THE big issue with the Ethiopian crash (#2) is that they let the speed get completely out of control - the throttles were at takeoff power from the beginning of the takeoff roll until they hit the ground. When all hell is breaking loose, probably a great to stop accelerating... It is especially egregious because those…

That’s a silly, childish, and ignorant comment. This guy was leading the company as a whole, but was not the man responsible for the airplane itself, or, from a more defined standpoint, responsible for the systems that led to the airplane failures. If anything, point your emotions and anger toward the project manager,…

Non-Boeing factors in the first crash is a huge understatement. The aircraft should have been grounded after the previous flight. IIRC, 33 pages of the aircraft’s logbook are missing, the AOA sensor was replaced, and installed 21 degrees off, leading to the suspension of certification of the maintenance company, and…

The SLS is delayed and over budget, but since the government is paying for all of that, it doesn’t really matter, as far as they or their stockholders are concerned.

There will never be a clean-sheet replacement for the 737, at least the smaller versions of it. Boeing’s customers don’t WANT that. If they wanted that, they would have orders in for those NEOs. They want a more-efficient version of the airplane they already own and love, and that thier pilots are already trained to…

Boeing has taken orders for over 5,000 MAX jets to date, that is not a stop-gap, that was their answer to the NEO. Period.

Yes the position of the engines is a concern in how the plane feels to the pilots, but there’s nothing mechanically wrong with the plane. The problem is with the software which was designed to make it feel like an older 737. It can fly just fine without the software.

In the Lion Air crash the trim switches on the yokes worked, 100%, right to the end, but the pilots stopped using them, apparently coinciding with when command was handed from the Pilot in Command to the Second in Command. It seemed like the SIC noted that the trim wheel stopped moving when the switch was pushed but…

Can everyone just flag this motherfucker please. Tomato I mean.

You are a bad take!

There’s no point trying to get through to the Manual4Lyfe crowd. It’s still fun arguing with them.

I would say they are the MAGA’s of the automotive world.

the entire back half of the e46 rips the fuck out unless you drill holes in your trunk floor and shoot in some foam goop.

Me too. I’m agreeing with you! Comp pack (ZCP) is phenomenal. :)

They say that “taking peoples’ guns away” will cause some kind of armed uprising and therefore it is implied that the continued massacre of children is a necessary cost of our society’s continued unity. But this raises a question: is a society whose continued existence demands the routine massacre of children ever…

Old pipes, mostly lead in the factory that refills their watercooler bottles with tap.

DON’T YOU PUT THAT EVIL ON US.

Promote Tom Cable as rumored so I can watch Seahawks twitter melt down. I need that. Give it to me.

And yet Tom Cable still stands.

This means nothing as long as Tom Cable is still here.