Kiwirob wrote:The cruise ship museum along with the new tower would put OKC on the world map.
‘America’ being a few idiots on Capitol Hill who don’t even have the support of most of their own party, you do understand that? After all this, how can ANYONE trust the USA to help their allies? Why should Japan or Taiwan or Israel or any other partner trust anything the USA says, when China or Ir...
Jump to post23 years apparantly, though I am doubtfull if that's actually true. I remember having already been a regular well before 9/11. Perhaps that was only lurking, or another account? I also miss the ease of quoting and the airport and airline codes that would display if you put your mouse over them (ment...
Jump to postWith Germany committing a 3rd Patriot battery for Ukraine, they have now dedicated 15 times as large of a proportion of their Patriot force as the United States has. Any word on how many missiles are included in this support package? I thought they were running low on missiles, what good is a patri...
Jump to postUS supplies Norway with 22 F-16's as they are converting to F-35 The US is not providing 22 F-16s to Norway. They have merely provided permission for Norway to transfer 22 of their F-16s to Ukraine. At least 12 of them are airworthy. The remainder are likely for spares only. The permission also cov...
Jump to postNow who will continue the search for the murderer of his ex wife?
Jump to postfor just $1,700,000.00 you can get a cozy starter home thats just 384 yes 384 square feet (about the size of a small hotel room) You must go to some very interesting hotels if you think 384 square feet is a small hotel room. That house looks a bit small but still livable if you don’t have children....
Jump to postartflyer wrote:The treaty was suspended not only by Poland but in a concerted action by all NATO members, bound by this treaty. See below a note from what I guess is your government.
A brand new A320neo (OE-LZQ) from Austrian collided with a jetbridge at VIE... the right elevator broke off, and the right sharklet doesn't look particularly good either... https://x.com/aviationbrk/status/1776948441744068665 ?!?! Can you imagine the force necessary to break off an elevator? Or has...
Jump to postThe reason for Max Verstappen's DNF at Australia was due to a dumb mistake made by one of the engineers. Someone did not properly secure something. Although the article does not specify which component(s) had not been secured, the likely culprit is the brake caliper. Procedures have been changed to ...
Jump to postAnd the only major Country even contemplating sending their own troops to the battelfied are the French. Poland is also preparing themselves for all-out war. They just try to hide their plans. Quite literally actually, they announced their unilateral suspension of the treaty on conventional armed f...
Jump to post889091 wrote:I think even Putin would be affraid to take on Scientology, their lawyers are no joke! Jump to postTaking bets that they're going accuse him of being a Scientologist next...
I would have thought the bridge was built to withstand collisions up to a certain force, but there's a good chance the ship was going faster than the bridge was designed to withstand. The bridge was 50odd years old. Even if the bridge were designed to withstand a collision of the largest ship of th...
Jump to postThe effects of the deliberate sabotage by a few clowns in Washington; https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/03/25/russias-glide-bombs-are-miracle-weapons-and-ukraine-is-still-months-away-from-fighting-back-with-f-16s/?ss=aerospace-defense I am honestly surprised at how some of these clowns hav...
Jump to postWhats really inappropriate is that the jokes on X that various companies were jumping on the bandwagon while everyone knew she was recovering from surgery. It's not anyone on X's fault that the royals' PR firm is a clown car doing amateur hour standup. They could have cleared this up quickly and su...
Jump to postHMS Gotland spent two years doing exercises with a US navy carrier group outside San Diego 20 years ago. It didn't have any problems sneaking through the CVG's defences and "sinking" the USS Ronald Reagan. The Dutch submarines have also sunk CVN’s on more than one training. It seems diese...
Jump to postThere is also investment that does not give return directly but that helps to avoid a crisis and also helps to contain a "fire" if one actually shows up. It is not sexy for the shareholder as it costs and is not visible until problems occur, but it helps to weather the storm. It's a bit l...
Jump to postPhosphorus wrote:Mykolayiv yards would get busy building aircraft carriers
kalvado wrote:While this is somewhat true, it was said more than once that there were no technology advances that would justify a new narrowbody.
It reminds me a bit of how Speer said after WW2 that indeed the Allied efforts were impactful but not fatal because the Allies kept changing their strategy. He said if they had just concentrated on oil (including synthetics) the war would have ended earlier. The germans made pretty much the same mi...
Jump to postRelax, its not even close to leaving bolts off. I see the big picture that QA and QC need a serious overhaul at Boeing and Spirt (as well as other things), but sensationalism isn't helping the issue. Again, not knowing the procedure, they could have done it completely correct minus the addition of ...
Jump to postI'm not sure if it's a deliberate effort to let Russia win or simply accepting collateral damage as long as it gives them an upper hand in domestic politics. One more theory. Darth Putin has dirt on the leadership of the Republican party. bt after everything that’s already come out about trump over...
Jump to postReddit chatter suggests that this is proof Max has escape clauses in his contract. Who knows? Various Dutch sources over the past weeks have mentioned there are several clauses, including based on performance (is the car good). One interesting clause is Max can leave if Marko leaves. It is not clea...
