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by kayfox 7y ago
AoA sensors are notoriously unreliable and Boeing should not have depended on just one.
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by kayfox 7y ago
So... I said the design was bad and your saying I'm not harsh enough in that? Are we trying to solve engineering problems by getting emotional about them or something?
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by kayfox 7y ago
The general idea was that pilots would correctly recognize large amounts of undesired and uncommanded trim being runaway trim and perform the checklist to resolve that issue that they are expected to know by memory, since there is a need to
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by kayfox 7y ago
Most of those reports involved the autopilot or were while flaps were extended, which disables MCAS. The ones that did not were complaining about not being informed about MCAS and not about it actuating. There were even incidents report
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by kayfox 7y ago
As far as anyone could tell, MCAS was not encountered before in the US.
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by kayfox 7y ago
To be more precise, Boeing assumed that all pilots flying their aircraft would be up to the standards of the United States as opposed to the different standards around the world.
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by kayfox 7y ago
In the race to use fancier and fancier tools to make web user interfaces go I think we loose out a lot by avoiding the browser's inbuilt support for these things. Like how eBay's new search feature does not allow me to click in it
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by kayfox 7y ago
This plant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanente_Quarry Which is not owned by Kaiser Permanente?
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by kayfox 7y ago
I don't see how this is any different than Cet5 cables made when 100Base-TX was the standard and now work with 1000Base-T at 10x the speed. The cable was marketed based on the available standards at the time and now theres faster sta
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by kayfox 7y ago
That's probably the DEFCON talk the parent poster is talking about: Massscanning the Internet - Defcon 22 (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOWexFaRylM
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by kayfox 7y ago
Yeah, now lots of vendors will have to explain that netcat is not NetCAT and that its okay to have netcat on their *nix distro.
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by kayfox 7y ago
I guess T carrier lines are better with 192 bits per frame.
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by kayfox 7y ago
The engines need to be overhauled and sometimes replaced several times over an aircraft's lifetime, so they are often swapped out and overhauled and then installed on another aircraft. Not only that, but some injection of new engines
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by kayfox 7y ago
"Revenge" in this case appears to be supporting her opponent... which doesn't sound like anything exceptional, it just sounds like politics. I was expecting to read stuff like her account being suspended, her staff being hara
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by kayfox 7y ago
It was designed lower to be easier to work with ground handling and servicing. This lead to a few different designs of plane-deployed airstairs and made it popular with Alaska Air and other airlines serving small airports. https:/&#
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by kayfox 7y ago
Yes, but you said body and not wing.
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by kayfox 7y ago
The 757 sits a good 4 feet higher with the same fuselage diameter.
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by kayfox 7y ago
I'm going to go for the check, because its something I can frame.
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by kayfox 7y ago
And in a non bulleted sentence below that it notes that 1 million Canadians social insurance numbers were also compromised.
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by kayfox 7y ago
B&H is certainly better, but I've occasionally gotten something that was obviously open box from them and its always a bit of a pain to convince them this is a problem. It came to a head recently complete with a salty response fr
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by kayfox 7y ago
Godspeed, Christopher Kraft, you left our tiny marble a better place than when you came. We will ever strive to meet you dedication to the cause of exploration for all mankind.
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by kayfox 7y ago
> Making this situation worse, the matched phone number was not listed on the account’s profile, nor in the “Download Your Information” archive obtained from Facebook [5]; Huh, that sounds like a GDPR violation?
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by kayfox 7y ago
The submitter's history suggests they try to submit every xkcd comic.
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by kayfox 7y ago
Theres a decent number of people who use Winlink as a substitute for Sailmail and thusly are in violation of 97.113(a)5.
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by kayfox 7y ago
Expanding on what sciurus said, theres four major issues with Winlink: 1) It uses proprietary PACTOR III and IV modems that only one company makes. This means to monitor Winlink you need to shell out thousands of dollars for a modem. 2) P
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by kayfox 7y ago
Southern California has a dearth of available repeater pairs because of the massive amount of repeaters in use.
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by kayfox 7y ago
"Gave up" in this case consists of a certain party's legislative membership fleeing to Idaho to deny quorum.
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by kayfox 7y ago
It may be a violation if it involved a business transaction that was not related to ham radio equipment. Buying, selling and trading equipment related to ham radio is the only exception to the rule against business transactions that I am
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by kayfox 7y ago
So, Boeing is using a storage area... as a storage area? That parking lot was intended to be used to store planes, its clear from how they constructed it out of the land that Plant 2 sat on they intended to store planes there, thats what Bo
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by kayfox 7y ago
The issues identified so far are solvable, and the solutions are being throughly tested. I'm pretty sure that if the FAA were to, for some reason, decide no 737MAX can be flown ever again, literally every airline owning one would be su

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