Of course the Soviets made sure successful achievements were reported. But you’ll notice that there is no coverage of the significant problems Leonov encountered on his spacewalk. 

Well, one reason they weren’t celebrated was that they weren’t reported at all. The Soviets didn’t announce their launches and certainly didn’t make known problems that happened with them. 

Where have I seen this before? Oh. Yeah.

Affirmed.

This raises a question I had. Was the 1986 USSR that threadbare? everything here is old and decrepit, like they hadn’t painted since Stalin croaked.

Hey, I like my 500 Abarth.

Insane. Even a limited nuclear exchange—say in the 20s to low 100s of warheads—would produce calamitous cooling, crop losses and starvation. And there isn’t a scenario where Russia walks away from an exchange with US/NATO without getting devastated. 

Ask and ye shall receive. Mine is a ‘13 Fiat 500 Abarth with a Thule rack setup with 42" crossbars. Works great! The only trick is I have carbon fibre paddles that don’t split. So those end up running the length of the car between the front seats. 

Dunn has been amazing all tournament. 

This is so on the nose, it’s scary.

I understand that completely. Few planes are as proven as the 737. But I was actually talking about the impact these incidents would or should have had on the 737 “brand.”

I agree with all of this. MCAS was a ticking time bomb that plunged crews into chaos when they could least afford it—soon after takeoff when they were close to the ground and heavy with fuel. Its activation was absolutely the primary cause of these crashes. 

Right, but runaway trim and the weird, intermittent behavior of MCAS (which wasn’t even disclosed until Lion Air) are not the same. For instance, the runaway trim checklist calls for cutting out the electric trim motors if the runaway trim condition continues after applying electric trim and turning off the autopilot.…

Absolutely Boeing was pressed by American and Southwest into a short-cycle solution to combat the Airbus 320neo. But that didn’t happen in a vacuum. The ambitious 787 project monopolized Boeing’s attention and resources and essentially pushed development of a clean sheet, single-aisle jetliner off the table. So when…

Just one of the many, many failures in the long chain of failure that was the 737 MAX development. Boeing painted itself into an untenable corner with its plan to quickly retrofit a plane with larger engines, despite clear mechanical limitations. 

I believe the Dc-10 still holds the record. 273 died at Chicago, 335 near Paris, and 111 at Sioux City.

And another MCAS incident won’t happen because the software won’t allow it. There’s no more looping logic that keeps pointing the damn nose down despite countervailing pilot inputs. And there’s no longer a single point of failure at the AOA sensor that made something as common as icing or a bird strike turn into a…

I was born to rub you... but you were born to rub me first.

I should have added an /s to that. I was being sarcastic about Khomyuk’s blueprints. She was absolutely swooping in to save the day.