Charlie scheduled my checkride with a local examiner. I’d fly out of Dulles, giving me a home-field advantage. The only problem was that it wouldn’t occur for another three weeks. Right then, I was at the top of my game, but in three weeks, I’d lose my edge—my skills and c...
In 1971, funding was cut and the project was scrapped as, on top of the massive unresolved engineering hurdles, a new concern had arrived to face the SST. Noise As well as cost, the final blow to the SST programmes of the USA and the Concorde project in France and Britain was one ...
The Concorde was developed almost 40 years ago, and in any case it supports my argument, which was also based on the laws of physics.Mentiras deslavadas sobre o crescimento | Paul Krugman 25. May 2010 at 11:42 […] Sumner diz que estou equivocado em relação aos impostos,...
I cringe still when the Starship is described by so many as high-tech, and futuristic. It was a failure in every respect. Raytheon shot for the moon and ended up with an exotic looking airplane that didn’t do anything as well as airplanes already there, and costing much less. And all...
3. ICANN took something like 7 years to roll out new gTLDs, when they could have just concluded an auction in a week. The entire process was a complete farce. In the end, it was just an auction, amongst 10 or so key players (MMX being one of them). But I wasted years dealing ...
1. You don’t have to deal with an idiotic healthcare system where a simple fever could put you back by $500. My grandad visited me while I was there, and he was running short in one medicine after 2 months. Even with a valid prescription from India, it was a hell to even get ...