far too large for manual operation
As are the sails on many large recreational yachts. Power furling systems are quite common.
It makes me wonder how easily the crew can reduce sail area during a storm
"The crew" (skipper) just pushes a button. From there, it's how fast the hydraulics can work.
I would be surprised that the pilot could l had time to do more then try to correct the roll. Already with the stick back climbing, it's looking like they were 7-12 seconds airborne to crash. Probably never really knew what happened.
those ports will need to be discontinued
Alas, poor Debian. I knew him
why don't we require huge buffer zones around an airport?
It's cheap land. But often not owned by the port authority that builds the airport. If the PA had to acquire buffer zones, nothing would ever get built. So the land remains in private hands. And the uses it is put to are often low rent. Like warehouses, scrap metal yards, dive bars, etc.
Reminds me of the trouble ticket/mechanics responses that made such humorous reading:
Flight crew: Engine No. 1 is missing.
Maintenance: Found Engine No. 1 on the left wing where it's supposed to be.
Seriously, "lost an engine" can mean so many different things.
To paraphrase: Bureaucrats conduct meetings both because they appear to be busy when they are meeting
I've worked on projects where maybe 5 people were actually contributed to the effort. But 100 people would show up for progress meetings. And those 95 people would have no input other than not liking the font I had used on my presentation.
ADHD people don't like making eye contact? No problem, boss. You can have that camera on your laptop staring at you all day.
Even if it worked, you're thinking the pilot could, in 5 seconds at best, decide between attempting to climb out, finding a less lethal course to suffer the crash with minimized ground casualties, or immediately dive into the nearest obstacle to contain the damage in some way.
Nope. The flight crew may have even trusted the #3 engine failure was not real, but instrumentation failure. The roll would prove them wrong, but too late to change anything. They were already in uncontrolled flight. No recovery.
This isn't like US1549 , where they had double-digit seconds to evaluate the failures. And even then they 27 seconds to decide they could not return to any airport. This accident did not seem to last 27 seconds in total.
If this is caused by engine disassembly, we can expect inspections and both corrective and preventative actions to be mandated. What else could they do?
It arrived in Baltimore carrying Renault vehicles
Oh boy! The Deux Chevauxs have arrived.
They could turn that into a profit center. Much like the Texas civil courts have done.
Nah. I walk in to Home Depot, don't find what I want and just walk out the exit door. No problems. Sometimes I even walk out the entrance door.
It's nice to live in a town without homeless bums.
Presumably, the customers of Nexperia (auto makers) have contracts for the delivery of product. Now the company decides not to honor those contracts. What do you expect the country having jurisdiction over that company and those contracts to do?
Early testing show that the cars were too easy to drive.
Put in stickshifts. With dog box transmissions.
One that can't be made obsolete when the manufacturers get bored with it.
Then think long and hard about IKEA. For many product lines, they seem to discontinue stuff frequently. If you bought one piece of furniture or light fixture, figure "Gee. That looks nice" and go back for matching pieces: Sorry. No longer available.
I think they work a lot like Costco. Make a deal for a few container loads of something, slap a wierd name on it and put it in stores. Once their stock is finished, no more. I have had some luck in finding the original manufacturer and ordering through Aliexpress. But that will remain difficult until after Trump's third term
Potemkin data centers?
EARTH smog | bricks AIR -- mud -- FIRE soda water | tequila WATER
