The right wing has convinced its bootlicks to go to these media sources almost exclusively. 

“Growing volume meant accidental explosions were rising precipitously, not just on the world’s battlefields and in its mineshafts, but at the du Pont mill.”

That old canard again. Not that I’d shed a single tear at this point if they did just that, but no Arab nation is going to risk humiliation again going up against the most professional and well-equipped, and American-backed military.

Because the Israelis are smart enough to buy off politicians of both parties.

And it’s OUR MONEY.

In other words, it should look like a stock ‘40 Continental.

You again.

Exactly. As chief test pilot he had an intuitive understanding of the plane and MCAS at that point, but did not grasp that the customers did not.

Are you a pilot or an engineer? I think maybe you know the “how” but not the “why” which is not engineering-related but business-related.

This is corporate malfeasance. They sold a product that their customers did not understand because they withheld key information from them. Why? To increase sales and save money.

The FAA said to Boeing, “Naw, it’s OK; regulate yourselves we trust you.”

On every news story about this, and I’ve been following it closely for what, two years now, there’s always the old white guy who says, “Nothing wrong with the plane, it’s just Third World pilots can’t fly and their airlines don’t train.”

There you go.

He thought that WAS his job.

Some designers who are brilliant at one discipline fail miserably when they try to design a car.

Kinja fucks up embedded links on cut and paste text. Replace them with plain text.

That doesn’t surprise me a bit.

Folks Lickspittles that hate love, worship, kiss the flabby buttocks Trump hate venerate anything associated with Trump. They require no reason. They are not to be reasoned with.

Because it was designed by famed industrial designer Raymond Loewy, who certainly knew what he was doing. It looks understated and still fresh and modern.

It looks like a kid’s drawing. It’s not even original.