Notices by Airplanista 🇺🇦 (av8rdan@squawk.mytransponder.com)

Man when you look at the pics and video of the CRJ that flipped on its back in Toronto today, it seems like a miracle there were only eight injuries and no fatalities.

Looks like right wing and entire tail is gone, with evidence of some fire. They are lucky it didn't all go boom. And can you even imagine evacuating a jet when its upside down? Holy crap that would be scary.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-pearson-overturned-airplane-1.7461227

#avgeeks #aviation #airplanes #pilotlife #flying #airlines #travel #aircraft

If you didn't see this coming given who is really running the guvmint right now, you have not been paying attention.

Arstechnica.com reporting:

"Boeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel Space Launch System (SLS) contracts"

A hastily-called #Boeing all-hands meeting today warned of "possible" mass layoffs in the SLS program in early spring.

Damn, I wonder where we're gunna get rockets now.

Oh wait...

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/boeing-has-informed-its-employees-that-nasa-may-cancel-sls-contracts/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#space #avgeeks

Go deeper:

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/company-news/2025/02/07/boeing-to-lay-off-about-400-workers-on-moon-rocket-program/

@sundogplanets Gee, I cannot imagine who might be behind the gutting and muzzling of NASA**. It is almost like some rich dude with a space company who is full-on up the POTUS ass is asking - after throwing millions to the "funds" - that NASA be killed off so his rocket company can make even more money.

Because private islands are not cheap anymore, and they just don't give Gulfstream G700s away these days.

(**I have not fully researched this so I could be wrong. Seems plausible.)

From the CNN:

Russia fines Google 2 gazillion billion megamillions bazillion for blocking Youtube in RU, or, better put…

"Google reportedly owes the Kremlin more than 2 undecillion rubles, a 2 followed by 36 zeroes — after refusing to pay fines that are now accruing for blocking pro-Russian channels on YouTube. The virtually unpronounceable penalty amounts to $20 decillion — or around $20 billion trillion trillion. That dwarfs the size of the global economy."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/31/tech/google-fines-russia/index.html

Probably will not be the last eVTOL maker to bite the dust when that dust settles.

From flyingmag.com:

"Electric Air Taxi Manufacturer Lilium Runs Out of Money – Company had planned to launch in South Florida, California, and Puerto Rico as soon as 2026.”

Yeah boy, we told ya this “flying car” stuff is hard. Just ask Terrafugia.

https://www.flyingmag.com/news/electric-air-taxi-manufacturer-lilium-runs-out-of-money/?MailingID=%CAMPAIGNID%&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=text&utm_campaign=FLY-NL-Business-Air&oly_enc_id=0351F4908023B6T

#avgeeks #aviation #airplanes #pilotlife #flying #aircraft

So now Trump says he has agreed to debate #KamalaHarris on ABC. She will bring her prosecutorial “A” game and eat him for lunch.

I hope she just drills him on all the lies he will spew for every minute she has a hot mic.

She knows his hot buttons, and not only knows how to push them, she can push them by doing a roundhouse kick and using the high heels of her shoes to push them.

#BringItOn
#NotEnufPopcorn
#PagingOrvilleRedenbacher
#HarrisWalz2024

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-agreed-offer-abc-news-debate-harris/story?id=112685962

In times of distress (such as TODAY) you can always count on The Onion to say it like it is:

"Supreme Court Overturns 'Right v. Wrong’”

"Despite the compelling case for goodness, truth, and justice made by our predecessors in the case of Right v. Wrong, we firmly believe that malice, dishonesty, and injustice were the framers' original intent."

https://www.theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211

#SCOTUS #CanPoundSand

Hey can someone quickly hit me back with a fave or reply I am testing a new client for Mastodon, thx in advance.

@jimcarroll Back atcha. So I have a bookmark for aircraft searches and it appears C-GXII is a TBM 700? Now THAT is a nice ride.

Was playing around doing acro in my Waco biplane in X-Plane tonight, and got a little too aggressive and ended up in an inverted flat spin that was not recoverable. Click the vid and watch until the end.