nutcracker46

Smith is spot on with his analysis of why no number of mods and modules will make the 737 into a 757.

Here on HN I have ranted about the wobbly bobbly handling, obsolete hydraulics, and noisy crappy cockpit of the 73, versus the modern and comfortable 75.

Pay attention to what the article says about takeoff and landing performance. We used to load the 75 heavily for trips between NY La Guardia and Chicago Midway, or Midway to Washington National. We could NOT load a 737-NG heavily due to field length or climb limits. Boeing made a bad, bad decision to push the 737 instead of advancing a fresh design.

Just wait and watch. They won't abandon the 737 until one or two more are lost due to runway overruns or something else related to its shortcomings. That is WITH better than average pilots, all the sooner to happen with typical ab initio crews.

Deleted only from the web controlled by the Peopple's Republic of China. You can still access South Park from the Republic of China and elsewhere.

(Look what I did there: two countries, not one.)

Cat and mouse indeed, but here we see that a GPS spoof can be detected and spoofs can be made more and more difficult to accomplish.

It will get down to a game of knowing the satellites better and better, in terms of their clocks, orbits, and drifts in those parameters. With the increasing precision of augmentation, spoofers will be hard pressed to keep up and precisely mimic more parameters.

Wumao, you misspelled "hostile foreign forces" in your CCP propaganda reply.

You will never accept the fact of domestic resistance to your government's infringement on basic rights all people are born with - even Chinese people.

Hong Kong, Taiwan, and ethnic Chinese around the world live well with democratic governance, free speech, free press, and no communist big brother police state.

More fascist propaganda from the far right extremists in power in the USA. The situation has nothing to do with treason nor goes much beyond racist demands to "go back to Asia where you belong."

Too bad the electrical grid is so centralized.

In addition to celestial navigation, there was very precise radio based ranging between tracking stations and the spacecraft. You could call it a precursor to GPS, where a pseudo-random noise was transmitted in the microwave signal to the spacecraft. The spacecraft sent back that PRN stream on its microwave downlink to Earth.

I have forgotten how precise and accurate the tracking data was, but it was more than enough for the missions.

NASA would take measurements and then uplink nav data to the guidance computers as necessary. With that and periodic celestial position fixes, there was no getting lost on the journey.

"Just don't screw up a procedure or have a burn go bad and everything will be okay."

San Francisco and Los Angeles are the future of California. California is the future of the United States.

Taiwanese have never been part of the People's Republic. Deal with that.

Those sinofascists also tell ethnic Chinese citizens of other countries that they are Chinese, and owe allegiance to the People's Republic. Not much different from Nazi Germany's expectations of ethnic Germans living abroad.

Except that the Chinese citizens feel extreme offense and hurt feelings when told that some Chinese are not citizens and don't owe a damn thing to the People's Republic.

All persons are created equal, but some more equal than others. It is the more equal persons who will inherit the earth when the less equal die.

Boilerplate! Huawei is obligated to serve the communist party. Huawei is CCP through and through, intrinsic like stink on shit. Therefore, Huawei security is an oxymoron.

It has been said that I expend considerable bandwidth harping on China and Russia for their gangster-like, authoritarian ways. To be truthful, I still have reserve harping capacity for other rat-assed illiberal states:

Fuck those Pakis too, for being intolerant of dissent. Like their big brothers selling the illusion of a "civilizational state," they will remain "flyover countries."

Taylor fit perfectly into rhetoric forming the GOP "Southern Strategy."

I ask for a spanking or oral reprimand...

Mankind, all of the other things which have lived, all of the things which ever live, and even the rocky Earth itself are made of the same ancient material older than the Sun.

Fuckin' bloody hell: even Trump is made of the same. No less and no more.

Hey, Yves Smith... The chopper crews were correct: don't take your kids to war. War is not about fairness, but about killing. If that is distasteful, then consider making a greater effort to avoid armed conflict, including insurgency and terrorism.

It fits the intesests of those aurhoritarian, so called "civilizational states" to cast doubt on progressive tech in liberal democracies. At home, Russia dictates,"build out 5G infrastructure." In the West, the propaganda questions, "Are you sure 5G is safe? Also, are those vaccines safe? Pest resistant crops, whoah, you're gonna eat them? You might die."

Civilizational states. For all of the throwbacks who would rather see the world regress 300 years than enjoy the progress and peace brought by globalization.

To Balkanize the planet? To let Trump, Putin, and Xi run the world? To bloody hell with the three of them. This is the kind of bullshit that makes really big wars.

Get the nukes ready, all of them.

Those well paid shills at FP should heed Yogi Berra's words: "Predicting is difficult, especially for the future." You don't know what is going to happen.

What? You can't guarantee employment. You can guarantee death and taxes. Do the efficient thing: eliminate the vast welfare bureaucracy and simply pay basic income. While you're at it, eliminate a great deal of tax bureacracy and change to a flat tax on consumption.

The 737 is not a plane you want for landing or taking off in heavy rain. Visibility is shitty even with the wipers set to high. On top of that, no plane is one you want if there's windshear.

Want to land with heavy rain on the airfield? "Don't do it. Divert or hold if you can..."

Tune in, turn on, drop the fuck out. Otherwise, find a way to stay in the world.

Double down on basics you have missed in the past, including mathematics and logic. Learn more about what end users need and code to meet those needs.

Parents, educators, and older siblings need to own some of that suicide rate, for not teaching reality. Scoring low on an exam is not the end, but instead a situation that must be handled. Learn how the fuck to survive disappointment.

Everyone is NOT going to get top grades. In fact, if you look at percentiles, someone has to be on the bottom.

Instead, consider a test score as an indicator of strengths and weaknesses but not an all encompassing measurement of a person. Easy to say, right? Look at the bigger picture of a person and it becomes obvious how much of a waste it is to not teach young people to look at the bigger picture and deal with life on that basis.

Kids, you have four options: Accept / get better / retest / change path.

Traders, don't cover your Boeing shorts just yet. Let those shares sink just a little more for good measure. Boeing, where did your buybacks and Frankenstein 737 upgrade take you? What about the engineering and marketing choice to lowball the MCAS? FAA, what about that Trump admin policy of minimal oversight and regulation, with foxes guarding the hen house?

Good luck with those lawsuits.

What were they thinking, Boeing and the ops inspectors for Soutwest? Imprudent, lax management who fails to aggresively defend safety is just as dangerous a pilot who decides not to address a malfunction.

A "fifth risk" scenario is what you get from shitbox staffing in the executive branch of the government. Go ahead. Fail and refuse to manage risk and see what happens.

Go ahead and villify the media for a situation the Americans have brought on themselves, just as the first civil war was self- inflicted.

You either believe and adhere to your founding principles or you don't. Are all people CREATED EQUAL or are they not? Does the bill of rights apply to everyone within the country or does it not?

If you want a country where oligarchs and tycoons get preferential treatment, look to emulate Russia. If you want a country dedicated to one race, one culture, and one party rule, you can emulate China.

Americans killed each other in vast numbers during the first civil war, to create a country that exported security and interstate integration to world (call it globalization). If you want to abandon that and let neo Nazis, flat earthers and anti-vaxers create a homeland then go for it.

Political chemo therapy is unpleasant, but each American gets to suffer a dose or two.

Best of luck creating that stall-proof airliner...

It is easy to be shills for Marxism and blame the United States, but such blame is hollow. Venezuela is in its dire condition because it, like its Russian, Cuban, and Chinese allies, is led by a Mafia pretending to be a government.

I hope Mauduro's government can follow the Soviet path and fail, so the Venezuelan people may have a chance to establish self governance instead of a dictatorship.