1) is counterintuitively not necessarily true. Aircraft have very little drag during the initial phase of their takeoff run. It's only when you reach takeoff speed and rotate that the drag becomes an… (View Post)

I think the video evidence is increasingly showing that they did have flaps extended. I've read plausible suggestions that the landing gear wasn't quite in the fully down position, as if it had just … (View Post)

I wouldn't say he "got all the big calls right". He didn't. However during Covid, compared to all the other available politicians at the time, Boris's calls were far better, as was observab… (View Post)

No idea on aircraft, but in the railway world, it's not unusual for the most problematic unit of a class to become the depot "Christmas tree", as a conveniently located pile of spare parts.… (View Post)

That's one of the maddest suggestions I've heard for a while. Think about the logic for a moment. Imagine you run a widget factory, employing 100 people. Unfortunately, there is a downturn in the wid… (View Post)