Starliner redux

[pwttogfk]

So a couple lives ago I worked with experimental test pilots. Even for light aircraft that job takes more than I could imagine (I remember discussing one AFM limitation and being told quite nonchalantly “yeah, it liked to snap roll if one speed brake picked up more ice than the other”). I got goosebumps reading this. Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought

 

[invadertim]

What’s the over/under that Starliner ever flys again? I know it’s got a late 2025 launch scheduled, but for a while there it seemed like Boeing was walking away from it.

 

[Maurus]

What’s the over/under that Starliner ever flys again? I know it’s got a late 2025 launch scheduled, but for a while there it seemed like Boeing was walking away from it.

I'm sure if they rename it to the Trumpmobile and suggest calling the ISS the Trump Space Hotel it will get funding. Kind of like the F-47...

 

[derg]

I'm sure if they rename it to the Trumpmobile and suggest calling the ISS the Trump Space Hotel it will get funding. Kind of like the F-47...

I do hope they officially name it the F-47... For reasons...

Much like "If you want to "teabag" DC because you're made a brother is in the white house, go right ahead and call it that!"

 

[CFI A&P]

I do hope they officially name it the F-47... For reasons...

Orange Julius would be nice.

It’ll probably end up being Jetty McJetFace.

 

[Soku39]

So a couple lives ago I worked with experimental test pilots. Even for light aircraft that job takes more than I could imagine (I remember discussing one AFM limitation and being told quite nonchalantly “yeah, it liked to snap roll if one speed brake picked up more ice than the other”). I got goosebumps reading this. Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought

Wow