They were originally intended to be able to have both sides open, which would have helped with the airflow (but you’d need something to make sure nobody fell off the back of the stage if used that way).

That man was living one of my dreams, although I wouldn’t want it walled in. But if I had one I’d certainly want to spend many hours just taking in the beauty of it.

Nope, they don’t get a pass. A fire in a plane can soon become more than an inconvenience, with noxious gases emitted, and leaving passengers behind you stuck while you try to get your stuff to take with you is a totally selfish act.

He even called out his own sister for receiving benefits in a letter to a newspaper, rather than helping her. He’s a hypocritical beneficiary of affirmative action who pulled the rug out from under his own people in so many ways. He’s disgusting.

You missed the dumbest part of the dialogue: “Who said anything about safe?” Give me a break!

They’re adopting IndyCar’s Push to Pass but of course they don’t want to call it that. I wonder if they’ll have a similar system with a certain amount of time they can use it each race?

Young man yells at cloud.

Young man yells at cloud.

So because ships were steered from the right and boarded from the left they adopted the same approach for planes, even though, unlike with ships, the captain of a plane sits on the left.

You’d be even more hungry and dehydrated on long flights if there wasn’t a door on the right as well.

I was a little surprised recently to see the level of disdain for side pipes on a late ‘60's Mustang pictured in a car enthusiasts’ Facebook group, that’s mostly populated by boomers. I remember when I was a kid around then the modded cars featured almost always seemed cooler if they had side pipes on them. It’s rare…

He was saying that it delivered a credible horsepower output for its displacement - unlike the choked malaise era offerings.

I don’t watch F1 to see cars break down, or for crashes. And as others have mentioned there were cars that had problems they had to manage, including both Ferrari and Mercedes entries. Plus it’s a track that’s never suited McLaren, and has a more abrasive surface than others making tyre management and strategy/pit…

Sainz had the same issue as Leclerc but either it wasn’t as bad for him or he managed it better.

There really wasn’t much point in swapping back although Daniel said if he’d been asked to do so he wouldn’t have had a problem. It’s not surprising that the team didn’t ask him to do so though, given there was no difference for the team; there were no points for either driver; that Yuki had a tantrum on the radio and…

Your quote, about the Max 9, says “Initial findings have led federal regulators to believe that design and quality control issues at Boeing and its supplier Spirit AeroSystems caused the dramatic incident” leads to a link that mentions “production and quality control issues”. That’s a fundamental difference. The 737…

From what I’ve read Spirit AeroSystems manufactures the plug doors in Kansas then ships them to the Spirit AeroSystems facility in Washington where they are installed on the aircraft. Why would Boeing then need to remove them?

If it happened at cruise altitude it likely wouldn’t matter which seat you were in, because according to the NTSB chair the resulting explosion may bring the whole plane down.

The NTSB chair said “At cruise altitude we could have lost the aircraft. At that point the pressure differential is so great that the explosion would have been extremely violent, extremely.”

That’s more like the story of the Carnival cruise ship Costa Concordia in Italy. Although instead of trying to do a J-turn the captain tried to show how close he could get to the island.