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Err, nope. The wings have to take massive loads in flight. They test one to destruction in a lab as part of the certification, and you wouldn’t believe the angle at which it actually breaks. https://… (View Post)

The “air pocket” is an area of relatively less dense air, caused by air masses hitting each other and causing the air to move in different directions. Planes don’t fly as well in this less dense air,… (View Post)

America has the opposite problem, where the judges are political appointees who apply the most partisan possible interpretation of any law to their side, often spuriously to buy the time it takes to … (View Post)

Best video yet of the Canadian plane crash this morning. From the cockpit of another plane, which is somewhat unusual but there was a howling wind and freezing conditions. https://x.com/airmainengine… (View Post)

What exactly is that ruling? My wife is not eligible for the Ukraine scheme, despite being Ukranian, because she wasn’t resident there at the start of the war. (View Post)