I think the first order of business is real-time streaming of FDR and CVR data. 70% of the globe is covered by water and crash after crash has been left uninvestigatable because of a lack of access to the FDR and CVR. We still don't know what happened to MS804 or MH370.
Jump to postThere had been a street fair on my street when I lived in Spanish Harlem. I was coming home from work at the hospital (I was a resident) and I was wearing my scrubs, white coat, and hospital ID. As I turned the corner onto my street, I was shoved backwards and almost knocked over by a NYPD officer w...
Jump to postIt was 11/28/19 and I was flying my 8-day-old son home to SFO from DTW (he is adopted). It was aboard a N851DN, a DL 739.
Jump to postPlease educate me. My understanding is exercise helps break up clots or prevent small clots from being the nucleus for growing larger clots. So I'm speaking specifically about the issues with the AdV vaccines. There seems to be an immune response that targets platelets themselves. This causes almos...
Jump to postStay active. A sedentary lifestyle can increase your blood clot risk, so make sure to get regular exercise. If you need to sit for a long time — like with working or traveling — try to take regular breaks so you can get up and move around. Lose weight if you’re overweight. Shedding excess weight ca...
Jump to postOpen Rotor. Ever higher turbofan BPR's are going to come with ever diminishing returns until they hit the point where the cowl drag (and weight) is so massive that further gains of any significance in subsonic engine efficiency can only come from open rotor. Noise, safety, and speed. I don't see ho...
Jump to postI like this graph for vaccine types. It visually shows the relative importance of each vaccine. Default is the USA: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-vaccine-doses-by-manufacturer USA This is 80.94 million doses of Moderna 92.36 million doses of Pfizer 5.38 million doses of J&J I will al...
Jump to postIn the US they're neck and neck but in Europe Moderna is still pretty rare. I was a little surprised you got Moderna. In the US it looks to be about 47% Moderna and 53% Pfizer between the two RNA vaccines. Only 4.5M doses of J&J have been given. (reference) But I had heard that Moderna is prima...
Jump to postAesma wrote:I have been given the Moderna 5G 1.0 jab, no ill effect after a couple of hours.
Didn't McD try to offer an MD-17, which was a civilian-configured C-17? They got no bites.
Jump to postThis is probably why AZ has more effective trials with an initial half dose and then a full dose booster. The mRNA booster would also produce the spike protein but the immune system wouldn't attack the mRNA and thus might have a much more effective immune response in theory. Yeah, although I think ...
Jump to postThen why did DL order the 777-200LR? At that time, DL was ordering more 772s. I believe that because the 77L was already on offer, Boeing basically offered them the 77L for the same price (the details are almost certainly hidden behind an NDA), which, Boeing probably hoped, would improve the resale...
Jump to postRe: Michigan, vaccine hesitancy in the African American community is a problem. Can you back that up? I've seen a lot of African-American patients clamoring for the vaccine. I think that a lot of the hesitancy got wiped out when they saw wealthy whites trying to angle their way into getting doses e...
Jump to postRe: Michigan, vaccine hesitancy in the African American community is a problem. Can you back that up? I've seen a lot of African-American patients clamoring for the vaccine. I think that a lot of the hesitancy got wiped out when they saw wealthy whites trying to angle their way into getting doses e...
Jump to postI'll believe in commercial hydrogen powered aircraft when I start to see the construction of massive amounts of 1000MW + nuclear power plants with matching hydrolysis plants reasonably close to the airports. I believe that Europe will need about 100 such plants, the USA about 200, and likely the re...
Jump to postCould I get a translation of what this short code means in terms of innoculation? Could this be a difference in national jabbing technique? Lightsaber An IM injection is intramuscular. You inject straight down (perpendicular) through the skin so that the needle goes into the muscle. SQ (sometimes a...
Jump to postdtw2hyd wrote:Denmark seems to think AZ's blood clot issue is related to IV vs IM, so they standardized on aspirate before inject.
It's a bit hard to tell, tbh, because the airport planning document always seems to be based on a "standard three-class layout" or the like, and this layout is anything but "standard". Most operator layouts will be heavier, at least for widebodies. Things like business class sea...
Jump to postSingle dose nasal vaccine in testing is apparently effective against COVID-19, with trials still underway https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/covid-19-nasal-vaccine I could hold out for something like that for a booster. A vaccine that produces an immune response in the lungs and nasal cavity cou...
Jump to postI want to just remind everybody that as gratifying as it is to see a child molester/trafficker get his due (they so often get away with it), keep in mind that a number of girls and young women were trafficked and sexually abused in order for Mr. Gaetz to get his due. Watching justice served is good ...
Jump to postvedatil4 wrote:
It's interesting how kilograms or metric tons (tonnes) are being used in a way to mimic pound-force. Both are mass while pounds is already a force. Thanks for sharing.
NIKV69 wrote:And just like that Jake Tapper didn't call him an "insurrectionist"
marcelh wrote:lightsaber wrote:If you get the virus and are unvaccinated, the risk of clots is very high.
Please define “very high”.
