I agree about the runway thing — a lot of people do confuse taxiways and runways, and this occurred on a taxiway. The CRJ was holding short of a runway, and the Airbus was on a taxiway.

Some of them for sure (e.g. the kids with Grimes), but apparently at minimum, his kids with his first wife were conceived in the normal manner. I think it’s a weird efficiency thing for him.

Plus, he has no intention whatsoever of actually going there until the plebes have finished their work of making it suitably livable first.  And that’s not me speculating cynically; he’s actually said that’s his plan.

Bingo.  It’s a variation on the “this woman just needs to bedded in order to become reasonable” line, only with his reproduction fetish thrown on top.

The weird part is he’s not an incel.  He’s fathered a large number of children, some with wives, some with girlfriends, some with subordinates.  And yet in spite of that, he STILL gives off some of the strongest incel vibes I’ve ever seen.

Low-speed is relative; if this was cars, it’d absolutely still be classed as a crash. The Airbus was likely traveling around 20 MPH. That’s a lot slower than its top speed, of course, but it’s still fast enough to do significant damage even in a Toyota Corolla.

The horizontal stabilizer and the vertical stabilizer have swapped functions......  Yikes!

Because it responded to ATC and belatedly began its turn, demonstrating it was just an idiot pilot who forgot he was supposed to follow the Potomac and not a terrorist. “Shoot first” is not actually the first choice, especially when this would result in a huge ball of flaming wreckage falling on our nation’s capitol…

Supposedly, any airline (including charter) filing plans to go into DCA has to provide evidence the pilots who’ll be operating the flight have done the official training for flying out of DCA. It’s apparently an online course. (I am not remotely a pilot, but this is what I’ve read in comment threads elsewhere from…

Well, it could be reassuring that the original problem didn’t happen again. It could be that this is a byproduct of whatver their workaround is. Seems more likely to me that it’s unrelated. Of course, failures can happen on any mission, and that’s why extra margin is always provided. If that was the only thing that…

Well, the ports aren’t proprietary; quite the opposite. It’s just that the IDAs are the only ones the crewed vehicles can use. Dragon originally used the CBMs. Today, only one visiting spacecraft can use the CBMs. (Well, two, if Japan ever flies another HTV.) The biggest drawback to the CBMs is that you cannot dock to…

Not exactly. Dragon 1.0 is a substantially different vehicle from the current Dragon vehicle. It has the same name and a similar shape, but SpaceX made huge changes for the Commercial Crew program. In the interest of saving cost, they decided to abandon the original cargo Dragon, and now are basically flying the cargo…

Excellent!  Make his behavior expensive enough that people think twice!

The DoD wouldn’t audit this, since it’s a civilian contract, but the GAO certainly could. That said, I would be surprised if they found anything reportable. Being expensive and doing a bad job aren’t the same as being fraudulent. Not that Boeing doesn’t have experience of the latter; the early 2000s were an . . .…

Starliner is ostensibly a candidate for crew access to the Orbital Reef station, but in all honesty, Orbital Reef is notional at best.  Given how expensive space stations are, I’ll believe it when it launches.

This doesn’t seem to be a problem of bad thruster design. It behaves just fine on test stands. It’s inside the doghouse that it overheats. So it’s a system-level issue, and that makes one question the quality of system-level testing.

FYI, “thrusters” is inaccurate. They only had one thruster fail to ignite, and none shut down prematurely this time.  Maybe this validates Boeing’s workaround to the overheating problem; maybe not. What’s interesting (and what your article failed to mention) is that this one is a different type of thruster than the…

They were awarded what they bid. That’s basically how it works in government contracting. It’s a lot like hiring a company to fix your roof or redo your kitchen; they put in a bid, and if you hire them, that’s how much they’re going to charge you for the work. If you get bids from two companies, you’ll get two…

Very early — that episode might even have been recorded before he was named CEO. (It was the same year, anyway.)

That needs to be improved to $100k/ton to build a self-sustaining city there, so the technology needs to be 10,000 times better.