About age of consent, there has just been a change in France, well the age hasn't changed (to some feminists' despair), it's still 15, but something similar to "statutory rape" was introduced... To use the word "rape" is outrageous. Just like in India. The feminists wanted the a...
Jump to postKurt Cobain played his last concert in terminal 1 of the former Munich airport. However after three years use for party the place was needed for a new trade fare center and a new residential area. The old tower is still there.
Jump to postIs a world without war possible? 1975 the war in Vietnam ended. The war in Angola started. Americans had enough of war and voted Carter (1977-81). However he was followed by Reagan. I assume that Carter lost the election because he appointed Paul Volcker to head the FED. And while there was a lot of...
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McCarthy died 48 years old of acute hepatitis.
Could an A350-950 be a replacement for the -1000? The -1000 doesn't sell well. I guess it's overstretched with length/ fuselage hight = 12. A 70,1 m long plane would be 11,5, the -900 has 11. However the B777-300ER has length/ fuselage width of 11,9. That's very long. Strange that Boeing stretched i...
Jump to postIn the case of the 777X, the early deferred production cost were written of, because Boeing did not expect to recover those cost inside the expected production run. That actually does not bode well for the program and therefor a 777-8F. Or Boeing didn't want to go the B787 way, selling huge quantit...
Jump to postI believe they violated social distancing norms. They need to train the cabin crew as referees. Give them a bell and a whistle. Let passengers place bets via the inflight entertainment system, etc. And the winners come into an election system. Each airline could have it's own WWW. Make aviation int...
Jump to postjohns624 wrote:Then there's the Epstein angle...
https://news.yahoo.com/melinda-gates-wa ... 50998.html
I think in Germany the definition of child abuse requires 5 years age difference. Also in Germany a 14 year old has the right to decide over her body. Till 16 parents have a right to object, but a court has to decide if the girl is too immature. Obviously in practical terms this rule is mostly ignor...
Jump to postAnd here is another GOP luminary regaling us how the Three Fifths compromise was reached to end slavery: https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1389627527187021834?s=21&fbclid=IwAR0LD2SBD6qGuMRdBw2tHjUIt_XSqrxwPUJNRXpAZwpMnGDIAQ3xBe4E4i8 These are not outliers, this is core conservative doctrine...
Jump to postChild porn may have helped him control is urges but think of the children who were forced to make those images for him to control his urges. The only way to stop a man like this's urges is castration. I'm not sure if it helps control urges. But it seems after loosing control in adolescence he got h...
Jump to postPriorities change. Back then he could have been looking for a sensible, stable, respectable type, good mother material, someone the fellow captains of industry would feel comfortable with. Now he could be looking for someone to have a fling with for a while and then move on to the next one. ... Thi...
Jump to postChild porn is so dead wrong on so many levels, very illegal in the USA for good reason that it needs heavy penalties for its consumers and makers. Question: Does watching child porn help pedophiles to control their phantasies? That guy apparently didn't abuse a child for a very long time. Makes me ...
Jump to postNeither the Dreamliner, nor the MAX were introduced smoothly. Is it possible airlines don't trust Boeing anymore to execute trouble free? That they take a wait and see approach?
Both the -1000 and the -9 don't sell.
I believe they violated social distancing norms.
Jump to postWhat is the average trip length in North America? With higher fuel prices and load factors which are never 100% on a consistent basis, aren't airlines paying a premium for the extra capability of the 321 won't use on most of it's flights? The function of price is to distribute limited resources. If...
Jump to post747classic wrote:- 787 series, a real disaster. test aircraft #1,#2 and #3 are preserved in several museums, Aircraft #4 still active as a testbed, Test aircraft #5 is scrapped.
chonetsao wrote:There is a crazy conspiracy theory on this:
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Is the top of the tank the floor of the plane? If so I hope nobody will fall in the gap next to the wall.
Jump to postReminds me of 2008. There was a demand to limit bankers' bonuses. The banks argued in that case they may not be able to maintain the best talent. Anybody heard the name Zeiss before? "Carl Zeiss AG branded as ZEISS, is a German manufacturer of optical systems and optoelectronics, founded in Jen...
Jump to postLike someone said on Twitter, Melinda is not the only person wants Bill out of their lives. If he can go away permanently $640 Million is amicable. That is wishful thinking, he will be in our lives for a long time. When I married in India 2004 AIDS was a big issue. The Gates Foundation started supp...
Jump to postThere was an evangelical epidemiologist from Baylor interviewed on the radio yesterday--she's trying to make inroads into the evangelical community and encourage them to wear masks, get the vaccine, etc.. She now has to have additional security for her house and family due to the threats. #blessed ...
Jump to postAnd then there are more ways to exploit the poor than just slavery. England prohibited slavery early, at least in Britain itself. Did it stop the industrial revolution? Did the English industry use resources produced in Britain or within the Empire? I guess just like Germany or Japan they had to im...
Jump to postLaws have to be made to prevent bad situations. They can only do justice in a majority of cases. That's the price a society has to pay to prevent arbitrary decisions by those in power. It is possible that the child spoilt the monitor on purpose and has a long history of defiant behavior. Maybe she h...
Jump to postFWIW, In the MD-11 we used to layover in Almaty going between FRA or CDG to HKG. The 777 does it nonstop now. Is this something like 60% fuel, 40% cargo by weight? Is it a question of time savings, landing fees or engine maintenance? Or is there just not enough cargo to require that stop and the ne...
