Tag: aviation

Kilauea eruption, junk news effects, human quantum tests: this week in science

05.11.18.

The Big Island is getting bigger by the moment… Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has been erupting nearly continuously since 1983. But what’s happening on the Big Island now is unprecedented. As I write, 15 fissures have opened up in a community near the volcano, spewing lava over more than 116 acres. Thirty six structures have been…
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Climate change disrupts animal cycles, massive coral casualties, how Mars’ moons formed: this week in science

04.20.18.

Here’s a look back at this week in science, with stories you don’t want to miss. I’m reminded this week of the exquisite precision of nature and the complexity of its interrelatedness. It doesn’t take an awful lot… just a few degrees here, a small shift in a current there… to upset the applecart. Climate…
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Aviation and the “Tombstone Mentality” – How Southwest 1380 Could Have Been Avoided

04.19.18.

The uncontained engine failure of Southwest flight 1380 reminds us once again that commercial aviation is a business that does not always put safety first – and regulators seem reluctant to change that. Jennifer Riordan’s death could have been avoided if only the FAA did not have a “Tombstone Mentality.” My guest on this special…
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From Sully – to Sullied

01.01.17.

Archive post, “Flying Cheap” preview
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Captain Underpants and The Illusion of Security

01.01.17.

Archive post, Miles muses on TSA
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Hudson River Crash a Tragic Fluke

01.01.17.

The pilots simply never saw each other. Steven Altman had just departed Teterboro Airport in his single-engine airplane – his brother and nephew aboard. They were heading to the Hudson River flight corridor – and eventually out the mouth of New York Harbor toward the Jersey shore. As he reached the river, he turned his…
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