Who is on first?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfmvkO5x6Ng

EADS Says A380 Hurts Profit Now, Dollar to Help Later May 14 European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co., parent of planemaker Airbus SAS, said a stronger dollar may make the A380 superjumbo profitable in the longer term, even though the plane will weigh “substantially” on 2010 earnings. * * * EAD...

Did he died?

We'll never know:
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Here are some additional photographs of iceland.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/0 ... okull.html

NTSB Holds Public Meeting on The Incident TIME AND DATE : 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, May 4, 2010. PLACE : NTSB Conference Center, 429 L’Enfant Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20594. MATTER TO BE CONSIDERED : 8082A Aircraft Accident Report—Loss of Thrust in Both Engines After Encountering a Flock of Birds and Su...

First the news: "FRANKFURT, April 18 (Reuters) - The chief executive of European planemaker Airbus (EAD.PA) said in an interview due to be published on April 19, that he could not exclude the possibility of deliveries of the A350 jetliner being delayed." Talking to German weekly magazine ...

Here is an ariticle on the effects of ash on engine parts including photographs of built up residue and erosion of materials caused by the abrasive material.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2 ... tried-once

Latest Livery "Boeing's first 747-8 Freighter set for customer delivery is out in the open, primed in gray, at the wide-body plant in Everett. Liz Matzelle has more photos. Cargolux will take the first delivery, currently scheduled for the fourth quarter of this year." http://blog.seattle...

I found a video lecture on the Turbo Encapsulator. While it is not directly related to your math problem, it might provide some perspective.

http://www.global-air.com/global/encabulator.htm

Successful wing stress test conducted to 150% - http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/library/787ultimatewing-2.jpg Boeing flexed the wings of its 787 static-test airframe upward by approximately 25 feet. Several weeks of analysis and review are required to confirm the test was a success, Randy Tinset...

Cars can be switched "without air." To explain, the air brake system is configured so that each car has various equipment including a complex control valve and a split reservoir. These components are pressurized by the train line (the pipe that runs from the locomotive to the cars via flex...

Here are some photographs of the accident scene. It appears several freight cars rolled down hill into the port, running off the end of the track, through a building and into the harbor. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/features/article_1543486.php/In-Pictures-Norway-Train-Crash Several...

Starts with the Captain at the magazine rack:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sp-BYkO ... _embedded#

More Trouble: Excerpt: On the 787: "We've got a very aggressive flight-test program in front of us. We're going to have six airplanes flying. We have to fly those airplanes around 90 hours a week. ... So far it's progressing well." "Three are flying right now we've got a fourth airpla...

The following video from 1938 provides an interesting perspective on the operation and maintenance of the New York Central Railroad's famed Hudson locomotive. Here is a photo of one of them for reference. http://www.yesteryeardepot.com/NYC5412.JPG http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_ywPGzD5E&featu...

See link with video Excerpt: A test explosion on a Boeing 747 has shown that a US Christmas Day flight would have landed safely even if a bomb on board was detonated successfully. The plane's fuselage did not break in the controlled blast, which used the same explosives that were on Flight 253 from ...

Uncle Sam does not like to be embarrassed.

An editorial: The United States, a nation of 300 million, won nine gold medals this year in the Winter Olympics. Norway, a nation of 4.7 million, also won nine. This was no anomaly. Over the years, Norwegians have won more gold medals in Winter Games, and more Winter Olympics medals over all, than p...

Here is BBC article on some new google sat images of the site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8530165.stm

Nice. Normal procedure with a diesel electric is to limit speed to 5 mph or less when water is on top of the rail and not travel at all if the water is 3 inches or more above the rail. I wonder how long that locomotive continued to operate prior to some painful electricl problems.

Perhaps this can help.

Here is an interesting blog including phots of the interior of the test plane (water ballast tanks, monitoring stations) and discusison about the excellent performance on the first flight. Excerpts: Feuerstein made some quick calculations and realized they would have much more fuel remaining than ex...

Interesting. When talking about male sexual organs, they don't use any anagram....

Indeed.
http://forums.jetphotos.net/showthread.php?t=49587

Thanks, would like to see. The link posted above includes some new video clips of the tests. According to the following, first flight remains scheduled for February 8. Excerpt: Boeing (BA) completed taxi tests on the first 747-8 Freighter today, the company said in a statement. With Chief Pilot Mark...

According to the following link, taxi tests will be conducted Saturday February 6.

http://www.airlinereporter.com/2010/02/ ... ing-today/