The Great Drone Hoax of 2024
We are a nation of idiots.
Drones: The Great Drone Hoax of 2024
Good chance there are no nefarious drones, just as in the mid-west 2020 drone hysteria, or the Gatwick Airport fiasco.
Climate: Climate conferences hypocritically among biggest carbon emitters
Private aircraft flown to climate conferences are among the largest carbon emitters on earth.
Aviation: Skyryse uses smart control system to make flying easier
Worth watching – impressive and about time:
Climate: # of passenger jets to double over next 20 years
Does this mean we are not banning air travel? Airline fleets to double in new blow to flight-shamers
Security: Doing math on board aircraft is dangerous
This really happened - an economist working on differential equations was temporarily removed from an airline flight because passenger thought he must be a terrorist.
Climate: Lufthansa to add up to 72 Euro charge per fight, on average
European aviation giant Lufthansa Group is to introduce a new “environmental cost surcharge” of up to €72 per flight to cover part of the cost of complying with new green…
Climate: Obviously, turbulence has gotten much worse
Lots of noise claiming turbulence has gotten worse. Except not.
Aviation: Singapore Airlines “turbulence” incident
The Singapore Airlines "turbulence" incident might turn out to be caused by something else. But we won't know until an investigation is completed.
Aviation: “We hit a drone” – nope, you hit a bird
"We hit a drone", said B737MAX pilots. Nope, it turns out they hit a bird. Either that or a piece falling off a Boeing aircraft :)
Drones: We need Remote ID for all birds ASAP
Goose found in flight control system of medical helicopter that crashed in Oklahoma last month, killing 3 (nbcnews.com)
Aviation: Why on board WiFi doesn’t work sometimes
Why you cannot get WiFi to work onboard airliners - they need to reset the system to clear the DHCP leases.
Aviation: 1 in 3 Americans think they could land an airliner
Hmmmm..."A survey published in January shows about one-third of adult Americans think they can safely land an airliner with the help of air traffic control"
Aviation: Trevor Jacob sentenced to 6 months in Federal prison
He deliberately crashed a plane in an elaborate stunt to generate views to sell advertising. His story fell apart when Youtube viewers observed numerous irregularities in his saga. Eventually he…
Climate: You should post on social media when you avoid air travel
Even more reasons we must mostly prohibit flying. It's Science.