Jump to postImho it is important to finally admit the huge impact African American had in the economic development of the United States. Without them America would not have risen in power so steeply from the 17th to the 20th century. It would be much more fitting than painting them as poor but dispersible vict...
Jump to postWhat I find very odd is that the 777-9 was already supposed to be in service this year, not once since it was launched have I seen Boeing ever put in public a maximum payload or range payload curve. In contrast before the A350-1000 was built, range payload curves were provided at various airshows. ...
Jump to postCan't provide facts, but I have my doubts that the A350-1000 is so wonderful. It didn't sell like hot cake. Maybe the B777-300ER was oversold in the sellers market. Do they mostly start close to MTOW? And then B787-9 and A350-900 are good competitors. Makes sense to wait till introduction and see re...
Jump to postOr maybe it was having the empire with access to resources and spare manpower. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zc92xnb/revision/4 https://historyofyesterday.com/how-slavery-fueled-the-industrial-revolution-a0190a9b48a1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833 There are and wer...
Jump to postThink outside the box:
https://youtu.be/0JPRvxTjfOk
morrisond wrote:Sokes wrote:Anything known about maintenance of the Leaps when used close to max power? With a lower bypass ratio my assumption may be wrong.
Vs all the earlier engines of lower bypass ratio? Or are you saying less maintenance vs more highly stressed NEO power plants?
Is airport management so boring? It sounds like you have a lot of responsibility. Others probably envy you for that job. Then there is lifestyle. Some people like to be on the road, some like it best to work in their garden. If it's flying that tempts you, a small plane is I guess more fun to fly. I...
Jump to postRevelation wrote:...pensions get slashed if not demolished.
Again: Why did the industrialization happen in the North instead of the South? Availability of skilled workers and resources, the first one made possible by the agrarian output produced in the South, the second one as well when it comes to cotton, sugar or tobacco. Slavery was legal in Noth America...
Jump to postThe -10's main function is to keep Airbus pricing honest. Happy to be corrected. ... Thus, I think it's fair to suggest MAX-10 is also about offering a growth path for customers who already have large investments in the 737 ecosystem, and a bummer for these airlines that they won't be available til...
Jump to posthttps://iagcargomagazine.com/2020/07/28/meet-the-boeing-787-10-iag-cargos-newest-aircraft/ Do you mean at certain ranges? Because I mean the 789 cannot volumetrically carry more cargo? Anyway IAG cargo seems to loves its cargo capabilities transatlantic even moreso than any other Dreamliner they op...
Jump to postzeke wrote:Sokes wrote:Maybe making the wall thinner gives extra strength?
Not if you are keeping other things equal,. You can increase skin thickness, the keel beam would need to be significantly stronger, both increase empty weight.
Noshow wrote:The A220 is now part of this competition.
Same MZFW is not going to happen, and "expected structural changes" is the understatement of the internet, around 18 meters more fuselage than the base model (62 to 80 m). O.k., that's a funny point. The -200 is 63,7 m long, but that doesn't change your argument. With a fuselage width of ...
Jump to postOne has to wonder, that if like with pressurized aircraft, there is a finite limit of cycles of compression/decompression for submarines, even if extensively rebuilt. As some have noted, only a small crack can doom a sub. Like with aircraft, you could have a small stress crack develop that over tim...
Jump to postI don't see where he is invalidating what I have written above. The article clearly explains the reduction in MZFW with increased MTOW, you said it would remain the same or be increased. That's not how I understood tomcat. He said he would expect the -10 to have at least same MZFW/ MLW, but he adde...
Jump to postShort undercarriage and non-containerized cargo is best at smaller capacity. There was a need to replace B757s and B767s. Naturally Airbus won this competition. Add pilot shortage. There will be a time the A319s and -700s will need replacements. The MAX may be the better plane for it. The -10's main...
Jump to postOne reason Boeing has negative equity because of the accounting rules related to health care and pension costs. They’re required to carry the value of the liability on the balance sheet adjusted for current interest rates. This inflates the costs in a way that is disconnected from what Boeing actua...
Jump to postEnough to spread new mutations around the world in days.
Jump to postThe A350-900 has 745 orders versus 168 for the -1000. And that's without the competition from above. It seems the -1000 isn't too attractive. I expect the -1000 won't be able to compete against B777-9X. Assuming the B777-9X gets a MTOW of at least 360t. Let's assume further that the B777-8X is like ...
Jump to postEnough discussion for today. You got the last word.
Jump to postThe Dreamliner has pumped out out billions of cash in excess of production cost and will continue to do so even at the lower rates - of course once deliveries ramp up again - just like the MAX. You have a source? Go read the annual reports or anyones analysis by anyone on Wall Street. You yourself ...
Jump to postGremlinzzzz wrote:Sokes wrote:...didn't need, because they booked their B787 losses as an asset.
Can they sell these assets like the property they are selling in Puget Sound?
LTD = Long term Debt From 2011 to 2018 pre-MAX/Covid LTD barely budged. They financed the share buybacks from excess cash flow they didn't need. ...didn't need, because they booked their B787 losses as an asset. So if debt is short term it's better? Not using program accounting doesn’t mean 787 los...
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