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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by mshumi on Thursday June 03, 2021 @12:48PM (#27384010)
Unfortunately, aerospace isn't an industry where you can say "fuck it, ship it"
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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by dylan604 on Thursday June 03, 2021 @01:29PM (#27384592)
737Max disagrees with that sentiment.
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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by leoc on Thursday June 03, 2021 @02:32PM (#27385447)
Talk about the exception that proves the rule, though!
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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by dylan604 on Thursday June 03, 2021 @02:45PM (#27385611)
300+ deaths seems like a very tough lesson to learn to prove the rule, though. Sorry, you comment struck me as rather macabre. This isn't a software update that caused people a temporary bit of inconvenience.
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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by bobthepanda on Thursday June 03, 2021 @03:12PM (#27385996)
Aviation has very high visibility of fatal crashes but a low overall rate. The car fatality rate is much higher but we treat it as routine because they are lower severity events at much higher frequency.
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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by chrisseaton on Thursday June 03, 2021 @06:36PM (#27388325)
That was the point of the person you replied to. You’re in agreement.
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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by leoc on Thursday June 03, 2021 @03:32PM (#27386219)
TBH I'm not sure what you think I was saying.
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