No snakes on that plane...

(Written on 2019/02/08)(Permalink)

What a horrible thing to have to listen to; I'm glad it isn't my job, and hope it doesn't become public.

(Written on 2019/01/25)(Permalink)

Perhaps it was not the chaff itself, but its (possibly incendiary) dispensing system that was the safety concern.

(Written on 2018/12/14)(Permalink)

Freebird!

(Written on 2018/12/07)(Permalink)

I can definitely see this as an accident. Somewhere, someone typed "CATHAY PACIIC" into a program, and that's all she wrote. An enormous plotter started cutting out pieces of vinyl far too large to read as a whole, producing a stack of sections. The team applying it started at the right end so it could be aligned with the door and end of the windows, and worked backward through the name. The letters are 4' high, and the workers were within a foot or two handling the floppy material; they couldn't see more than a couple of letters at a time. Then, when done, they turned their backs and went on to their next tasks.

(Written on 2018/09/21)(Permalink)

Yup: just use $100 bills for... wait a minute...

(Written on 2018/05/18)(Permalink)

You mean, the guy who had been leaning on the conveyor belt? He also didn't seem to react much to the impact. (Guess they've seen it all...)

(Written on 2018/05/18)(Permalink)

I like the guy standing in front of his truck on the bottom-left of the video. He just watches the whole thing, with no reaction to the impact. Just another day at the office.

(Written on 2018/05/18)(Permalink)

How feasible is it to suddenly depressurize a plane, even from the cockpit?

(Written on 2018/05/14)(Permalink)

It's a reasonable question, "specific purpose" or not. You can't say that there will never be a need or desire to have it land other than at its home base.

(Written on 2018/04/20)(Permalink)