This gives a very good summary of why that 1960's installed cockpit is going to continue to be manufactured for decades yet

The Max will be the last 737 evolution... the A321neo XLR will likely be the last A320series evolution. Decades? Maybe 15 to 20 years...

There's a quite recent video too from Mentour Now! on the reasons which led Boeing to develop the 737 Max instead of the NMA (New Midsize Aircraft).

1. Airbus negotiated with a large American 737 customer to replace a 737NG fleet with A320neo. Boeing urgently needed a modern single-aisle aircraft with efficient engines.
   
2. No further "moonshot": newly developed plane and accompanied financial and engineering risks like the 787 because real-world issues will delay the introduction of each all-new plane.
   
3. Airbus eventually even lured major 737 customers with extremely favourable conditions to somehow force Boeing to build the 737 Max instead of the NMA because NMA would render Airbus' just 20..25 years old A320 design obsolete. Airbus back then also was (financially) incapable to design a further new plane (financial disaster A380; costly A350).
   

The usual story: moron + car = destruction.
Car hits house in Hampton Park, four people in hospital

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Upside down also!

A northern flat-earther hits reality down under?...

Shame about the house...

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Definitely a miss-placed flat-earther discovering that the earth spherical.

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‘Offensive’ Tattoos and Revealing Clothing Are Now on Spirit Airlines’ No-Fly List

The airline clarified (somewhat) the attire and appearance that might prevent passengers from being allowed to board or remain on a plane, a move that goes a step further than other major U.S. airlines.

You got to draw the line somewhere. I see the clothing issue as needing more coverage or appear to be painted on. The tattoos might make them some more money as bandages and coverup make up can be purchased from the air carrier.

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Lucky.

Driver and passenger survive as tree falls on car

Two people escaped unhurt when a tree fell on to their moving car during Storm Éowyn.

Lucky.

Driver and passenger survive as tree falls on car

Two people escaped unhurt when a tree fell on to their moving car during Storm Éowyn.

Un-believably un-lucky to be there just at that time.
And un-believably lucky to have gotten away with so little injury. If that parked car hadn't been there, i doubt they'd have been nearly as fortunate...

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I do like the last one about the London Underground.
Chinese engineers didn’t get he traffic light idea right.

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Visibility of max speed signs is overrated:

Elizabeth line train caught at double speed limit

An Elizabeth line train jolted causing some passengers to lose their footing after travelling at almost twice the speed limit, the rail safety investigator has revealed.

One passenger fell over after the Heathrow to Shenfield service passed a signal near Manor Park at 45mph (72km/h) instead of the recommended 25mph (40km/h) on 24 September 2024.

There was an "incorrectly placed, inconspicuous and dirty" speed limit sign, according to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB), [...]

Ridiculous!

And total uncaring jobsworths for having that silliness come to be.

AND a total failure of supervision and checks.


The accident report needs to insist upon procedural/management changes...


Another one of those "Should never have happened..." ...


Stay safe folks?
Martin

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Not Work, Fail - a somewhat derogatory branding of part of the UK's rail "management" infrastructure, the higher levels of which are manned by those who have been promoted beyond the level of their incompetence.

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Martin might enjoy this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v62kzDb_DW0

"Infective communication"......

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"Infective communication"......

Whatever communication may was "ineffective"...

The root cause is the pipe. It should have never been allowed in the first place to install such a temporary rubber pipe (with snap locks, attached with clamping rings!!!) immediately below rails through the track's ballast bed. If there would have been a larger diameter protective steel tube instead, drilled horizontally, deeper below the rails through the embankment which then would have encapsulate the temporary pipes, a leak could not have damaged the embankment. Yes... the costs... and time...

This is an ongoing investigation and will be some time before we know details of the who, when, why what caused this.
Everyone aboard an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter is feared dead
Updated 11:30 AM CST, January 30, 2025 wrote:

All 64 people aboard an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter were feared dead in what was likely to be the worst U.S. aviation disaster in almost a quarter century, officials said Thursday.

At least 28 bodies were pulled from the icy waters of the Potomac River after the helicopter apparently flew into the path of the jet late Wednesday as it was landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, officials said. The plane carried 60 passengers and four crew. Three soldiers were aboard the helicopter.

This is an ongoing investigation and will be some time before we know details of the who, when, why what caused this.

We know cause, eyeballs are fallible. Both aircraft were operating visually in good weather, tower verified with helicopter that they saw the jet and they would stay clear. Obviously they didn't. Line one of the report; "Failure to see and avoid." The majority of the report will attempt to explain why the eyeball didn't see or misidentified what it did see. Then there will be a section, a frequent repeat section, on how to reduce the chances of it happening again. Of course the Army will also produce a report with an eye to finding someone, still alive, to court-martial.

For ATC, the pilots, or the flight path planners?...

Note that there were two fixed wing aircraft in sight plus a third nearby... Which plane did the helicopter pilots think was the "CRJ"?

... And ATC gave them less than one minute to understand, identify, and act upon...


That was an overly busy far too confined conflict situation that was too dangerous to survive...

Fly safe folks?
Martin

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Flight path planners....
Vertical separation is normally 1000ft, but there are allowable exceptions.....
In this case there were two flight paths, more or less perpendicular to each other, the lower at a maximum altitude of 200ft and only for helicopters, with the higher approach to the runway, at 400ft. So the two should have missed, but it is being reported that the helicopter was climbing beyond its permitted 200ft......

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Flight path planners....

???

...but it is being reported that the helicopter was climbing beyond its permitted 200ft......

So, the heli pilot is to blame.

with the higher approach to the runway, at 400ft.

???

But CRJ was was on final approach for landing. He wouldn't approach at a level 400' until he reached the runway, and then drop vertically: civilian passenger jets can't do that. That's the error Trump made in his press conference - he looked at the scene in only two dimensions.

I'd like to see a vertical profile for the standard glide-path on final approach to runway 33: how far out over the Potomac does it cross that 400' floor?