• Boeing, however, has thousands of unfilled orders with airlines worth half a trillion dollars in revenue. Indonesia’s national airline, Garuda, said it wanted to cancel its order, making it the first airline to waver on Boeing’s jet. Airlines like Southwest and TUI, a German leisure carrier, have announced lower earnings expectations as a result of the groundings.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/business/boeing-737-crashes.html
Boeing executives are offering a simple explanation for why the company’s best-selling plane in the world, the 737 MAX 8, crashed twice in the past several months, leaving Jakarta, Indonesia, in October and then Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in March. Executives claimed Wednesday, March 27, that the cause was a software problem — and that a new software upgrade fixes it.
But this open-and-shut version of events conflicts with what diligent reporters in the aviation press have uncovered in the weeks since Asia, Europe, Canada, and then the United States grounded the planes.
The story begins nine years ago when Boeing was faced with a major threat to its bottom line, spurring the airline to rush a series of kludges through the certification process — with an under-resourced Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) seemingly all too eager to help an American company threatened by a foreign competitor, rather than to ask tough questions about the project.
The specifics of what happened in the regulatory system are still emerging (and despite executives’ assurances we don’t even really know what happened on the flights yet). But the big picture is coming into view: A major employer faced a major financial threat, and short-term politics and greed won out over the integrity of the regulatory system. It’s a scandal.
There are lots of different passenger airplanes on the market, but just two very similar narrow-body planes dominate domestic (or intra-European) travel. One is the
Article source: https://www.vox.com/business-and-finance/2019/3/29/18281270/737-max-faa-scandal-explained
MSI’s GE75 Raider (starts at $1,749; $2,999 as tested) is a high-end 17.3-inch gaming laptop. This model raises the bar over the outgoing GE73 Raider, integrating much-improved gaming performance into a sleeker design. A six-core processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card in our topped-out tester have no trouble pushing triple-digit frames-per-second (fps) in today’s AAA titles. Paired with a 1080p/144Hz display, this MSI makes an ideal platform for esports titles and other fast-action games. The performance leaves little room for complaint, but intrusive fan noise, a lack of Nvidia G-Sync support, and extremely brief battery life tarnish its appeal. Indeed, MSI’s own GS75 Stealth, with a thinner and lighter design, way better battery, and near-identical gaming performance remains our top pick for a premium 17.3-inch gamer.
The GE75 Raider is second to MSI’s flagship GT75 Titan in performance (and price); the GT75 packs a more powerful Intel Core i9-8950HK processor versus this tester’s Intel Core i7-8750H. For a more portable option, the GS75 Stealth is just 0.75 inch thick and under five pounds, with less storage expansion the key trade-off. Meanwhile, the GL73 is the budget choice, offering up to GeForce RTX 2060 GPUs.
View All 10 Photos in GalleryThe new GE75 Raider went on a serious diet.
Article source: https://www.pcmag.com/review/367363/msi-ge75-raider
The Salute to Veterans Corporation is inviting the public to their free two-day airshow at the Jefferson City Memorial Airport, during Memorial Day weekend, May 25 – 26 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Performing at the air show will be:
Lima Lima two-ship T-34 aerobatic demonstration – returning after 7 years
Flight of the Stearman four-ship aerial demonstration – for the first time
US Air Force Wings of Blue Skydiving Team – for the first time
United States Army Special Operations Command Black Daggers Parachute Team
WWII de Havilland Vampire aerobatic demonstration
Lockheed T-33 ‘Shooting Star’ aerobatic demonstration
Trojan Phlyers T-28 aerobatic demonstration team
1948 A-1 Skyraider aerobatic demonstration
UH-1B “Huey” helicopter aerial demonstration – for the first time
T-6A Texan II two-ship aerial demonstration – flying for the first time
Reno Racer “Radial Velocity” T-6 aerobatic demonstration
model airplanes flying and on display – for the first time
Helicopters on static display will be the:
UH-60 BlackHawk
UH-72 Lakota
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Inside a former tool-shop located on the Piaggio facility’s grounds in Pontedera, Italy sits a treasure trove of history, a time capsule if you will, which allows visitors a look into the past of some, but not all, of the brands currently included under the Piaggio umbrella. The 32,000 sq ft Museum is located in one of the oldest parts of the Piaggio complex where, in the early 1920s after purchasing the facility, Piaggio began production of airplane engines.
Without even entering the museum, the rich history can be felt when walking by the century old buildings. A shining example of Italian industry. Though the history itself is rich and interesting, a top 10 list isn’t the place to try to describe the company’s past 100 years. No, instead we’ll take a look at the top 10 sights seen at the Piaggio Museum in Pontedera as curated by yours truly.
A stainless steel railcar meets you as you approach the museum. In the mid-30s, Piaggio was the first in Italy to start building stainless steel railcars and electric locomotives. Stainless steel was chosen for its lasting qualities and required much less maintenance than other materials and techniques of the time. Piaggio licensed a welding technique from the Philadelphia-based Article source: https://www.motorcycle.com/features/top-10-sights-seen-at-the-piaggio-museum-in-pontedera.html
The outcry surrounding the twin Boeing 737 Max tragedies in the last few months represents something totally new and different for global aviation. Following crashes in Asia and Africa, the global scope of the reaction to the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines incidents shows business as usual won’t cut it anymore for airlines and aircraft manufacturers.
Airlines — and the countries over which these airlines were flying — moved with unprecedented speed to remove all variations of 737 Max from service, ignoring traditional industry standards that call for a thorough investigation of flight data before making a decision to ground a particular model of aircraft.
Back in the fall of 2017, we at Skift coined a term, permanxiety, which we defined as a near-constant state of anxiety that exists around the world. These worries include just about, well, everything: terrorism, security, neo-isolationism, racial tension, Trumpism, technology’s adverse effects, the widening economic gap, culture wars, climate change, and other geopolitical and local issues.
We further explored how travel has become the global crucible for these permanxieties, exacerbated by hyper-connected citizens using social platforms.
In an era of dominance by Facebook, Twitter, and others, an airplane crash represents a perfect storm for travelers by stoking the imagination and feeding users a constant stream of updates on the bad news. Clickbait-meets-anxieties is perfect fodder for media to feed into for days and months. Two crashes of the same aircraft model, then, is a story that airlines and aviation manufacturers simply can’t ignore until it
Article source: https://skift.com/2019/03/29/airplane-crashes-boeing-and-the-age-of-permanxiety/
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Article source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-28/vietnam-s-bamboo-picks-boeing-rival-airbus-for-narrow-body-jets
