. . . a follow-up, - Did you understand why the Star Trek Next Generation TV series intro was changed from "where no man has gone before" to "where no-one has gone before"?

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It was Charles Rice's calling it "best . . in all of advertising" that shocked me because it indicated praise for its outdated attitude.Today obviously no slogan would state "Wings of Man". It would be so ridiculously unacceptable, not "best", it would rightly be the end of who approved of it.

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He died in the 18th century! He reflected his time in his language; his content is of his age for which we make allowances.

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"best"??? Seriously?! You actually praise that? Surely you're joking! Nobody, Taliban and ilk excepted, still lives or thinks in that ludicrous male-dominant way.

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Oh the memories! Very well presented; I've bookmarked that website. Looking forward to Part two.

(Written on 2019/12/13)(Permalink)

Your joy would be my nightmare. For me, take-offs, departures, approaches and landings are the essence of interest and pleasure for avgeek me.

(Written on 2019/12/07)(Permalink)

On the matter of AF447, I highly recommend the book "Understanding Air France" by Bill Palmer https://tinyurl.com/y2q49rc5 . It takes the reader on the flight as if an observer and, well, pilots also must have the guts to declare, "I'm not OK to fly" when that's the case.

(Written on 2019/11/01)(Permalink)

This particular situation prompts my general concern. I've read that, unlike in the past, demand for pilots now far exceeds the number of people who have a real vocation to be a pilot. Thus the number of those who are hired who have any instinctive reactive ability to "fly the damn airplane" when necessary are precious few. Therefore must civil aviation overall, including airplane designers, urgently adjust so the the airplane by default "flies its damn self" with the flight crew being simply educated on-site caretakers of the automation?

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Is there a cancer-causing radiation issue too?

(Written on 2019/10/29)(Permalink)

It must take big bucks and big wotsits to be there defending an obviously hazard-prone kludge approved to overcome a panicked competition-driven over-powered, inherently unstable design. (I'd be nice if he had a Boeing test pilot at his side!)

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