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Boeing have built 1,189 Dreamliners and they have flown billions and billions of miles, and this is the first Dreamliner hull loss, and the first double engine failure. So the problem is less likely to be a software fault, and more likely to be a combination of faults, or damage, beginning with a totally unforeseen mechanical or electrical failure that cascaded. I'm imagining a burst hydraulic pipe that short-circuited electrical wiring with metal shards, which then shut off the high pressure fuel valves. Something along those lines, and something never imagined possible.

First it was the Russians attacking Ukraine, then it was Israel attacking Iran - now it's extended to Boeings attacking Airbuses! What is the world coming to? Can't everyone just live in peace? 😄

The information regarding Bert Hinklers crash and death in that crash is a mix of guesses and misinformation. The official Australian report is that Hinklers Puss Moth lost a section of the propeller, thus forcing him to make an emergency landing and he hit a tree whilst trying to do so. But this description is incorrect, and based on hearsay and unknown evidence - if any. The facts are that the Italian aviation authority of 1933 carried out an official crash investigation - but the results were not made available to Australian authorities, and it is believed this crash investigation report was destroyed during WW2 war actions. A retired aviation engineer and air crash accident investigator, Clive Phillips, has carried out a thorough assessment of Hinklers fatal crash. He did his assessment based on a limited number of available photos of the crashed aircraft, and various other written sources of information that he gleaned from Italian and other sources. In essence, he states that he believes Hinklers Puss Moth suffered a wing spar failure - which the Puss Moths were notorious for - and he crashed simply because of that loss of a wing. There is a report in the Australian Dictionary of Biography which states that Hinkler survived the crash and died outside the wreckage. This appears to be at odds with the report from the Italian medical authorities at the time that Hinkler died instantly, after being ejected from the aircraft on impact, and he suffered severe cranial and thoracic injuries, which the Italian doctors deemed as causing immediate death. The investigators report is linked to, below. Interestingly, the investigator also owned a Puss Moth, the one on display in the Hinkler Museum. https://aircentre.com.au/aircraft/pioneers/media/whalley-phillips.pdf The very first of the Puss Moth accidents happened just East of Perth in Oct 1930, and it killed the famous and highly skilled aviator, Capt Charles H.F. Nesbit, as well as his two students, a young woman and a man. The Puss Moth crashes are famous for 4 reasons. 1. They killed a lot of famous, careful and skilled pilots. 2. They were international in occurrence. 3. The Puss Moth crashes led to the rapid application of scientific research and definitive causes to aircraft crashes. 4. The Puss Moth crashes largely contributed to the formation of the Aeronautical Research Laboratory of Australia. Below is a fascinating and occasionally humorous outline (despite the grim subject) of the development of air crash investigation in Australia. It is a document produced in 1993, celebrating the first 50 years of aircraft crash investigation by the ARL and associated investigators, and examines all of the early and famous aircraft crashes, and how the truth was sifted from a lot of initial obfuscation. https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA267086.pdf

......fully conversant with the Speaking Backwards Language. A lot of people have heard of the Navajo Code Talkers, who were Americas secret weapon during WW2, but few people are aware that Turbo's teacher was the primary instigator of SBL during WW2, and she was responsible for saving many Australian soldiers lives, by confusing the Japanese forces listening in to Australian forces radio transmissions. Her unique language was taught in the Australian Army Signals Corp, thus resulting in a large group of people who could converse fluently in SBL. You can occasionally hear SBL being spoken in bars and hotels by people who've had way too much to drink, and it sounds like they're talking slurred rubbish - but people in the know (hint, hint), immediately recognise that language and speaker, and they deserve respect, not...........

And you said this, on Page One? ..... QUOTE: "The schools I have used have never supplied any t and c,s." So what is that on the bottom of the form you signed? 😄

