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Recently, Bill Whittle and Scott Ott dealt with a number of charges leveled against President Trump about the cost of raising tariffs against China for its thieving business practices. In that segment Bill eloquently (and in my opinion, fairly) describes the issues that many complain about farmers receiving too much government and other payoffs when […]
With Flag Day tomorrow, I’m reminded of a U.S.A. flag towed by an Australian parachutist named Dave Benson from Queensland, who jumped from my airplane (a 1951 Cessna 170A with its right door removed) twice at the Watsonville Fly-in & Airshow in 1999 and twice from my airplane at the Napa Valley Airshow in late […]
When I was in Norway in 1997, I traveled to Preikestolen “Pulpit Rock” on the Lysefjord. It is a slab of rock not yet fallen that sits on a cliff 2000 feet straight above the fjord. My Norwegian air traffic controller cousin and I sat on the edge of the rock with our feet dangling […]
Here is another item from Rich Sugden about how pitch stabilizers work on large aircraft like the Boeing 737-8 MAX, which crashed in Ethiopia and the Lion Air flight from Indonesia that crashed into the Pacific prior to that. It does a good job describing how those systems work and how these most-recent iterations, i.e. […]
Yet another contribution gratis Rich Sugden: For those interested in the recent spate of accidents involving Boeing’s newest 737 variant, the real story of what is going on behind the scenes is largely not being reported.It was interesting to note that President Trump alluded to the problem in a round about way, but unless you […]
Below is compliments of fellow Bill Whittle member and pilot, Rich Sugden: MCAS Certification Flawed: Report RUSS NILES The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation (MCAS) system at the center of investigations into two fatal crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 was misunderstood and mischaracterized in a flawed certification process as Boeing and […]
A pilot friend sent me this URL to a YouTube video that seems very instructive about how the various automatic horizontal stabilizer systems interrelate and how that seems to link the cause of both the Ethiopian crash with the Lion Air Java Sea crash earlier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgkmJ1U2M_Q&feature=youtu.be I’ll update more when anything comes my way.