You demand to see "the science," but then spend the rest of your comment showing your ignorance of how science actually works. This is a NEW VIRUS. Investigation of this virus is ongoing, and thus recommendations based on new findings may be different from old findings. Also, it has been fairly openly reported that they had to make their recommendations not in a vacuum, but within the confines of the realities of PPE supply at the time. They knew that if they recommended everyone start wearing masks, the first thing people would do is go buy up every single N95 mask, leaving none for medical professionals. That ended up happening anyways, unfortunately. You had well-intentioned people basically wasting N95 masks that could have been used by medical professionals. My wife works in a long-term care facility, and she was issued a cloth mask in March as her employer could not procure any N95 masks at the time. It took until May before they were able to provide an N95 mask (1 per day) fo

(Written on 31/07/2020)(Permalink)

H1N1 killed 12,469 people in the US out of the nearly 61 million that it infected. The chances of dying from H1N1 was 0.02%. Worldwide, COVID-19 has killed (as of the moment I'm writing this) 11,311 people out of the 272,367 confirmed cases worldwide. That is a 4% death rate, or 200x more deadly. But there's not enough testing you say? Ok, fine, let's say there's an order of magnitude more cases than have been reported and all of those folks have survived or will survive. That is still a 0.4% rate of death for this virus. That's 20x more deadly than H1N1. If we cannot stop the spread of the virus and the entire US population gets the virus, then we're looking at over 1 million deaths at a 0.4% death rate. THAT is why your comment is wrong. YOU are the ignorant one. I don't know where you are getting your news, but you should clearly choose a different source.

(Written on 20/03/2020)(Permalink)

How willfully ignorant can you be at this point? There are videos available showing the man politely telling these "security officers" that he would not be deplaning as he is rightfully in the seat. No yelling or anything.

(Written on 14/04/2017)(Permalink)

I take it you haven't seen the videos that have since been posted showing the man being very polite before being brutalized by airport security. The man was not obnoxious in the slightest. He simply refused to give up his seat as he had already boarded.

(Written on 14/04/2017)(Permalink)

You're literally commenting on an article about the Obama administration fighting FOR GA and trying to blame this on Obama. SMH.. there's nothing you can't figure out some way to blame on Obama. Seriously, this is the Obama administration telling Santa Monica that they're not going to get their way and that the airport is staying open. But sure, it's Obama's fault.

(Written on 19/08/2016)(Permalink)

The bad design is the fact that they didn't implement it in a way that minimized or eliminated the noise in the cabin. It makes passengers uncomfortable, whether because they don't understand what the noise is and think something is going wrong, or just because they're annoyed by the annoying sound. Old tech or new tech, Airbus could have done a better job of designing the system.

(Written on 12/09/2014)(Permalink)

What about the sound that continues for a few minutes in to the flight? That annoying sound is the first reason I avoid A320 flights when I have a choice. It's just bad design on Airbus's part to subject passengers to that noise (especially when Boeing manages to not have that noise in the 737.

(Written on 12/09/2014)(Permalink)

Glad I got to visit the Spruce Goose this summer. I did the "VIP" tour that allowed me to sit in the same seat that Howard Hughes piloted the plane from on its only flight. What an amazing moment. Hopefully, the museum won't be shut down and liquidated.

(Written on 03/01/2014)(Permalink)

Ah, and I see that you're now copy/pasting replies to yourself now.

(Written on 27/04/2012)(Permalink)

There's no easy answer for this issue. Anything placed in front of the intake will, by design be more restrictive than the completely open design currently in place. Maybe put some blades to slice the bird up in to pieces that are less likely to hurt the engine?

(Written on 27/04/2012)(Permalink)