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Sounds like they are serious this time and they want to do it quickly. If you are a young A-10 pilot it sounds like you will be twiddling your thumbs waiting on a retraining slot!

Good video from Ward Carrol about the projected retirement of the A-10 and its effects on pilot training and GFM.

China Eastern Flight 5735 crash now declared a “State Secret”! Almost three years ago a China Eastern 737-800 (not a Max) plunged near vertical into a muddy hillside. There was no indication of any mechanical failure and looked more likely as a result of suicide or hijacking. https://loyaltylobby.com/2025/06/28/china-declares-the-true-cause-of-china-eastern-mu5735-accident-a-state-secret-pilot-suicide/

An Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed into a crowded construction site shortly after TO out of Ahmedabad, India. This is the first major hull loss for the 787.

I think you hit the nail on the head on what is the biggest obstacle in building these type of specialized aircraft.

Mover and Gonky’s take on it:

I have seen other super airlifter proposals come and go so take this with a grain of salt. This one is designed for outsized cargo like ever increasing windmill blades and rocket stages so who knows it might actually get built! https://radia.com

During the height of the Cold War the Soviet war plan with Sweden was to send in Speznaz teams to kill Swedish fighter pilots!

Dos Gringos is back and having a concert this summer! https://www.truefans.fm/the-afterburn-podcast/681bab62e04604441221174e

It looks like their population figures might be just like many of their buildings, nothing more than “Tofu Dreg”! I have seen several videos which calls into question whether their claim of a population of 1.4 billion is way overinflated. Chinese Netizens have noted how empty both the city’s and countryside are empty of people compared to how crowded they used to be when the population was at 1.2 billion.

My bad, I thought the slats were on A and the flaps on B, but both slats and flaps are on B and the flaps can be electrically lowered like on the 727.

According to Juan Brown’s video both A and B were turned off during descent and prior to flap extension. They immediately punched off the Master Caution light and obviously missed what the Master Caution was for. The Autopilot will not engage with both systems de-powered.

The preliminary report of the Swift Air 737-400 crash in Vilnius has come out and the report indicates that the Pilot Monitoring (which was the Captain) accidentally shut off Hydraulic Systems A and B while trying to turn on the Engine Anti-ice. Both the Anti-ice and Hydraulic systems use the same lever-lock switches instead of red guarded switches for the hydraulics seen on other aircraft and the hydraulic switches are just below the switches for the Engine Anti-ice. The overhead panel layout shares the legacy design of the first 737 produced which had the option of having a Flight Engineer who would sit in the jumpseat. The overhead panel allowed easy access to the controls from the jumpseat but can be awkward from either pilot seat. Furthermore the Captain probably neglected to observe the blue Anti-Ice indicators come on indicating the Anti-ice valves opened and most likely just moved the levers by feel as he was monitoring the approach. Both pilots missed a vital clue as well since they could not engage the Autopilot with both A and B Systems shut down.