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At least one can count on Alberta being the biggest contributor to AB’s GDP.

Insight on the *787’s RAT from one of my fave air incident commentators, blancolirio (Juan Browne, retired USAF and current AA 777 first officer) The aircraft had to be in bad shape if the RAT deployed pretty much after liftoff. 😔

CIA and Hollywood agrees! …but others prepare to roll their eyes… https://collider.com/argo-movie-accuracy/

Interesting video with the entire sequence from brakes release to crash. At about :29-:30 is where I see what looks like settling below the climb out path. The fuselage climb attitude doesn’t change much, so it appears more like settling vice all out stall, where the nose would drop suddenly...

Canada did enough already giving nuclear technology to Pakistan and India, making them promise to use it for peaceful purposes only.

For reference to the flaps. Takeoff setting on a 787-8 can be as ‘Flaps 1’ which is mostly leading edge slats and 1° flap. Admittedly that is pretty hard to see from behind, as would Flaps 5 as well. Maximum takeoff setting is Flaps 20, which would be very evident from an aft view. Saw the...

Looking for confirmation of the RAT deployed, but don’t see it. It looks very much like 0° flaps from the aft view, but the fwd (leading edge) slats, think of them at ‘flaps’ in the front of the wing, have an ‘auto-gap’ function that deploys them (if below 240 knots airspeed indicated), even if...

But didn’t shy away from using it (and de facto growing it) once he became President. 😉

Ack. They’re definitely down to the last few birds. That says a lot. Normally the 160s are reserved for ‘other duties.’ 😉

Engines off for more than 24-48 hrs and it’s likely a non-op tail being robbed. In the vids/pictures, one of the A-50s seems to have been a rob aircraft, but that still reduces the avail parts to keep the others going. I’ve lost count, but I think they only have 3 operational A-50s remaining...

Wifi….good? 😉

This time around, likely significant damage to the support structure of the main arches.

View of FPV attack damaging Tu-95M and A-50 AWC

Kind of like the policy that supporter/Non-CbtArms got long rifles, not carbines, because carbines aren’t for confined use, they’re for cool dudes (and tankers). 😉

Yup, the academic reverse Red Swallow modus operandi.

If it wasn’t the old analogue first version of the MX-20, I’d agree. 😉

Possibly, and some OFA as well in-year. One can hope.

Like dapaterson says, an assessment of fail rate, repair times, other infra-fleet transferability from non-op airframes, etc. could mean that one spare per coast IS in fact a luxury that isn’t required. 😉

Yup.

Count down to the next SACEUR being non-American… (some 🤯)