What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
Amazon cargo jet tried to abort unsteady landing before Miami crash that killed 5, per flight data
Flight data suggest an Amazon cargo plane tried to abort an unsteady landing before smashing into a van and killing five people inside.
The Airplane Hack I've Done Ever Since an Older Lady Told Me To
This is worth remembering for your next flight!
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Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions Into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change (Published 2019)
A system that doomed two flights was expected to engage only rarely and originally used two sensors. Critical decisions were based on those factors even when they no longer applied, employees said.
A year into the wreckage and salvage
It’s coming up on been a year, somehow, since I started this website/micro-studio/space to think in. What a wild choice that was, setting out in October of 2024, eyes on the horizon! We’d hoped things would turn out differently. The research and thinking I came
The Air Force Is Having To Reverse Engineer Parts Of Its Own Stealth Bomber
Twenty-one years after the last Spirit was delivered, the Air Force is working out how to build the exotic spare parts the bomber requires.
Pluralistic: Big Tech joins the race to build the world’s heaviest airplane (09 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
I have a weird fascination with early-stage Bill Gates, after his mother convinced a pal of hers – chairman of IBM's board of directors – to give her son the contract to provide the operating system for the new IBM PC. Gates and his pal Paul Allen tricked another programmer into selling them the rights to DOS, which they sold to IBM, setting Microsoft on the path to be one of the most profitable businesses in human history.
How I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World
https://t.co/qPBEMKweh6— jacob (@jsnnsa) October 29, 2026
The 737Max and Why Software Engineers Might Want to Pay Attention
As someone with a bit of a reputation for talking about aviation and software development and operations, I’ve been asked about the 737Max…
The Real-Life Bank Heist that Reads Like an Oceans 11 Sequel
An all-star crew, a plan that tricked the police, and a successful getaway that left them with a fortune. But no one expected what happened next.
Airplanes have secret features you probably never knew about
We all know about the life jackets under our aircraft seats and the oxygen masks we hope will drop down from above in a disaster. But did you know there was a secret handrail below the overhead...
Quote Origin: The Optimist Invents the Airplane and the Pessimist the Parachute – Quote Investigator®
George Bernard Shaw? Gladys Bronwyn Stern? W. H. H. MacKellar? Gil Stern? Mack McGinnis?
“We’ve Been Told There’s Another Plane in the Air and It’s Heading Here”
A 9/11 remembrance and thank you.
Seeking a $54 billion arsenal of killer drones, Pentagon turns to former hobbyists
A company that uses drones to analyze golf course grass. Another linked to a firm that hosts aerial light shows. And one founded by a 23-year-old former drone racing world champion. Any of them, the P...
The passenger
"Pass Christian, Mississippi, 1980: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips up the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from a Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit--by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, an inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul."--Dust jacket flap
Vibe Graveyard
Real tech failures and postmortems from the world of rushed shipping and bad decisions.