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Tegel served Germany, Europe and the world well. Berlin-Brandenburg is a textbook case of mindless mismanagement.

The National Film Board of Canada has produced great little films on aviation. Here`s a gem starring a C-64 Norseman a cousin of the DHC-2 Beaver; the sexiest flying machine for the bush. Just a few years ago patients were still being float landed across my lake to the hospital. Nowadays helicopters are used.

When Yeager goes; we'll all hear it.

The great Max Ward who opened the Canadian North in his de Havilland Fox Moth and developed his own airline has died. He was 98. https://globalnews.ca/news/7441066/aviation-pioneer-max-ward-death/ The National Film Board of Canada produced a great little film about Ward which can be viewed here:

Voyager 2 just received a call from Deep Space Station 43 on Earth which is 11,677 million miles from it. It`s even farther if you calculate it in km (18,8 million km) Oh, the phone bill next month... Deep ain`t much of a talker. This was just a test. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-contacts-voyager-2-using-upgraded-deep-space-network-dish

NASA/JPL is going to claim it in 2022. We'll all be wealthy and never pay taxes again. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/psyche/

(16) Phyche believed to be the remnant of a failed planet turned asteroid is worth a very very serious chunk of change; $1 US followed by 19 zeroes. $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 or 70,000 the value of our global economy according to some. I dunno about that last figure... And I sincerely don't believe that its' inhabitants are psychics... Here's the scientific paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/abb67e or : https://globalnews.ca/news/7429663/metal-asteroid-16-psyche-quadrillion/

Perhaps; but this is the Golden Age of uninformed opinion.

Le monde a commencé sans l'homme et il s'achèvera sans lui memorably wrote Claude Lévi-Strauss in 1955. transl. The world began without us and it will end without us. Larry Niven also wrote that the dinosaurs became extinct because they didn`t have a space program. But I`m with Lévi-Strauss. Dinosaurs had a great space ship; called Earth.

Scheduled to return with it`s sample on Sep. 24, 2023; this is a milestone in Space exploration.

Goglia and Feith both have very impressive credentials. What you do not know is whether or not one of them and/or both are consulting for Boeing`s civil liability insurers. It sounds to me that they are attempting to make the case for the contributory negligence of third parties in public forums because Boeing's civil liability insurers are worried about not being capable of making that case in a legal forum. .

Job cuts also announced at Pratt-Whitney Canada, Airbus and Héroux-Devtek which fabricated the lunar module landing legs for the Apollo 11 mission. It`s all quite disturbing news. https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/another-300-job-cuts-at-pratt-whitney-canada-and-airbus-as-airline-industry-turbulence-continues-1.5145236

The parachutes and brakes slow it down considerably so I`m guessing that less fuel is needed to slow it down. Of course, BO`s booster probably weighs more than Space Xs

I don`t know about the descent velocities. New Shepard uses parachutes and thrust to slow itself down. It does appear to look slower. We live in interesting times. Hopefully, I'll live long enough to witness a woman land on the moon in 2024. I won`t be around for a Mars landing, but I'll die confident that it`s going to happen in this century.

This is Blue Origin`s New-Shepard with a test lunar payload. It looks different than what we`re used to. Landings are always as spectacular. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1cdNxh5qZ4

It some legal jurisdictions it can indeed be a criminal offence especially in high risks/safety sensitive positions (like flying passenger airliners). Whole categories of regulated professions are by design set-up to minimize and detect professional misrepresentation. Pretending to be a doctor, a lawyer... a cop... and/or other so-called liberal professions on a job application can ( it has and it does) lead to criminal prosecution. In most legal jurisdiction it is a tort; negligent and/or fraudulent misrepresentation. It`s never a good idea to lie about one`s professional credentials. Many who have been exposed get blackmailed by those they scammed and in one case I am aware of a case (of a perp who alleged he was being blackmailed by an employer he had scammed). The perp decided walking into a police station and turning himself in was his only option. He never did prove that his employer had blackmailed him; because he had no credibility as a witness. His deposition went on the record. And he was civilly sued by his former employer. Better to not get a job that you're not qualified for than to get a job you're not qualified for. The old (and tired) saying according to which: - at the end of the day... it's all about credibility; is true. Lying is a fast track. But it has been known to cause some of the most memorable crashes of all time.

Leave a few seconds earlier and/or later and all is apparently won. Leave at the fateful moment and all is definitively lost.

see here: https://www.flightsimulator.com/vr-closed-beta-information/

Air India Express flightAXB1344 was a repatriation flight coming from Dubai. Sadly many injured and deceased. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/india-calicut-dubai-plane-crash-1.5678089 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLQ7mhCpOLA

... Space X https://twitter.com/SpaceX successfully tested it`s Starship SN5 prototype yesterday which took a 150m hop then landed all by itself. This is how we hope we`re beginning to land on Mars. A great view up-close to it`s Raptor engine. https://twitter.com/i/status/1290854457136181248

It was windy. Minor injuries. C-FZYZ is a 1956 Cessna 180. It did stay out of the reserved handicap parking. https://www.nelsonstar.com/news/plane-crashes-into-nelson-supermarket-parking-lot/

Here's our recent scientific understanding of owl's silent flight. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5206597/ We can approximately engineer some of the flight features of owls into the designs of our flying machines; but we're no where near bio-engineering silent flight like nature has done it. That barn owl sure is a pretty little thing, ain't she?!

... a sound proof room wired with microphones. And the winner for best performance in the silent lift category is...: (no, it`s not Tom Cruise) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_FEaFgJyfA

That`s great! I admire people who volunteer. Keep in mind that english is my third language, eh?! And I`m not very good at it. The good scientists at JPL are also great people who are involved locally in their communities when they`re not busy making corrections to the machines they are guiding to other worlds. I think one of the great mysteries about our condition in the universe is that the farther we look; the closer we see ourselves. The benefits of Martian exploration will never trickle down soon enough to tangibly alleviate poverty here on Earth. But it's inspiring young people to boldly take big risks and change the way we see ourselves in the bigger picture. If Perseverance and Ingenuity prove the past existence of life in Jezero Crater, that will be a game changer. I`m not certain about the numbers where you are but in my country, each person on average throws away 1/3 of the food products purchased. We certainly can improve the redistribution of basic necessities. I've been poor also; being physically and mentally scarred by too much inhumanity. I don't like to talk about it, so you will have to forgive me. All the best to you!

Put your money where your mouth is: quit paying your ISP fees and donate them to your local foodbank.