When we spend more than $2 billion a month on a war directed against terrorism with all the precision of a shotgun fired out of a window at midnight, you could argue that the sums required to secure what is in reality the nation’s clearly identifiable last line of defense against airline terrorism are paltry.
December 2009 Archives
Even veteran railway experts are baffled by the failure of four Eurostar trains that ground to a standstill in the middle of the Channel Tunnel this weekend, causing misery to thousands of travelers.
Investigators seem to have found at least 53 instances in which flight crews have faced control problems directly caused by flaws in the three exterior gauges, called pitot tubes.
It’s appalling that the British Airways staff who have the most direct responsibility for the care of passengers are the same people who are prepared to bring misery to them in this way. A strike is a crude instrument that frequently ends up delivering self-inflicted wounds to those who wield it.
Finally! Boeing's 787 Dreamliner takes to the air in its first test flight.
A few seconds after 1:35 a.m. on June 1 air traffic control made contact with Air France Flight 447 as it headed out from Rio to Paris over the south Atlantic. Flight 447 was never heard from or seen again.
Boeing has more or less committed itself to the first flight of its 787 Dreamliner next week. What’s really fascinating about this date is its historical linkage. The Wright Brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk was on December 17 and-of even greater import to Boeing-so was the first flight of the B-47 bomber in 1947.
As in the case of Flight 447, the airplane hit severe turbulence-so severe that the flight crew declared a “Mayday” emergency as they were 750 miles southwest of Cape Verde.
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