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9 votes
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How Boeing, US FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system
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Boeing 737MAX, a software engineers perspective
@trevorsumner: Some people are calling the 737MAX tragedies a #software failure. Here's my response: It's not a software problem. It was an * Economic problem that the 737 engines used too much fuel, so they decided to install more efficient engines with bigger fans and make the 737MAX.
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Ethiopia's Boeing 737 MAX 8 black box data 'shows clear similarities' with Lion Air crash
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Flying taxis. Seriously?
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Rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s
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The 737Max and Software Engineering
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Boeing 737 MAX 8 operations suspended in Australia after Ethiopian Airlines crash
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The striking similarities between Lion Air and Ethiopian 737 MAX crashes
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Ethiopian Airlines flight to Nairobi crashes, deaths reported
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NASA captures first air-to-air images of supersonic shockwave interaction in flight
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Air travel for horses
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Explosive packages found at Heathrow, Waterloo and London City Airport
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Why airlines are cracking down on "skiplagging"
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China blocks 17.5 million plane tickets for people without enough 'social credit'
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Ode to the 767
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How Flightradar24—and other ADS-B tracking systems—work
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A380: Airbus to end production of superjumbo
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Departures at Heathrow were temporarily stopped after a drone was reported to have been sighted
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'Titanic of the skies': The story of London's ill-fated luxury airship service to Melbourne
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Black box data reveals pilots’ struggle to regain control of doomed jet
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The economics of airline class
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'Sci-fi' plane with no moving parts flies successfully
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Lion Air plane carrying at least 189 people crashes after taking off from Jakarta
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Singapore flying taxi trial set to begin in the second half of 2019
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Faster check-in as Shanghai airport starts using facial recognition
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An optical illusion that resembles "looming googly eyes" scares some types of birds, and is being used to keep them away from an airport
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High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things...
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
---By John Gillespie Magee Jr6 votes -
Why the world is running out of pilots
9 votes -
The government wants airlines to delay your flight so they can scan your face
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What is the future of high speed travel?
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'Fly Girls' tells the early history of women in aviation
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I flew from Columbus, Ohio to Ely, Minnesota
I flew to Ely, Minnesota in August with my friend Jared. Hope the images work, I'll rehost if they don't. http://photosoverohio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/IMG_2631.jpg Me left, Jared right. He...
I flew to Ely, Minnesota in August with my friend Jared.
Hope the images work, I'll rehost if they don't.
http://photosoverohio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/IMG_2631.jpg
Me left, Jared right.
He takes a regular trip with his family into the Boundary Waters (BWCA) and my in-laws have a cabin on a BWCA lake. In order to avoid driving and to get some flying hours in, we took this tiny plane from Columbus, OH to Ely, MN.
http://photosoverohio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/flight-path.jpg
Red line is actual GPS route. Blue line is simply airport-to-airport route.
We were trying to avoid flying over large bodies of water because when you’re in a single engine airplane, you don’t have a lot of options besides swimming if your engine goes out (ours didn’t).
We meant to get fuel after Chicago but the day we were flying we had 30 (thirty!!!!) knot headwinds even low to the ground. It was stupidly impressive bad luck. So we had to stop in Gary, IN to grab some gas before heading up again.
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Gary, IN
After grabbing gas, we were off. We saw the Blue Angels parked on the north ramp of the airport as we were taking off but it was too late to grab a picture. Turned out they had a show over the Navy Pier in Chicago a little later in the morning.
We know because we flew through the TFR (before it activated).
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Chicago, IL
We thought we only had about 15 minutes to get through the TFR which we thought we could barely make, but also thought if we’re going to get intercepted, would be pretty cool to get intercepted by the Blue Angels, then realized the time change to Central and that we had an extra hour still before the TFR went active. The Blue Angels did not intercept us.
Next we flew up towards Duluth. Still staying low because of the ridiculous headwinds, but that meant things were also super bumpy.
Jared puked for the first time ever in a small airplane. I always have a puke bag in the plane for emergencies but never expected to use it with two pilots on board.
So Jared pukes. The turbulence and motion wasn’t getting to me until then, but that puke-bile smell? Oh yeah. I could feel it.
The problem was that I only had one puke bag in the cockpit. If I had to hurl, it was going to be in the same bag Jared used earlier. Gross.
Furthermore, Jared told me point blank that if I hurled, he was going to need the bag back to go again.
Faced with the prospect of sharing a puke-bag and passing it back and forth, we decided to land and take a 45 minute break.
We felt better after taking off (and getting the back-up puke bag from the baggage compartment).
Anyway, here’s Duluth:
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After turning the corner at Duluth, we went along Minnesota’s North Shore to drop Jared off in Grand Marais.
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Two-Harbors on the North Shore of Minnesota
Then finally, with the plane to myself, I flew over the Boundary Waters due west to land in Ely, MN.
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Somewhere in the BWCA between Grand Marais and Ely. Endless untouched nature.
Was a fun trip. 9.3 hours in the plane due to the ridiculous headwinds. I was super happy to get a burger on the ground.
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The logistics behind transporting a billion-dollar satellite on the Air Force's largest cargo plane
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"Suicidal" airline employee stole an empty turboprop plane, took off from Sea-Tac and was chased by military jets before crashing into a small island in the Puget Sound
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TSA looks at doing away with security screening at 150 smaller airports in US
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MH370 investigators unable to determine cause of disappearance unless 'wreckage is found'
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Global pilot shortage hits Australia, with cancelled regional routes just the beginning
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China's social credit system has blocked people from taking eleven million flights and four million train trips
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The flying car backed by Google's cofounder just got a big update, and people can pilot it with less than an hour's training
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Plane crashes in Havana with more than 100 on board
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OneSpace launches China's first private rocket
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Taiwan seeks 'correction' after Air Canada lists Taipei as part of China
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