@CaptBob_Nomadic Agreed the cabin should be cooler but fwiw in a 200, unless you run the packs off the engines and sit there >45% N1, the APU will actually do a much better job than both motors at idle. APU is still weak though compared to a real jet.
Julien Bernard was excited to be riding on home roads today. Waving to fans, stopping to kiss his wife and say hi to his kids.
The UCI fined him 200CHF for “inappropriate behavior”.
@Pflax1 Used to fully agree. Still mostly do. Flip side: there’s a portion of me that is somewhat relieved that theoretically, an autonomous car doesn’t have hatred for a bike on the road. Assuming the machine sees you and knows to give you space, it will.
118 people will die on our roads today. Where is the outrage?
I’ve seen a lot of sensationalism around aviation lately. The fact is our aviation system is the safest in the world and all of us - investigators, regulators, airlines, employees, and manufacturers - are working to make sure it stays that way. I will say it again, the riskiest part your travel day is driving.
That does not mean we don’t have more to do to ensure safety in our skies. Our work is never done. But imagine what could happen if we were just as focused on eliminating death on our roads: we could achieve zero…together.
(Photo from North Las Vegas)
“We built cities all over America that are designed for automobiles and not designed for people... Our housing costs are high, in part because of the way that we've designed our cities."
- @GovDougBurgum North Dakota comments during the @NatlGovsAssoc winter meetings
3 weeks ago marked 15 years since Feb 12, 2009—the last multiple-fatality accident involving a U.S. passenger airliner (Part 121).
11.6 billion passengers have since boarded a scheduled U.S. airline flight, with just 2 passenger fatalities (Part 121: Southwest 1380; PenAir 3296)
You often hear about the fatality rate per 100 million or 1 billion passenger miles in transportation statistics, but over the last 15 years, U.S. airlines have averaged less than 1 fatality per passenger *light-year* traveled
It's #NationalPigDay! Dating back to the early 60s, a prank played by carriers in the Mediterranean was to surprise their relieving carrier by releasing greased pigs on the flight deck. This 1986 video is of a helicopter from USS America dropping off pigs on USS John F. Kennedy.