That sounds about right, based on the shady stuff we’re hearing about.   A hotel key card . . . good lord.

Okay, that’s worse. I haven’t done chemistry since college, but unlabeled bottles are SCARY.

And would “they” not be the appropriate pronoun for the GOP, considering that there are a plurality of them in Congress? They have an extremely tiny majority in the House, which is why they’re able to be pigheaded obstructionists, blocking even bills they introduced themselves for completely petty reasons.

It does happen a lot, but what this article inexplicably failed to mention is that the pilot remarked that he lost instruments at the same moment.  It’s possible it was indeed turbulence.  As you say, it’s definitely happened before.  But it would be a remarkable coincidence.

787 does not have MCAS.

It is poor writing. It’s probably true, but it’s poor writing, I agree. It could be far better supported by pointing out that the pilot himself commented that he lost instruments at the same moment, and pointing out that there’s no sign that they experienced any turbulence (although with instruments being out, that…

Oh yeah. Manufacturing comes over to engineering labs and has an absolute cow sometimes when they see what goes on. :-D

33 out of 89 is not only bad, it is extremely bad. For a company as mature as Boeing, it should be a humiliating result.

Eh, it’s easy to think of it that way, but it’s more about proximity to their pet politicians.....

Yeah, I’m reading it as “Washington, DC-based” at this point.  Arlington’s basically a suburb of DC, really.

Part of me is starting to like Delta more, because of the general age of its fleet.  The older Boeings seem to be safer than the newer ones.

As long as it’s on the drawing/spec/mod list/process/etc., totally fine. If not, that’s a problem.

Well, let’s be a little more specific here before jumping on the clickbait train. Boeing is in a lot of trouble right now, and if you want to be serious, I think you’d do a lot better to point at the damning FAA report that just came out showing that out of 89 internal Boeing audits, 33 were failed and the company…

That was what it was originally intended for, but after Paul Allen’s death, the funding evaporated. Air launch has pretty much dead-ended at this point. Pegasus is still officially available, but Virgin Orbit has closed up shop. (Stratolaunch bought Cosmic Girl, their carrier aircraft.) For a while, Stratolaunch had a…

“I guess I’ll have to haul up to northern Michigan or Minnesota (where these folks are) or something to make it happen.”

You’re referring to the abomination that is Star Trek V? That’s either Pioneer 10 or Pioneer 11 that gets blown up.

This.  The most essential safety hazard of these vehicles is simply their sheer mass.

“Wankpanzer” is absolutely my favorite new word of the day.

I have serious concerns about TikTok. At the same time, this ban makes me even more concerned. It’s a terrible idea. I predict it will ultimately be struck down on Constitutional grounds — if not free speech, then restraint of trade. It’s very uncomfortable to me that a Congress which has been unable to manage to do…

Unable. Orbits are not what people think. When you go to space, you’re not really going to a location. You’re going to a *trajectory*. Things in orbit are constantly moving at very high speed; getting them to be somewhere else means getting them to move differently, and that means we need to think about Newton’s Laws…