I'll note that only the 2000C is being retired at the moment. The 2000-5 and 2000D (along with the remaining Bs) will soldier on for a while longer.
That silver livery looks really nice.
Reuters would also argue the public has a right to know about potential issues on airplanes they fly on. They may say that but, without context and a little bit of understanding of the complex underlying situation, this video does not inform a non aviation-literate public about anything. They mostl...
Jump to postGutted for Mick... As one of the Sky commenters aptly put it: What does this man have to do to score a point in F1? Alonso still impresses with what he can achieve with a mid-field car (and an dodgy engine apparently), in his forties and after 20 seasons. I find his penalty unfair. It seems all the ...
Jump to postI didn't say it was unfair. I said it was ineffecient. You can tell because I didn't write "it's unfair". Instead I wrote "it's ineffecient". Right in the part you qouted. Having the military decide the right amount that a space company ought to contribute to the local loan-out-...
Jump to postTo clarify, the FAA is mandated to conduct environmental assessments prior to issuing launch site permits or launch licenses. This was done for the Boca Chica site originally based on the Falcon rocket development. SpaceX then sought to expand that to Starship, which is a significantly larger effor...
Jump to postThe normal and correct way to make corporations "pay their fair share" is taxes. The defense department getting involved in amature-bait-tackle-and-fishing stuff is beyond "clumsy and imperfect". It's ineffecient. It's not how the system should be, and we can do better. First of...
Jump to postWhether or not the payment amount brings a corporation to its knees is irrelevant to it being extortion. They are requiring a company to support activities that are not relevant to the protection of the environment from their activities. Tell them what they have to do to mitigate any pollution or t...
Jump to postThey're 'placating' groups which seek to bolster environmental and historical conservation and education. There's something to be said for not letting corporations just come in and do anything they want with any site they purchase anywhere and the area around it, even if the compensation mechanisms ...
Jump to postAstra can't catch a break. Yesterday's launch for NASA with 2 cubesats failed to reach orbit and the payload was lost. https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/12/23165065/astra-failed-launch-resulted-loss-nasa-weather-satellites-cubesats-tropics Upper stage failure... That's 5 failed launches out of 7 attem...
Jump to postIt may be time for manufacturers to find outside-the-box ground cooling solutions if startup (and cooldown) times start to have a negative impact on sector time. We're indeed getting to the point where extended starting sequences are costing as much time as a few % of Mach on a short sector. Memori...
Jump to postIt may be time for manufacturers to find outside-the-box ground cooling solutions if startup (and cooldown) times start to have a negative impact on sector time. We're indeed getting to the point where extended starting sequences are costing as much time as a few % of Mach on a short sector. Memorie...
Jump to postMonday June 6 marks the 78 year anniversary of the D Day invasion at Normandy. This led to the Allied victory in Europe a year later and was a turning point with World War 2 in Europe. https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1310607&start=50#p18440229 Is 78 years an important anniversar...
Jump to postA stripper, a crooked politician and a scummy lawyer... If that isn't emblematic of the Trump era, I don't know what is.
Jump to postA couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to spend time with the Boom Engineers discussing Flight Deck layout and avionics integration in the more confined Overture space. Enjoyed a tour of the XB-1 and flew the simulator with the Test Pilots. Most of the engineers had been hired very recently....
Jump to postAh yes, transgender athletes...
The new GOP boogeyman that is definitely slowly destroying American society and not at all a distraction from the other issues they'd rather we didn't think about too hard.
This is where a strawman has entered the conversation. You agree that mental health issues and drugs play a huge role in the current societal crisis this country has BUT, Republicans are bad because they 'oppose' all help for that. Where exactly is this based on? and if Republicans are opposed to t...
Jump to postProfessor Farnsworth: Good Lord! That's over 5000 atmospheres of pressure! Fry: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand? Professor Farnsworth: Well, it was built for space travel, so anywhere between zero and one. Ha!I hadn't even remembered that one... I really need to brush up on my Futurama ...
