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The level of complacency, bureaucracy, and outright darn stupidity in U.S. aviation controls and regulations, that is coming out of this NTSB investigation is nothing short of astounding. Jennifer Homendy is on the ball again here, as always - she just needs to go a lot further, and to rip a new one, for a lot of people in the U.S. aviation scene. It is utterly mind-boggling that the U.S. Military actively choose to TURN OFF their ADS-B's, in ALL their military helicopters - on the basis of "military security". WTF???? Who puts the military morons into these positions, to make decisions such as this??? This is defying the basic principle of ADS-B's, and turning the aviation clock back 100 years, and placing every RPT airliner at major risk, when the military are operating in the same airspace as RPT aircraft. What is even more concerning is the inaccuracy of the Blackhawks barometric altimeters, which have been found to have inaccuracies of between 80 and 130 feet. At low level, where the military expectation is to operate at clearances as low as 75 feet, this is just a dozen disasters waiting to happen. It truly is a sad reflection on the U.S., that things have gotten this bad in U.S. aviation. Less than a second before hitting a passenger jet, helicopter instructor told pilot to change course, NTSB hearing reveals | CNN EDITION.CNN.COM The first of the National Transportation Safety Board’s three days of investigative hearings is underway to help determine what caused the deadly midair collision on January 29 between an Army helicopter on...

.....something was "off" in the concert programme. It became even more suss, when someone found out that Turbine Roadshows and Entertainment (Yes, folks, TR&E is even bigger than Comcast, even though you may never have heard of them), was behind the event - thus leading to cries of, "We want our money back!!" Turbo, who was also in the audience (but keeping a low profile, as always - he'd told his secretary he had to attend a major Tribunal hearing), started becoming alarmed when the cries of "We want our money back!!" became a crescendo and people starting jumping onto the stage and destroying equipment (which is what they expected to see, with the real Bon on stage). Things started getting out of hand quickly, and Turbo realised he'd have to decamp rapidly, before he was recognised. Accordingly, he donned a.................

And if they'd employed AI to design and launch their rocket, they'd have a man on the moon already! 😄

That would be an expensive disappointment. Musk can afford dozens of launch blow-ups, but I would imagine the Australian company would be hurting with that level of loss. I can well remember all the American space programme launch failures in the 1960's, they were truly devastating. I seem to recall someone did a YooToob video on them all.

I regularly watch an Emirates A380 come in for a landing in Perth in the late afternoon, from a Northerly point on the Tonkin Hwy near Muchea, as I travel South, back towards Perth city. Even from 30 or 40 kms away, it's a truly impressive sight in the sky, it is just massive, but graceful at the same time.

There's been at least a couple of these incidents .... https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/news/a19904/iron-maidens-badass-boeing-jet-gets-taken-out-of-commission/ https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/laguardia-airport-tug-driver-stuck-b2137363.html

You can't get truckies to stop for anything. Try slowing them down at roadworks, or at any accident site - their favourite saying is "pedal to the metal". Not letting up on the loud pedal when disaster is looming, has killed a lot of them - and a lot of innocent people, too.

And just how do towbars become disconnected? Lack of training, or lack of skills in the first place? One would presume that making sure a hitch was properly connected would be the primary instruction to a tug operator. After all, there's what? - $50M - $100M worth of aircraft at stake? - let alone the potential damage from a runaway aircraft rolling into airport infrastructure.