Turbo, I wouldn't strictly say it was correct that the U.S. Govt "took away" divisions of GM. In 1959, the U.S. Govt, fearful of GM's massive financial powers, initiated an anti-trust lawsuit against GM, specifically against its merger with the Euclid Road Machinery Company, that occurred in Sept 1953. This was the precursor of the U.S. Govts attempts to break up GM. In essence, Euclid, prior to its merger with GM, used a variety of engines for its construction equipment, mostly GM 2 stroke diesels or Cummins. Once Euclid was folded into GM, you could only get GM diesels and Allison transmissions, nothing else. Companies such as Clark, Cummins, and Caterpillar were dismayed at GM's massive controlling ability in the construction equipment field, and complained bitterly. As a result, the Clayton Act lawsuit was initiated. Added to this lawsuit, in 1961, the U.S. DoJ initiated criminal charges against GM executives, in relation to GM's Electromotive Division (EMD), which according to the D0J, used its massive rail freighting power (shipping GM products) to arm-twist railroads into buying EMD locomotives. GM stonewalled the Govt on these charges until the DoJ gave up. More Anti-Trust actions were proposed as regarding the too-close tie-up between DuPont and GM, and between GM and GMAC (GM Acceptance Corp, the finance arm of GM). I'm not conversant with the GMAC result, but in the case of DuPont, DuPont was forced to divest itself of its huge level of GM shares. The Euclid lawsuit dragged on for years, with Robert F Kennedy, as the U.S. Govt A-G, playing a large part in the negotiations. GM was finally ordered to divest itself of Euclid, in 1968. GM sold Euclid to the White Truck Corporation - but because the legal decision only affected the U.S., GM kept their Euclid factory outside the U.S. (specifically, Motherwell in Scotland) and shortly after, renamed its construction equipment division, Terex. From there, Terex went on to have a very fractured history, with GM selling Terex to the IBH company of Germany in 1981. Unfortunately, IBH was run by a con-artist, and when all his fraud was uncovered, IBH went bankrupt. Terex was then broken up again into multiple operations, and eventually recovered as a construction force under management ownership. America has strong laws against monopolies and deceitful corporate actions, but trying to prove them in court, when those corporations can also employ gifted lawyers with accountancy degrees as well, mean the U.S. Govt often has great difficulty pinning illegality on corporate moves, that the corporations insist, are all for the betterment of everyone! Speech by A-G Robert Kennedy, 1961, outlining his approach to Anti-Trust law enforcement - https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/ag/legacy/2011/01/20/11-13-1961.pdf 1960 Anti-Trust lawsuit against GM by the U.S. Govt - https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/183/858/1973615/ EMD Anti-Trust case - https://utahrails.net/loconotes/emd-antitrust-case.php The DuPont, GM shares divestiture - https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/us-supreme-court-orders-du-pont-disburse-gm-holdings Interesting outline of the U.S. Govts Anti-Trust actions against GM in the 1960's - https://www.pontiacv8.com/blog/2018/9/14/gms-infamous-racing-ban-of-1963 Wikipedia article on Euclid - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_Trucks

I don't know how many derogatory adjectives you could think up for this trucking prototype - "impractical", "unrealistic", "uneconomic", "inefficient", "fuel-thirsty", "outright dangerous" and "economically unsound", immediately come to mind. Gas turbine proposals brought a gleam to oil company executives eyes, as they slurped fuel worse than any huge aircraft radial - even though it might have been kerosene. Can you imagine the impracticality of operating a machine like that in a huge warehousing yard with hundreds of other trucks? (I might add, some trucking operations in the U.S. own 10,000-12,000 trucks, and 80,000 to 100,000 trailers). The lack of driver protection in a crash is outstanding, to say the least. I couldn't even bring myself to imagine the complexity of the engines and drivetrain, and the huge range of specialist skills and tools needed to fix it. There's a reason why trucks look the way they do, and are built the way they are. They're a time-honoured, proven and practical design and shape, and the basics of them haven't changed a lot since the late 1940's. I'm staggered at the amount of money that the likes of the big corporate vehicle manufacturers wasted on what amounts to design masturbation sessions in this era. It comes back to the fact that GM was the richest and most powerful corporation in the world, in the 20th century, in the 1950's and 1960's, and they had hundreds of millions to spend on outlandish designs and stupid prototypes, that wasn't even missed. Come the 21st century and decades of GM mismanagement and poor planning, though, and it was a totally different story, leading to GM's bankruptcy in 2009. Naturally, GM's bankruptcy was also the worlds largest bankruptcy, up to that time!

