Weekly Roundup, Friday 16 August 2019
Good morning I’ve had a very busy week this week, and thought I’d – excuse me – quickly rush off a short piece as a feature article for this week. But the “quick short piece” …
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Weekly Roundup, Friday 9 August 2019
Good morning I went on a mini-road trip this week, covering over 800 miles in two days, with 650 of those miles featuring my teenage daughter and her friend in the back of the car. …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 2 August 2019
Good morning Usually, if at all, in this area we get a power cut or two as a result of a “wind storm” in fall. Sometimes that can result in a loss of power for …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 26 July 2019
Good morning My article last week about Boeing’s Bad Decision when it decided to update its 737 one more time in 2011 drew a lot of comment, and is now the most viewed page on …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 19 July 2019
Good morning The build up to the Apollo 11 celebrations is reaching a crescendo. As I type this, a website that is recreating the journey in real time tells me that at this moment, 50 …
Did Boeing Secretly “Bet the Company” Yet Again on an Airline Project?
Boeing announced today a $5.6 billion pre-tax charge in its second quarter for costs related to its B737 MAX problems. This followed the earlier $1 billion charge in its first quarter, and is based on …
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Weekly Roundup, Friday 12 July 2019
Good morning Our summer in Seattle is proving rather disappointing currently, to the point of instead of running the a/c, I’ve even had the heaters on intermittently. I hope your summer is better than mine, …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 5 July 2019
Good morning I hope your July 4 was great, and if your day was enlivened by the California ‘quake, the extra “celebration” didn’t cause any damage or disruption. I’d commented last week about what I …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 28 June 2019
Good morning With 4 July staring us in the face, I can’t help noticing a change in things. Somehow, we’ve gone from signs joyously advertising fireworks for sale in the run up to 4 July …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 21 June 2019
Good morning Happy 100th anniversary this week to trans-Atlantic air travel. Most people don’t even know it was John Alcock and Arthur Brown, two British fliers, who completed the first trans-Atlantic flight, traveling east from …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 14 June 2019
Good morning Our redesign continues today with some more tweaking in the newsletter and now rolled out to all newsletter versions – the Express, the Daily, and the Weekly versions. Note that some people are …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 7 June 2019
Good morning If you are receiving this in the form of the once weekly newsletter, you can hopefully see that our redesigning continues apace (the daily and instant versions have yet to be updated). This …