I would argue re-vaccinate as soon as possible with a more effective vaccine. But what to do this week? Stopping a vaccination campaign has long term hesitancy consequences, in my opinion. Lightsaber I think we are in violent agreement. I would take SinoVac over no vaccine at all, but I wouldn't re...
Jump to postInteresting, I have just over 15,000 hours on the 747 and found it to be just the opposite, especially when compared to other aircraft with much lower wing loading. The 400 wasn't as good as a 200 in turbulence, but it sure beat just about everything else. I think the point is that you can't genera...
Jump to postI find gender reveal parties to be just as tacky as anyone else, but this was caused by poor airmanship, not a gender reveal party.
Jump to postbennett123 wrote:Not believed be terrorism related.
lightsaber wrote:In my opinion, the vaccine doesn't seem to be working as well as it should in Chile.
There’s no way (I’ll regret saying this later lol) that FX would pay all that $$$ for such a low feedstock of 77Ls as other posters have stated. The MD-10 program would like to discuss this with you. :stirthepot: (I know there was already a DC-10 freighter conversion program and the MD-10 program w...
Jump to postIn my over 20 years on this site, I have been told that WN will never: 1) Fly anything other than one size of 737 2) Fly internationally 3) Fly to Hawaii 4) Vary from first-come-first-serve boarding order There are things that are central to WN's culture and identity, but one thing about running a b...
Jump to postGenerally, aircraft with higher wing loading will experience less jostling in the cabin (a rock thrown through the air is much less susceptible to turbulence than a leaf falling from a tree), and the seats further from the wing will move more with yaw/pitch. The worst throwing around I ever experien...
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Pfizer/BNT seem to be killing it. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pfizer-says-trials-suggest-covid-vaccine-works-against-south-african-n1262710 *Vaccine efficacy does not wane after six months (I predict it will last years). *Vaccine is extremely effective in 12-15 age group with this age group...
Jump to post1) Research the company. If you get the names of your interviewers in advance, Google them and look up their publications, professional accomplishments, other professional information. That can give you some questions to ask them about their professional portfolio and makes it look like you've done ...
Jump to postAccording yesterday German TV, there seems now to be more and more cases of very young patients with "Long Covid" symptoms. It seems that 15% of patients/children, who have had COVID-19 (also without symptoms) later on have some "Long Covid" symptoms now. It is not fully clarifi...
Jump to postIn an alternate universe, PA, CO, and EA all survived absorbed the others and UA, DL, AA, NW, US all got eaten. We'd have a US3 with different corporate branding, plus WN. The hubs might be sorted slightly differently. And not much else would be different.
Jump to postIn the last few months, a message that we have heard from public health authorities is that the vaccines may not prevent transmission of SARS-CoV-2. This has unfortunately been interpreted by many members of the public as meaning that the vaccines *DO* not prevent transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Today, ...
Jump to postIm curious as to what capabilities this will give the A350 going forward. Yeah, does sorta make you wonder "what's next" for aircraft that can already op 18hr+ flights (even without the -ULR modifications) already. 1) Doing so with lower fuel consumption and 2) Ability to perform ULH rout...
Jump to postIn the pictures, she appears to be listing to port. I wonder if that was intentional to get her off the bank or if there is another issue.
Jump to postAaron747 wrote:I get part of the outcry since a trivia show celebrates factual knowledge, but honestly, as a trivia player and Jeopardy! fan since childhood, I just don’t understand the level of rancor.
cjg225 wrote:.
Question: there is discussion of ships instead routing around the Cape of Good Hope. Does the average cargo/tanker have enough range to do this without refueling? What are the logistics of ensuring that there are adequate fuel depots along this route if not?
Jump to postUPlog wrote:24 out of 50 U.S. states seeing 7-day case rates rise.
The FDA EUA doesn't forfeit IP rights. We are talking about giving another country a mix of US and EU based J&J IP. J&J never agreed to that. What they did agree to is licensing the vaccine to many other providers. No, I am talking about spreading out the IP to other US-based manufacturers ...
Jump to postWhy do you insist on J&J giving up their IP when it is a competition between AZ, J&J, and SinoVac on why you single out J&J. Because neither SinoVac nor AZ have FDA EUA yet. If AZ does get an EUA (and I'm pivoting to be grudgingly in favor of an EUA, although I'm still not thrilled at t...
Jump to postGiving away IP destroys the business case for developing vaccines. 1) They already got paid and right now, nobody should be trying to get rich off of this. 2) Even if the production method is completely spilled out into open-source, it still takes a lot of expertise and resources to develop a new v...
Jump to post[quote="astuteman"] I never thought I'd see the day that a member of the medical profession would come on here and publicly argue the prolongation of suffering and death amongst the population. There's a first for everything I guess/quote] That's uncalled-for. So we vaccinate people with t...
Jump to postWhile I'm not criticizing the federal government's action here, Merkel's choice of words ("new pandemic" and "significantly deadlier") come across as a bit sensationalist and unscientific (assuming they're translated to English correctly). Have studies actually confirmed these U...
Jump to postlightsaber wrote:AstraZenica to publish more data within 48 hours to clear the application:
https://amp.ft.com/content/24090cf8-9b6 ... ca2450194d