and Atlanta less than people in San Francisco and Seattle for the same jo…

I have an RV-10, and it’s amazing. I can take 4 adults at 160kts burning 10gph, it’s easy to handle for a high performance airplane, and it’s such a simple design that maintenance …

G-Strang! I took this class in the fall of 1999, and I remember thinking it was unusual that every lecture was being recorded. So cool to see it still having an impact 20+ years la…

I used to have XM weather. The data is generally better, and it works on the ground, but I couldn’t justify the $30/mo for the kind of flying I do. ADS-B weather is “good enough”.

You are mistaken https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/programs/adsb/pilot/#fisb

Regarding a bomb on board: “In the cabin, procedures are laid down for assessing the risks of moving the device and for moving the device to the LRBL at door 2R.” LRBL is “least ri…

In dollars, sure, but he’s already giving most of his money away, so it won’t really meaningfully impact him. For decades, Microsoft benefitted from there being no personal income …

This is exactly why I want one, and I’ve been close to ordering a Model 3 several times now. But it seems like each time, I hear a horror story from a friend with a Tesla: random s…

Vertical separation (based on altimeters) is way more precise than horizontal separation (based on radar, VHF navigation, GPS, eyeballs, etc).

FWIW, the dangerous part of wake turbulence is from the wing vortices, not the engines.

Regardless of what’s technically correct, I see “nm” way more often than “NM” in aviation contexts.