Some of it is bullshit (marketing). Some of it is not.

It depends on how you define “hide”. I assume in this context it is “hide things that may hurt the company from the company”. In that case this is very much what corporations are becoming today. More drug testing. More background checks. More reviews of private financial data.

That bit was hilarious.

The show explains the “religion and heaven” thing in the first few minutes, including making a pretty funny joke about it.

The inability to curse.

A capsule would not necessarily have to beat the flame front. The vessel would be quite sturdy, so “some” flame would be fine.

A lot of it has to do with the very bespoke nature of spaceflight. Cars are built in the millions. Airliners are built in the hundreds, and sometimes thousands. Rockets are build in the dozens. There simply isn’t a big enough body of statistics for most possible failures and glitches to have been experienced.

If there had been astronauts at the top of the stack, the launch escape system would most probably have allowed them to escape.

Indeed. I also love my job and I am annoyed when I have to stay home sick.

Indeed. The 777 competitor was the 340, and the 340 never had a chance.

The current VC-25s (“AF1") are glass cockpit as well. It’s a heavily modified version of the -200 with lots of the improvements that made it into the -300 and -400.

True, but you’re more likely to be hit by a meteor, so I’ll take my chances. ;)

If engine technology advances at the same pace in the next 30 years as it has in the last, engines will be an order of magnitude more ridiculously reliable than they are now. Most airline pilots fly their entire careers without seeing an engine failure. Add to that the superb maintenance on the presidential planes...

“Far more capable” how? The 777 and 330 do not target the same market, as evidenced by the number of airlines that field both. Yes, the 777 flies further and carries more than the 330, but this makes it too heavy for missions where the 300 excels. The 330 is smaller and has shorter range, and thus has a much lower…

Agreed. On a side not, ironically nowadays dispatch reliability is better on twins since there are fewer parts that can break.

There’s no difference. A quad losing an engine can stay aloft as long as it has fuel. So can a twin losing an engine. However the quad will be able to fly higher on 3 engines than the twin on 1 engine.

The South China Morning Post had this gem this morning.

Good point.