Fly the planes with remote and screw the pilots, their unions and the flight attendants. Those pilots and crews are only negotiating points for terrorists anyway.
The airline companiess might complain about the cost of this upgrade -- but show them how much they'll save on employees/benefits/training and remind them of the many american taxpayers who are always willing to bailout some Corporation that can't survive in the free market. They'll spring for it then.
Now the only problem will be monitoring the evil doers who own Airplanes and satellite technology, but then the current Lushites can create a new federal agency staffed with appropriate numbers from the Airline and Satelite Industry they're going to regulate and mandate some voluntarily regulation system. Afterall look how well this system works for environment, Agriculture, FDA and wallstreet (well, it used to work much better on wallstreet... give it a few more years or until we prosecute that evil ceo who stripped americans of their futures, you know - Martha Steward).
Furthermore, the planes are staying in such good shape, they are litterally flying the birds like crazy. He tells me some days they have eight and ten hour sit down sessions in those things. Basically, the sand is not stopping them from meeting, and in many cases exceeding, their operational requirements.
Always glad to hear positive operational news. Do you have information on the maintennence/performance of the abrams tanks - specifically their treads? I did hear negative performance accounts on BBC and NPR. The stories reported that the sand was having more of an impact on the tranks than expected.
The lift fan works well in a brand new unit that has seen at best a few hours of flight time. Just think about this thing being deployed overseas, going through hundreds of missions, in the baking heat, in the bitter cold, exposed to sea air with its humidity and high salt content.
Hey, don't forget the powder-grade sand in desert environments. The Apache Helecoptors and Abrams tanks got more than was expected in Operation Desert Storm and our current invasion of Iraq
The plane has so many obvious points of failure it astonishes me that mine is the first voice you've heard be critical. And what worries me is that once failure has occurred, at these speeds it will almost always be fatal.
What worries me also, is the financial cost. The cost of maintenance and upgrades. Congress is once again serving their constituents - you know, the corporations and special (funded) interest that pay for their election campaigns
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Fly the planes with remote and screw the pilots, their unions and the flight attendants. Those pilots and crews are only negotiating points for terrorists anyway. The airline companiess might complain about the cost of this upgrade -- but show them how much they'll save on employees/benefits/training and remind them of the many american taxpayers who are always willing to bailout some Corporation that can't survive in the free market. They'll spring for it then. Now the only problem will be monitoring the evil doers who own Airplanes and satellite technology, but then the current Lushites can create a new federal agency staffed with appropriate numbers from the Airline and Satelite Industry they're going to regulate and mandate some voluntarily regulation system. Afterall look how well this system works for environment, Agriculture, FDA and wallstreet (well, it used to work much better on wallstreet... give it a few more years or until we prosecute that evil ceo who stripped americans of their futures, you know - Martha Steward).