Jump to postThe commander of the Russian black sea fleet, admiral Nikolai Evmenov, has resigned. Effective immediately his command has been taken over by admiral Alexander Moiseev. He was the commander of the Russian northern fleet. I guess loosing a quarter of your fleet to a nation without a navy does not loo...
Jump to postApparently 4% of the bonus was for meeting metrics around a safety goal and in 2023 Wow, a full 4% of the bonus is based on safety!? That will certainly motivate the execs to favour safety over finance. /s That percentage should be 40%, with 20% to customer satisfaction, 20% to staff satisfaction a...
Jump to postVintage wrote:IMO new money should be spent on drones, drones, and more drones.
Macron's comments are aimed at all "supporters" of Ukraine, but in particular at Germany and Scholz, who has clearly still not taken the situation seriously enough, Yet, Germany has thus far provided more and more advanced weaponry to Ukraine than France. At least publicly, who knows what...
Jump to postThe video's regional block should now be gone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oCilY4szc
USAirKid wrote:Over the top commentary is constitutionally protected. He’s done good episodes on that as well.
At the end of the day it's just comedy. I feel like people these days take comedy too seriously. It may be comedy, but to say it is just comedy is underselling it. Serious points were raised. It’s just a shame that serious news stations hardly ever go for a deep dive. And that’s nothing new either....
Jump to postAbout 10 years years ago I was at downtown manhattan heliport, happily snapping pictures of the helicopters flying in an out. After half an hour or so one of their sales reps came by asking if I was interested. I said I found it to be a bit too pricy. Half an hour later he comes back telling me he h...
Jump to postmxaxai wrote:I believe that other, more recent, models would be more efficient in terms of cost and capability.
With an absolutely overwhelming GDP advantage, how on earth are we in a situation where a comparatively tiny economy is winning against a country backed by a group of comparatively enormous economies? Because Russia has lower costs. Their equipment is less capable, but generally cheaper, than the w...
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:Not happening and the 124 isn’t half the plane a C-5M is.
Do you think the ship can be turned though? Boeing will be fine. They are in the luxury position of operating in a duopoly, with a competitor that can not scale up quick enough to take over even a fraction of Boeing’s customers. Had this happened in any other industry, Boeing would have been toast....
Jump to postI don't think this is a good way to put it, since it plays into Russian propaganda about the West wanting to destroy Russia, allowing them to portray the Ukraine War as a fight for Russian survival, justifying further increasing the shift of more and more Russian resources toward the war. We are no...
Jump to postBraybuddy wrote:These would help in the short term:
https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/statu ... 5665862888
Walking is bad for you in Siberia, apparently: " "The inmate A.A.Navalny felt bad after a walk and almost immediately lost consciousness at the correctional colony No. 3 on Feb. 16," Russia's prison service said." https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/02/16/alexei-navalny-dies-in-...
Jump to postIFlyOff wrote:Icahn is still alive?? I thought he was 80 years old some 40 years ago. Who knew!
There appears to be a fire in a workshop at the MiG factory.
For now it looks to be a small fire.
https://twitter.com/BlogUkraine/status/ ... 0891541836
Boeing could announce that it invented carbon neutral flight tomorrow and there would be a subset of people who would find something to complain about. Maybe if they had done less announcing and more action, people would take their announcements seriously. If your every statement has to include “we...
Jump to postYes, a high winged design like the TTBW typically leads to a T tailed airliner, and getting and modifying a T tailed airliner is easier than modifying any 737 or creating a costly prototype that will most likely not look like the production airliner. I suppose the 727 tail drawings should be around...
Jump to postThe netherlands has increased their commitment for F-16 deliveries to Ukraine: six more F-16s will be added on top of the 18 promised earlier. These six were originally earmarked to be sold to Draken International, but that is now off the table. https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/2070636693/live-defens...
Jump to postTangoandCash wrote:But usually Ferrari are running late ... this is two months early! Jump to postPart of me wonders if this is an April Fools joke and Ferrari has messed up the timing (like they do strategy, pit stops, tires, everything else)
They are paranoid (and it seems with generally poor intel), enough to think F-16's are in theater now or very soon. That story seems unlikely. If Russia really believes there are F-16s, or their arrival is imminent, then they would be crazy to put the A-50 this close to the frontline. The F-16 is t...
Jump to postCould this not simply be solved by a couple of lines in the flight computer? If EAI is on for more then x seconds, turn it off. Possibly link it to the weather computer or radar, so EAI can stay on longer if conditions allow it. Yes, Boeing has messed up royally with their MCAS coding, but that does...
Jump to postWhen existing products, have acquired a *reputation*, especially one that is in its 4th gen iteration, the best bet might be to do a clean-sheet design. Start on a new clean slate! I am not sure a clean-sheet design would solve Boeing’s issues. It might in fact lead to more problems. Take the Alask...
Jump to postI was thinking the same! How hard would it be to widen the E195 fuselage from 4 abreast to 5 or even 6 abreast? There’d probably be a range penalty, but not everyone needs that long range anyway. Possibly stretch it ... all options are on the table ... Yes, sounds like a trivial task and can be don...
Jump to postcrjflyboy wrote:Meanwhile ... EMBRAER is sitting on the sidelines salivating ...