The latest news is that all the information from the CVR and FDR from Flight 171 has been successfully downloaded by the AAIB in their new lab in India, and analysis of the information is now taking place, to determine the sequence and the events that led to the crash. https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/in-air-india-crash-probe-breakthrough-data-downloaded-from-black-boxes-8765795

The crash investigation has been muddied by a crazy IT woman, who claimed in a hoax email, that she had brought down Air India Flight 171. Her false claim diverted a lot of investigative staff into trying to ascertain if the aircraft had been sabotaged. As it turns out, the woman is a vicious, jealous, and vindictive piece of work, and she initiated a total of around 65 hoax bomb threats, trying to frame a male IT colleague, who married another woman. Despite her very clever IT skills, she made an error in her computer log-in trails, which led police to her. Now, the line of inquiry into possible aircraft sabotage can be dropped. https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/rene-joshilda-chennai-techie-love-obsession-man-hoax-bomb-threats-13900138.html https://the420.in/rene-joshilda-cyber-expert-arrested-for-bomb-hoax-emails-jaipur-ahmedabad-ipl-threat-investigation/

......introverts and aircraft almost never mix well, as we all know that all pilots are showoffs behind the cool, cultured, unflappable, aviator sunglasses exterior. But Turbo was a strange mixture of introvert and extrovert - a sort of "Jekyll and Hyde" figure, shall we say. By day, he was an introvert, toiling over aircraft design and areodynamics problems that others failed to solve. But come night-time, and Turbo turned into one of the biggest aviation show-offs around. "But hang on, I hear you say, how can one be an aviation showoff in the dark?" Well, Turbo's degrees extended to complex electrical design, too, and one thing he loved to do was outfit his aircraft with a scintillating lights display. Turbo got his aircraft showoff lighting ideas from the time he spent in the trucking industry, where, as we all know, truckies just love to outdo each other with the number and placement of "chicken lights", and backlit truck make badges, and other glitzy, flashy lighting displays. So, it came to pass, that Turbo's lighting decorations for his F6F Hellcat could dazzle any "Christmas Tree" truckie into pulling into the nearest truck bay in outright awe - even more so, when Turbo did a......

Fortunately, Tata have deep pockets and India would be one of the best places to operate an airline, teeming billions of population, a huge diaspora that needs to go back to see relatives regularly, and an increasing number of middle class Indians, who are wealthy enough to do a considerable amount of flying. The aircraft passenger load factors in India are higher than any other country. https://aircargoweek.com/india-is-experiencing-a-major-boom-in-aviation/ https://currentaffairs.adda247.com/india-tops-global-domestic-flight-load-rankings/#:~:text=India has emerged as the,Transport Association (IATA) report.

.....the glass-less Anson, that someone asked, "Wouldn't that be a little breezy to fly?" Sanjay replied, "Yes, it is a little, but think of the improved safety levels, where the glass is eliminated! No more flying glass cuts! And besides, most aviators love the feel of the wind in their face! And besides, I've invented a vastly improved set of goggles to go with the design, which will make flying it, so much more........

The economic fallout of the crash is going to have substantial ramifications for Air India and its subsidiaries. According to preliminary estimates, the insurance payout for the disaster could reach $475 million, making it one of India’s costliest aviation payouts. The payout figure includes $125 million for the aircraft hull, and approximately $350 million in fatality/injury compensation. Insurance premiums for Indian carriers, especially those operating Boeing fleets, are now expected to rise by up to 100% in the next underwriting cycle. Air India and SpiceJet, both major Boeing customers, may see premiums increase from $28 million, to up to $40 million or $50 million annually. The substantially increased insurance cost will likely be passed on to passengers through higher ticket prices, estimated to rise by 2% to 5% in the near future - and even higher on local routes. Aircraft leasing costs are also expected to increase, especially for Boeing models. Lessors will now factor in increased risk and insurance liabilities. Then there's the impact of a loss of passenger trust in Air India safety and management of its aircraft and employees - something that is bound to have a major effect on Air India's bottom line.

Not a setup, and the things that look like clecos, aren't. I'm not sure what they are exactly. It IS a Hermes 900 drone, and an Israeli one. The Iranians are crowing about knocking this one out - what they fail to reveal, is that Israel smuggled dozens and dozens of their drones into Iran, on a par with the Ukrainian technique, and did quite a bit of damage to Iranian military assets with the ones that did get through the Iranian repelling efforts.

Complete with self-destruct explosive charge, set to go off, right as a crowd of Iranian senior military personnel gather around it. 🤯