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Re:FAA Issues Emergency Order of Revocation Against TapJets by pdpi on Friday February 02, 2018 @08:12PM (#16295531)
The FAA is the antithesis of "move fast and break things", and their threshold for "unsafe" is justifiably very very tight.

Claiming this has anything to do with "disruption to the commercial airline business" requires some extraordinary evidence to back it up.

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Re:FAA Issues Emergency Order of Revocation Against TapJets by soneil on Friday February 02, 2018 @11:45PM (#16296236)
We're a little too proud of "break things" sometimes. "Break things" should not extend to human beings, or fragile aluminium tubes containing human beings.

You wouldn't accept "move fast and break things" from your surgeon, and he can only kill one customer at a time.

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Re:FAA Issues Emergency Order of Revocation Against TapJets by ridgeguy on Friday February 02, 2018 @10:11PM (#16295925)
Agreed.

"Move fast and break things" is a bad strategy if you're operating in the sky. We've been accumulating data that support this view since Wilbur and Orville in 1903.

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