RIP Jimmy Carter. One of the last of the good people, who went into US politics for the right reasons, and who also achieved an awful lot after leaving office rather then simply looking to make himse… (View Post)

Fingers crossed for a knighthood for Jason Beer in the New Year’s Honours list. (View Post)

Good luck with the book! Here’s a graph of commercial aviation fatalities, which has now basically trended to zero even as the number of flights has risen exponentially. If you want a model of an ind… (View Post)

Indeed so. Ask Boeing how the last couple of decades of replacing engineers with MBAs in the management grades has gone. That said, the graph of commercial aviation accidents over time is utterly ast… (View Post)

Absolutely. Transport accidents pretty much stopped happening because the NTSB (in the UK the AAIB and RIAB) investigates every incident and accident, and makes recommendations aimed at preventing th… (View Post)