Some are. The kids are rioting over it, with mandatory service and increased military spending while other spending is cut being one of the key issues.

"Tens of thousands of people marched across more than 30 German cities"leading to violent clashes and looting in hubs like Frankfurt"to protest rising living costs, public spending cuts, and plans for compulsory military service."

I think the fact that the copilot was only 20 is of concern, rather than her gender. I want experience in the cockpit.

#53 | Posted by cbob at 2026-11-03 12:57 PM | Reply | Flag:

She had 1300 hours and all ratings needed to be the co-pilot.

Who's flying you around in a Learjet 60? =P

This would be the first known 60 crash due to icing.

"Heat batteries" were invented in WW2 by zi germanz.

Antora Energy and the solid state heat battery comes from a DARPA challenge in 2019.

They bombed Qeshm island yesterday evening (US time).

Pilot ID'd as Jeff Gregory, 55. A pretty standard white male christian.

Hopefully that fiance claim was not accurate..

I think the pilot was her fiance.

The passengers were a "tech entrepreneur", his wife & their kids.

They're just now figuring out the pilot wasn't actually the lady (copilot) and was a dude. Tough for them to come to grips with.

Going to need one of the Floridians here for that one.

This crash is kind of pathetic to watch on social media. Left wing? Trump did it. Right wing? Girls can't fly planes.

"Targeted EMP".

Right, because we knocked all of those Iranian fixed wing drones out of the air, EMP'ing away their electronic ignitions, radio, guidance system, servo controllers. We're the masters of the universe.

Lets just hope he doesn't drop a nuke on Iran after the midterms.

High altitude crystal icing can occur without visible bad weather or rain. You can look like you're flying over bad weather and still ice up and fall out of the sky. Especially if you are on autopilot the entire time and can't feel the trim changes.

Just 6mm of ice increases the stall speed by 40 knots. The aircraft departs controlled flight before stall warnings engage. If you are flying on autopilot the aircraft is continually adjusting its trim and you can't feel what's happening until it's too late. The AP disconnects and hands you an uncontrollable aircraft.

Once you go past m0.81 you're in an overspeed, as you m0.9 you're into T-tail separation speeds. If you pull hard the tail "over-g's" surfaces leave the airframe.

The Flydubai 737 MAX 8 hit m0.96 in its dive and survived, but it's not a T tail design and quite a bit tougher.

8750' is the last telemetry received when it was already crashing. It was cruising at 35k.

When I think of Trumpers, the first place I think of is Delaware.

Vivek is an anchor baby that went to school on a George Soros scholarship.

#16 how does a missle that only flies up 12.5k feet hit a plane at 32k feet?

As bad as hrat, ffs. It's not hard. Just watch the livemaps. They cover every conflict on the planet accurately.

Those live maps show

#65 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-30 09:05 PM | Reply

It's not a ship tracking site. Light your own lamp for once, click the link.

When it expires in it's one location on Sunday, Russians are going to come steamrolling down that freshly de-mined road.

#6 Like you read the news. Did you even know about the cease-fire?

#7 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2026-10-28 10:51 PM | Reply

Who gets the Trump Check for that one??

LOL

#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-28 07:19 PM | Reply

Those were all rhetorical. I have non-oil cargo that formerly went through there. It was relatively cheap and convenient. UAE, Suez, Atlantic, US ports. Now it goes the other direction through India and takes 3 months longer.