Jump to postPerez with a new two year deal. Well deserved and congrats. Gasly won’t be too happy. Source: f1.com Good for Perez. I just hope they don't keep treating him as a sidekick the whole time. As for Gasly, he certainly looked very strong last year and could have hoped to return to the A-team. This seas...
Jump to postI'm chuffed for Checo. A well deserved victory.
As for Ferrari, they've once again successfully managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory... well done.
I feel for Leclerc. It should have been his day.
Pressurized vehicles or vessels are generally not designed to handle negative pressure differentials (or not much). That said, many spacecraft do come back to Earth by splashing down into the ocean, and those certainly are watertight and buoyant... At the end of the day, it depends on what spacecraf...
Jump to postThink it’s pretty far fetched linking the contract extension of Mbappe with Airbus selling aircraft to QR. The influence of the French state on Airbus is also being exaggerated in numerous posts on this thread; that’s quite simply not how the cooking crumbles. Exactly. The French government only ow...
Jump to postThanks for the update.
Avatar2go wrote:6. Cubesat batteries recharged.
Everything needs to be political, we are merely having a discussion in an aviation forum about this subject. I am not an elected member of congress or hold any elected office to actually make any change. I am as much as a normal any day user in a forum. You are not a politician but you support poli...
Jump to postDebunked by reality, by many cases in the US where gun laws are strict. By human nature. Laws won't stop evil. Ever. Yes, like I mentioned back in other pages, I said, sensible gun laws that would restrict people with mental health issues from owning a gun. That would be a good idea to look at. But...
Jump to postIts tiresome, same old same old debunked arguments. You expect a political solution to a problem the government itself can't fix, you are telling me that we shouldn't trust the government with the security of children parents leave at government buildings, but you propose creating laws that the sam...
Jump to postNo is not, despite making many people feel as they are. The school is a government building, protected by government agents who failed all the way to secure those children. Literally government agents were outside not going in whilst kids where being slaughtered. Parents begged for entry but were r...
Jump to post“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” This exactly what is going on here in Mercia! We need our guns because of criminals! Yet, it’s those who have obtained guns legally that have gone into these schools….. Yet, here we are doing the same thing over and o...
Jump to postTo be launched soon on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket (not) near you!
Those Halo orbits are really fascinating. It will be great to see how feasible and practical they are in real life use.
For a track that has a reputation for being a borefest Spain delivered it's second banger in a row. Some observations. - Mercedes is on the up and this very well could be a 3 team race for the title going forward. - George Russell is the real deal and it's nice to have equal drivers in Mercedes. He...
Jump to postThe second Iraq was was most definately an unorganized mess. (putin seems to have learned a lot from Dubya). No thought of what to do after the war, and just alienate the population to hating Americans. But lets not forget what really started it all was Hussain invading Kuwait and the other countri...
Jump to postVery nice report. Thanks for sharing. I have never flown Cathay Pacific but I'm sure it is a great airline to fly with. Also I was impressed with the modern engineering and architecture structures of the terminals. That's the other beauty of air travel, aside from looking at the beauty of flight. S...
Jump to postNot for nothing, but skeletons starting to emerge from Elon’s closet. He paid a SpaceX employee $250K to stay quiet about exposing himself to her on the company jet in 2016. https://www.engadget.com/elon-musk-spacex-sexual-miisconduct-230458875.html The going rate was around $130k just a few years ...
Jump to postNon-organic growth of an efficient intercity rail service in a territory previously void thereof but otherwise largely populated/farmed and with strong property laws is unfortunately almost impossible. It's a valiant effort from CA, but at this rate they might as well build the whole thing undergrou...
Jump to postTo clarify from the post-launch media briefing, there are 12 OMAC thrusters distributed between 4 doghouses. In the port doghouse, 2 of the thrusters had early shutdowns, but the 3rd was ok. Starliner has levels of redundancy that include the loss of any one doghouse, with the others compensating. ...
