Recent content by Winthrop

So it will be like automobile fuel where I have to pay extra for ethanol free gas so that I can get 30% better mileage.

Kinda cool that these things still work, but it does seem risky. I remember as a child being on a scheduled DC-3 flight and being a bit surprised by that. Though I guess without pressurization these airframe last longer.

So perhaps I am naive, but what surprised me most here was that a DC-4 was still working: Fairbanks-area neighborhood shaken by DC-4 Crash

I am familiar with that aviation YouTube channel and it has some good content. However, given the region where the jet went down and the bad command and control of some of their militaries it seems possible that the facts are just not convenient. Granted I am wearing a "tin foil hat" here, but I...

Pilot committing mass homicide does seem the most likely, but an errant missile is also one thing people seemed to ignore.

It is sad that the Babylon Bee is now a serious paper.

Ah, I am clearly traded, I was thinking it was the door to the exterior.

T CLOSE 4:00 PM EDT 03/15/24 $182.53USD 1.380.76% AFTER HOURS 7:59 PM EDT 03/15/24 $180.09-2.44-1.34% AFTER HOURS VOL 774,900 Volume10,800,678 65 Day Avg Vol9,773,618 1 Day Range180.91 - 184.18 52 Week Range176.25 - 267.54(10/25/23 - 12/21/23) I am not sure the the sell off fro their high...

I seem to recall some basic diagrams about air pressure at different altitudes.

I am guessing he never read any of the books otherwise he would have noted the pressure differential would make opening the door virtually impossible.

Why would you short their stock? I am sure the federal government will bail them out. They just need a little "breathing room" to compete with the big baddies at Airbus. Plus, Boeing's Defense, Space and Security divisions are the real money makers, not commercial aircraft sales. Boeing is in...

Yeah, we were once prepared for this. And had this happened the names Armstrong and Aldrin would still have been ingrained in every Gen X school kid as much as Washington and Lincoln. Though NASA has always had very conservative estimates for what spacecraft would accomplish. Granted I doubt...

So this has been going on for some time, but does seem to be getting more attention. As usual the 121 operators want to sue and regulate completion out rather than actually compete: Airlines Want to Stop ‘Travel Hack’ JSX From Luring Rich Flyers Away

The difficult thing is that I am just not sure where we are on whether rocketry is an art or a science. We lambast the Boeing 737 Max for a failure rate which would have made it by far and away the most reliable bomber in WW2. Though if you think about it, the Space Shuttle had a 2.8% fatality...

. . . and latest crash: https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/spacex-hoping-launch-starship-farther-third-test-flight-2024-03-14/ So to me as a casual observer this seems bad, but some aver this is par for the course.