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Ok, yeah whatever, I prefer that to a prostate exam. I am sure by scanning my passport, and they are nominally a 5-eyes country, they can see my life. They see my ticket how I paid my visa information etc. So once again, more efficient than the prostate exam.

One recent commercial flight I was on was fairly open. (see below) The odd thing here is the dearth of news. I think there might be some embarrassing facet to this like she was working for the TSA

Was just on a French ship, where one ship's officer explained that they could drink while standing watch (he was on the bridge drinking), but their BAC could not exceed .25, I tripled check that is .25 so more than three times .08. Not sure how that translates over to their airline.

Never is a strong word, but at a loss here, have to agree "never" is accurate

Peter were you with me when that kid bounced the Citation 680 at PHX? Sure they have the time, but it's hard for me to transition between my two cars let alone different aircraft.

I had the misfortune to go through New Zealand's version of the TSA recently. My carry-on drew the ire of their inspectors. What was interesting about the encounter is that they did not rescan or open my bag, but only asked me how I had enjoyed my stay in New Zealand and then whether I was...

As much as I hate saying it, I think it could be argued that the fatalities from highjacking are down. However, I am not sure that matters. These numbers were so low prior to 2001 that improving the floor wax at airports to have greater traction knit have saved more lives from decreasing lethal...

Not sure if there are any 135 pilots here, but from what I can tell in the cheap seats, one issue is that outside of the big fractional companies, many 135 pilots are flying different types all the time and that causes confusion.

I will address the second part of this first, because at least that is a decent point. I will concede that highjacking are down and that something happened in 2001 to change that. I have not crunched the numbers, but my "gut feeling" is that the decrease is statistically significant, but I would...

The story seems to omit how she was caught which is interesting. It implied the charade was noticed at some point after takeoff and it is notable that they obviously did not think there was any security concern or they would have diverted the aircraft away from LAX! With some level of...

Wonder if it is designed to radiate heat at any angle

Too bad, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group used to be ok, like Die Zeit had a mild left institutional bias, but still ok, e.g. like the Economist. O tempora, o mores

Granted my input might be worth what you are paying me for it here, but perhaps some kind of traction tape carefully wrapped around them?

Saw these recently when I was in NZ on my way to Antarctica. Seems like a very odd choice as Norway does have C-130s fitted for ice runways in their own Air Force inventory.

Or is this simply the decline of all print media and perhaps the fact that your perception of science may have changed with a few years of post secondary education? At least they managed not to make the article political.

So in an odd twist I was in town and there was a group of Challenger pilots talking at the local Juicery about this crash who were convinced it was pilot error and bad placement of engine controls causing both engines to flame out by mistake. (I of course suggested they comment here, so...

So I looked it up, N672DL is 32 year old jet which was delivered by Boeing when George H.W. Bush was president. This seems more like an issue with Delta using aged aircraft to save money and engaging in substandard maintenance. I would actually posit a different argument that the Boeing 757...

Oldest 757s in Service Not sure this is an indictment of the 757. Delta's 757 fleet has an average age of like 30 years.