Jump to postYes, ET 788 ET-AOP "Queen of Sheba" suffered a much larger/worse hull fire back in 2013 and was patched and has been flying since w/out issue. The ET bird was not so much 'patched' as 'rebuilt-in-situ'... The repair was extensive and took a specialist team from Boeing. I would hope that f...
Jump to postThe question becomes why did the lightning not follow the path to the static discharge wicks? Surely that is their function. This is perfectly normal, you see lightning entry and exit points all over even on metal aircraft I have never seen lightning damage this extensive on an airliner before. A f...
Jump to posthttps://simpleflying.com/jetstar-boeing-787-lightning-strike/ Jetstar has grounded one of its 787s (VH-VKL) after being severely damaged by lightning strikes on May 7th. The video of the post flight inspection is doing the rounds and is showing quite extensive damage, including multiple scorch marks...
Jump to postIt seems the high russian troop deaths are not just on the success of the Ukrainians. russian commanders finish off their injured with a bullet to the head. I can’t find the original article but here is a Newsweek article. Obviously he is a prisoner of war so “could be forced to say anything” but I...
Jump to postI'm not familiar with the 737, but a broken mast heater should not incur a performance penalty. Unless maybe it involves structural damage and an associated CDL that would limit speed, though I doubt it. The slower than usual cruise may be associated with non optimal cruise altitude, higher than ave...
Jump to postI think they were too busy building a fake marina. Promotional/commercial considerations are more important then the basics such as asphalt. Gosh, how tacky is that marina thing... As for the rest, I'm afraid you're right. Monetizing races seems to have become more important to F1 than the racing i...
Jump to postDid they even resurface the parking lot it's built on?
F1 is walking a fine line by adding all these city tracks at the expense of more established and better suited proper racing circuits.
Thanks. All good points. On the subject of EEZ, it does assume a degree of international recognition of the control of said territory, which would not be forthcoming as most nations would not recognize this occupation as legitimate. It would be a one sided claim and treated as such, much like most ...
Jump to postDo we know why Snake island is so strategically important? It has been in the spotlight since early in the war and may have some symbolic value, but would Ukrainian air assets not be better used striking Russian targets on the Eastern front? I know that defending The southwestern coast is primordial...
Jump to postFrom the very limited data I get from the fleets I'm familiar with, I get a feeling that most of the weight saving is done early in the production run, within the first few years. Empty weights tend to stabilise towards the end of the run. I suppose it makes sense that the low hanging fruits would b...
Jump to postIs it me or was that booster titling a bit after landing?
Speaking of which, I wonder what happened to B1069 (nice) which got damaged during its sail back to port last December... I hope they didn't have to scrap it, it was only its first flight.
Thanks. Dream Chaser was always my favorite CCDev project. I was sad that they lost to SpaceX. Boeing was always gonna be selected as the 'safe contractor' ( :sarcastic: ) and there was only room for one 'outsider'. I understand why it went to SpaceX, and in the end it was the right decision. Still,...
Jump to postI'm not sure it's such a big deal. No official is going to do much more than maybe give him a fine about it. F1 is just butthurt that drivers may advertise products unlicensed by them. They're apparently targeting watches on the track too now, with Hamilton immediately protesting by wearing three of...
Jump to postThanks for the update.
It will be nice to see something different get launched from the Cape...
Does anyone know what else a difference between a 'special operation' and war would be? Apart from sending more young inexperienced men to die in Ukraine against their will, I can't see what he expects to gain. I'm guessing this will give him even more powers over the economy, such as mobilizing fa...
Jump to postRep. Anthony Sabatini THERE SHOULD BE NO AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT IN UKRAINE https://twitter.com/AnthonySabatini/status/1520840530976026627 Help me understand, do you think we should stop supplying Ukraine with weapons and intelligence? Do you think we should stop rallying the Europeans behind Ukraine?...
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