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In case anyone has forgotten who the bad guys are: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/europe/ukrainian-journalist-russia-torture-intl

Ice Age. Now you've triggered the climate change crowd...jeez.

I loved her in The Fifth Element!

Where in the video did he say both A & B? The video you posted above the guy basically starts immediately and says Sys B was switched off and then around at 2 minutes he talks only about Sys B again...and again at 5:26 in the video he says Sys B. If the incident Captain turned off FOUR switches trying to turn on the TWO anti-ice switches...then he really needs to be drug tested.

More meat into the grinder. https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-ordered-conscript-160000-more-russians-army-spring/

I've momentarily turned Sys B off when I meant for the Anti-Ice. The master caution light comes on for HYD, you say I'm dumb, and turn it back on. From your text, Sys A never got turned off, otherwise it would be really weird for the PM to flip 4 switches when he meant to do 2. New copilot and a weak Captain didn't help this error train, but I will say, from a human factors perspective, that having white colored tips or the same shape for all those switches isn't a great idea.

Based on the poster...they dropped MIG-25s too!

If Boeing's past performance is an indicator of future performance...this will definitely be on time and under budget. /sarcasm

You forgot: 1a. Manipulate slides to make it look like everything is green by lying/changing denominator to get boss promoted

Restarting the KC-135 line was never going to happen. Little known fact, outside of the tanker TOAD community, is the -135 isn't even a 707 airframe. It's the 367-80 (B-717/720), which shares very little in common with the 707 besides general appearance. Completely different fuselage and wing.

NTSB Released today: Read the Investigation Preliminary report. Read the NTSB's urgent recommendation report on mitigating the risk of midair collisions at DCA. Some highlights that popped out to me: At 2047:40, the crew of flight 5342 received an automated traffic advisory from the airplane’s traffic alert and collision avoidance system (TCAS) system stating, “Traffic, Traffic.” At this time, the aircraft were about 0.95 nm apart, as shown in Figure 3. At 2045:30, PAT25 passed over the Memorial Bridge. CVR data revealed that the IP told the pilot that they were at 300 ft and needed to descend. The pilot said that they would descend to 200 ft. The PAT25 FDR indicated that the radio altitude of the helicopter at the time of the collision was 278 ft and had been steady for the previous 5 seconds. At 2047:58, or 1 second before impact, flight 5342 began to increase its pitch. FDR data showed the airplane’s elevators were deflected near their maximum nose up travel. And the airplane rolled about 450°, impacting the water in an approximate 45° nose- low attitude with a left roll about 90°. PAT was at least 60 feet high...not sure if those helicopter routes are supposed to be AGL or MSL, but DCA is only 14 ft field elevation but either way they were high. The CRJ must have seen the PAT too late and applied full deflection. How terrible that must have been for the passengers and crew before impact.

The "Zelensky is a dictator/wont hold an election" talking point is taken in such bad faith. It's in their constitution. Also, how does one hold a free and fair election while a significant amount of their population/territory is occupied? How do you account for citizens of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson? I'd imagine they are all voting pro-Putin right now. Not saying there isn't a lot of valid criticism you can throw at this conflict, our involvement, and Zelensky...but "he is a dictator because he suspended elections" is one of the more idiotic talking points.

Classic Boeing: https://www.twz.com/air/cracks-in-kc-46-pegusus-tankers-halt-all-deliveries

Fine, but I'd also like to Q3 the requirements branch that bought the R model engines without flat bottoms. The AF decided it was cheaper to Q3 people than add some breathing room to landing a, looks at calendar, 80 year old airplane. So if we hold the pilots responsible than I also want everyone else in the stupidity tree to be held to the same standard.