Wow, that's about the same as my car cost... $30 million +/- $30 million.

Actually I think I figured it out. It's so they have enough reserve fuel to wait for a blizzard to subside when arriving home after winning the super bowl.

One thing I find amusing is how the article points out the endurance of the planes. Where the heck are they going to play (American) football that's 12 hours from Boston?

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2028 ... own-planes

I don't know... which is worse?

It's those damn cheap crackerbox composite radomes that are the problem! Make 'em out of good old cast iron and there would never be a problem.

https://www.fark.com/comments/9675656/P ... ting-plane

Plus, what is the airspeed velocity...

I will forever be disappointed in that movie for their failure to indicate whether the airspeed they were concerned with was IAS, TAS, or CAS.

Congratulations... you're on your way to becoming a pilot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1oMhMwUbgc

OMG this takes me back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MHJJhbCmdA

You have to love an airplane with a takeoff roll equal to about double the length of the fuselage...

That's a very good point. In addition, it's quite possible the "soft landing" option he envisioned would have taken the plane straight into that line of cars and he was trying to avoid that. OTOH when I was a kid my friends and I used to fly control-line airplanes (yeah, go ahead, say it, it's lame)...

Probably if he had lost all 3 engines the outcome would have been better.

Or if he hadn't expected the wing to produce lift at a 30-degree (estimated of course) AoA...

On a slightly more serious note, did anyone else notice the engine seemed to be running even after the plane came to a stop? And the plane was clearly controllable so I wonder what the mechanical issue actually was. Maybe something like loss of oil pressure and the guy got it down before the engine ...

Actually I think in most cases that kind of power loss in an engine would result in a #2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tcD_dVcXE4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJuEAQbxWRo

Take note of the part at 8:58 where when discussing the crew's successful efforts to save the aircraft, they mention how they pulled the circuit breakers for some of the flight controls...

http://www.news965.com/news/local/allig ... D=ref_fark

How much longer are we going to ignore the terrible threat to aircraft posed by alligators?

I think there are also some "3D metal printing" processes out there where the item is not printed directly. Instead it's printed with a low-melting-point material like wax, that material is used to make a mold, then molten metal is poured into the mold to make the final product.

And there is part of me that understands that 'the government' is probably the worst entity to enact such regulations. I can think of two that are worse: corporate CEOs/boards, and corporate shareholders. Basically anyone with a profit motive. Having said that, I do think regulation of airlines' re...

Which there's not much point in doing, given the large number of similarities between the two (leaders)...

We get Trump and the Dutch get this guy: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/18/europe/ne ... index.html

Is there some obscure clause somewhere in international law that might allow us to switch leaders?

These guys seem a little clueless/reckless.

Not a little but a lot IMHO. This isn't just someone accidentally grabbing the wrong pair of pliers!

Fox News report claiming this cost taxpayers $50 million coming in 3... 2... 1...

What are we waiting for to ban them?

For Evan to get elected to public office?

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