That depends very heavily on where the airplane is going or coming from.
Between midwestern cities you’ll get a lot of people asking their seatmates if they need to go first. If you departed from or arrived in NYC, well, fuggedabouddit.
I have traveled by air once in my life, and I was about seven at the time, so somewhere in the 1976-77 time range, but this is pretty scary.
That’s already posted here about 7 posts above yours. With a link to the ongoing thread.
Yeah, scary. But so is the cocaine-fuelled heavily-armed road-rager in the car next to yours.
True, but the psychopath “driving” nearby isn’t relevant to this thread. 
In my area, they don’t need drugs or weapons to be deranged while on the roads.
I thought this news might be of interest. I had no idea that the post had remained unfilled for so long. He certainly sounds like he has a lot on his plate, but I expect none of the head jobs have an easy day-to-day schedule.
Not mushrooms, surely.
Houston Hobby collision. Ooopsie. Not a lot of detail, but sounds like 1 plane took off without clearance and clipped a second plane landing.
Wow. Hobby is laid out like like an X: KHOU Airfield Diagram (faa.gov).
Looking at the damage it appears they met at an intersection. A couple milliseconds different and that’d have been a total loss fireball, or a very scary very close call. Instead they bent both airplanes.
Ew ew ew.
Expect traffic on the 101 highway in Mountain View, California, to be even worse in the days or weeks ahead, as motorists slow down to watch Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s 124-meter long airship Pathfinder 1 launch into the air for the first time.
IEEE Spectrum has learned that LTA Research, the company that Brin founded in 2015 to develop airships for humanitarian and cargo transport, received a special airworthiness certificate for the helium-filled airship in early September.
That piece of paper allows the largest aircraft since the ill-fated Hindenburg to begin flight tests at Moffett Field, a joint civil-military airport in Silicon Valley, with immediate effect.
That was a really shitty thing for them to do. 
I don’t know about JetBlue specifically, but containers are available for the A320. I think that’s one of the selling points for the type.
We get a note at the bottom of our final load sheet that states whether there is a risk of tipping back on to the tail, it just says “GROUND STABILITY PROCEDURES APPLY” and we are then supposed to pass that info to the cabin crew who will make announcements during disembarkation to try and ensure a continuous flow of passengers.
Not sure if this belongs in the Great Ongoing Space thread or the Great Ongoing Aviation thread, since it’s kinda both:
Sheesh. I can’t see why anyone would contract anything with them at this point, since this is a direct admission that they can neither bid accurately nor keep their costs under control.
They’ve lost >$1.5B on their Starliner contract. They’ve lost >$2B on their Air Force One contract. Lost >$7B on the KC-46 Pegasus aerial refueling aircraft. I’m not sure if they’re losing money on the Wideband Global Satellite Communication satellite or O3b satellite contracts, but it wouldn’t exactly be a surprise.
And instead of taking a hard internal look at why this keeps happening… they just won’t bid fixed-price contracts anymore. Bleh. Well, at least the taxpayers aren’t on the hook for the failures so far.
So Sergey Brin is building an airship that burns hydrogen. Might want to carry that fuel in drop tanks.
Wow. Thanks. Color me surprised.
Isn’t the AF1 contract for 2 aircraft? How the hell do you spend a billion bucks on a 747? I know it is going to have crazy communication systems and maybe even some defense systems, but still…
It is starting with diesel.
It’s Boeing, and a Defense contract, and one where I’m sure the Change Orders keep coming fast and furious. Not surprised at all.
Doesn’t help that as things stand you are not allowed to even think of anyone but Boeing for that job.
Still, the base plane is like $100 million and they’ve been building them for 50 years.
The base airframe (which BTW they no longer make) is the least thing. Heck, the airframes were already there, repurposed from a commercial cancelled order. The project contract was $4 billion for the conversion and by now is running 3 years late and has had to deal with supply chain and inflation issues.