Bernie, you can check your internet download speed here ..... https://www.speedtest.net/

Chill out, nothing that Nev says, contains malice. He just still thinks he's running a classroom. 😄

Nev obviously means your flying exploits involve a lot of luck. 😄

Ouch, that's going to require a little more than a tin of polishing compound! I wonder if the tug driver is looking for a new job, commensurate with his true abilities, right about now? - "Did you want fries with that?" 😢

The media are out to keep raking the coals around the crash, so they can milk it for all it's worth. Nothing new to report, until the Indian AAIB release a lot more information such as the full CVR record and any medical history on the pilots that could shine more light on their state of mind/s. The FAA has reported that all their testing has found absolutely nothing wrong with the B787 fuel cut-off switch system, as regards the mechanical locking mechanism, and inadvertent switching by accidentally bumping them, is impossible. I still suspect it was a "brain fart" on the part of the Captain - he was greatly worried about his elderly father, and was planning to retire to look after him. Not something a suicidal individual would plan. reuters.com WWW.REUTERS.COM

Noice! Make sure you carry a plastic cap for the vent tube to stop the mud-dauber wasps. I think CASA say it only takes 20 mins after landing for a mud-dauber wasp to block an opening.

Gee, that X-air climbs like an F4 Phantom using afterburners! 😄

It could also have easily been unauthorised aerobatics that got out of hand. I can't find any flight tests of the aircraft in English, but I found one in French. These fast European "plastic fantastics" can have some nasty "bites" in their handling.

Highly likely to be a stall-spin crash, the simple event that kills a lot unwary or unskilled pilots. This young bloke presents a good, thoughtful video, on how to be aware of the important link between stall and spin.

How many of the views would be bots, though? On another forum I'm on, every time I log in, there's always half a dozen bots viewing the site, as well as a few members.

.....the Roman Quinarius and Aureas had lost their shine, so to speak, thus leading the other currencies to become dominant in the Levant. However, bull's move to ban the bearded bloke from the LFTA, led to bull being cursed by the bearded bloke, and affected by a nasty affliction that caused bull to............

....did a roaring trade using the Temple as an operating base - until the day a bearded bloke in sandals, a long frock-like costume, and with a halo hovering over him, grabbed their tables and hurled them over, thus ruining the trades for that day. The bearded bloke also yelled out something like they were scumbags for using his Dads House to do their business. It puzzled the Money Changers that this bloke was claiming the Temple as his Dad's House - but hey, there's a nutter with crazy ideas in every crowd, isn't there? Of course, the Money Changers suspected this violent move was all just a front to install currency-changing ATM's by the bearded bloke, so they got together and.............

I flew on one of Virgins B737-8FE's today (VH-YQR), and while waiting to load everyone on, I looked up the history of the aircraft. I was surprised to come across an ATSB Incident Report from 2023, detailing a major flight upset with this aircraft, approaching cruise level - and the interesting part is - it involves an incorrect switch selection, due to distraction. I thought this report made for an interesting read, and it shows just how easily a mistake in control selection can be made and how long it takes to figure out what has gone wrong with aircraft handling. Inadvertent rudder trim input led to 737 in-flight upset | ATSB WWW.ATSB.GOV.AU

I could easily spend a whole day admiring the engineering, the construction work, and the sheer beauty and promise, of just what was in each part of the crate! Now comes the real hard yakka!

Gee, getting an $894M investment in the company from Toyota, is some record achievement!

Kit foxtails? As in what we used to hang off car radio aerials? 😄

.....daily operations and finance controls of the First Temple of Jerusalem - thus showing that our family ancestors could even show the Jews a thing or two, about handling big incomes. Of course, what is not well known is that OT's ancestor, Josiah Track, had a major financial investor to compete with, one Jeremiah Cook, who controlled all the accommodation in the Levant. Yes, Dear NES readers, that Jeremiah Cook just happened to be one of Cappys ancestors, and it's not well reported that accommodation was particularly tight, right about the time a huge star appeared over Jerusalem, and because of this, people couldn't even find a room in a Cook Motel to have a baby (or even create one). This fact was solely due to the ruthless control over every Levant motel by said Jeremiah Cook, who had wangled the position of Comptroller of Motels in the Levant. This enabled Jeremiah to scuttle plans for any proposed motels that competed with the Cook motel chain, and thereby led to the acute shortage of accommodation in the Levant. Shortly after JC started going to school, and not long after he learnt the basics of monopolies and "big money" control, he set about.........