Less than half an hour to the final flight of the Delta family.
It was a workhorse for decades, but it’s now obsolete technology.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Drainpipe Drones
As always, war drives technology.
Boeing
It was even worse than we knew.
And yes, the “suicide” does look very suspicious. After reading this, there is little I’d put past these “leaders.”
[Evening update]
On the other hand, how can a lot of these stories about wheels falling off, or engine parts falling off, or engines catching fire, be attributed to Boeing? They don’t build the engines. These kinds of things have to be attributed to the operator. Which says that the whole industry is fucked, probably because DEI.
Boeing
An insider look at what went wrong. It’s not pretty.
IFT-3
Not much new to those who have been following it, but Irene Klotz has a nice description of the flight.
China And The Moon
Will they beat us back?
They certainly won’t have a problem beating NASA back, given its political constraints. I do think that a private effort could beat them.
That 1938 Feeling
I’ve been having it, too.
Any Decade Now
With anniversaries coming up, Doug Messier reports on Virgin Galactic’s “progress.”
I weep when I think what could have been done with those hundreds of millions if they hadn’t been wasted on such a misbegotten concept.
The Samizdat Prize
An interview with the winners: Miranda Devine, Matt Taibbi, and Jay Battacharya. Well deserved.
Twilight Of The Wonks
A long, but interesting history.