ever hear of Gbadolite?

(Written on 2018/08/11)(Permalink)

there was also the "prestige project" working for it, then against it: it was a "peaceful competition" with the superpowers' Tu-144 and B2707: this was the same impulse behind things like Ariane, TGV, Airbus but also Aramis and Aérotrain, that'd maintain France's status as a Great Power post-colonialism

(Written on 2018/08/11)(Permalink)

the pic they Tweeted was ... pretty explicit ...

(Written on 2018/08/07)(Permalink)

"MBNA Joe" Biden (so "odd reason" is apt)

(Written on 2018/03/31)(Permalink)

hey, if government intervention in the market was good enough for Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek ...

(Written on 2018/03/02)(Permalink)

and if they're not canceled, they're bumped, delayed, driven back while the pilot's on the phone arguing with dispatch basically commercial air is being forced to serve the niche that passenger/high-speed rail does in other countries, like how buses awkwardly pretend to be light rail as "BRT"; it just ends up the worst of both worlds

(Written on 2018/02/24)(Permalink)

a ball spiked back at you at 150 kt?

(Written on 2017/07/29)(Permalink)

like the health insurers, they can only act the way they've been because of their captive market foreign competition might put a dent in the service gap, but without HSR it's still a malformed system where planes have to be dedicated to short, money-losing hops to keep the hubs supplied with passengers

(Written on 2017/06/16)(Permalink)

and check the wind angle or you'll incinerate the cabin like British Airtours 28M

(Written on 2017/06/16)(Permalink)

also, QEII insisted on chauffeuring King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at high speeds to freak him out as well

(Written on 2017/05/20)(Permalink)