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To my knowledge there isn't a general purpose mass-transit system (buses or trams) in the entire world that entirely pays for itself via the fare box without additional subsidy. Not one. (This excludes special-purpose systems, such as city-to-airpor…
@Ted: I know that you were just waiting for this, so here you go:
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Well, if Ted thinks that the WSJ is a "boy", I guess he really is losing it. While the WSJ article did indeed earlier say 1.7%, I see that it has now been corrected to 1.9%.
Note: It will be interesting to see how long it takes Ted to enter yet ano…
@Ted: Thanks for yet another positive contribution to a serious discussion. Your efforts to dominate MFO are really appreciated by MFO members, as evidenced by the fact that no one even bothers to comment on your "Closing Bell" posts and you have to…
"I don't think the government has any grounds to get involved but they will find a way... When the government gets done with these planes they will have added all types of safety features."
Much more efficient to let airlines and aircraft manufactu…
Indonesia’s Garuda Airlines cancels order for 49 Boeing 737 MAX jets following 2nd deadly crash
From The Washington Post:
By Washington Post Staff
March 22 at 1:26 AM
"Garuda Airlines, Indonesia’s national carrier, said that consumers have “low c…
@hank- The following, from Gary's link, explains the two "optional" safety monitors:
"One of the optional upgrades, the angle of attack indicator, displays the readings of the two sensors. The other, called a disagree light, is activated if those s…
@Crash- Sure, I understood that. My question was for JohnN, who seems to be thinking that he can exploit that situation.
(V. sorry about the confusion.)
Yesterday, in a post up above, I asked a number of questions about Southwest's retrofit of an additional Angle-of-Attack malfunction indicator. That modification adds a warning light if the two AoA sensors, which are the primary inputs for the MCAS,…
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Additional commentary on the referenced article:
This article has a number of pictures of the stabilizer controls:
The caption under these pictures states:
"Normal electric trim control on the yoke can stop the MCAS-driven stabilizer movement, …
A WSJ reader posted a comment yesterday regarding the "MCAS" system which is under intense scrutiny as the possible cause of the two crashes.
That comment referenced a very interesting aviation news article, with an excellent and detailed explanati…
@hank- What an excellent question! Can that "Stab Trim" switch be repeatedly "reset" by the MCAS?
I don't know the answer, but if that is true, what a damned nightmare.
@Derf- I think that what Mark is saying is that if you have constructed a portfolio to supply needed income, the short-to-medium changes in actual NAV are unimportant. That seems right to me.
Even your cheating doesn't work, Ted. No post that you have artificially boosted into the "Comment+" section has generated even one honest comment from another viewer. Even with all of your cheating your viewer numbers are pathetic.
Regards
OJ
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An article today in "The Middle Seat" column of the Wall Street Journal has a couple of interesting aspects. First, it appears that Southwest Airlines has installed additional monitoring equipment for the suspected angle-of-attack sensors:
"Southw…
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Well, consistency was never one of @Ted 's strong points. Especially with a completely different rule set for himself and everyone else. (In fairness, I guess Ted is consistent in having two different rule sets... that's another way of looking at th…
Here's a few short excerpts from that Washington Post article that @hank mentioned. I focused on these because of the similar issues facing Airbus.
"Airbus equips many of its commercial jets with its own anti-stall software that relies on an automa…
@hank- thanks much for that info. I was trying to explain exactly that to my wife the other evening, and when I got to the part about the forward placement of the engines I stopped cold, thinking exactly the same thing about a probable increase to t…
@MikeM- Yessir. Back in November, following the first Lion-Air crash, I said:
"Let's make some major changes in automation, allow the aircraft to override pilot control during critical maneuvers, and let's not tell anyone about all of this. Pilots …
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@hank- Thanks much for this additional info... VERY interesting. And just to confirm to @Ted that I'm not oblivious to the faults of Democratic administrations (as he seems to think) let me point out that the FAA certification for the "737 Max" air…
@Mark- Perhaps because Old_Skeet may have a number of different brokerage and Fund-Family accounts, each of which may have it's own MM fund. Much easier to transfer funds internally than to route money between different institutions.
In our case we…
