Posted on 05/10/2012 6:30:13 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
The Left has to sanitize failures of the Left in order to make collectivism appealing.
Interestingly, a Boeing office was on my site the last 18 hrs straight, downloading everything
I was on this story from the start two days ago because I found it particularly interesting the Russians were planning export offensives in the civil aircraft industry.
But their industry under Putin is one Soviet-style 5-year-plans BUT also forced unions withing the Russian Federation’s aircraft companies... when the only good thing about that business in Soviet times was often fierce competition between the ‘design bureaus’, such as Mig, Ilyushin, Sukhoi, Yak, et al.... that was what brought-about some of their best designs, actually
*** PING ***
“And if they find no flaws they will go ahead with purchases?”
That would be the $6M question, but obviously a very touchy subject, given the spotty Soviet safety record w/ Tu-154 and such
I would now expect Kremlinbucks to flow in the direction of Indonesian crash investigators...
“what sort of moron would request flying permission for 6000 feet when near a 7000 foot mountain? What air traffic controller would say ok?”
He asked permission but it was not actually ever granted, the Russians fell of radar and lost radio contact seconds after making the request.
Mind you,I never have flown...and never will fly...in a Soviet made aircraft.I’ll walk first... I, regrettably, have, and your decision is sound.
FOX early report on this says it may have been a fly by wire problem but not certain yet.
ok, I am duly impressed with your knowledge of Indonesia.
However, I thought this plane took off from Russia?
Yes, for example, Aeroflot. If Russian-built commercial aircraft were so superior, then I assure you that Western airlines would buy them. They don't. (The one exception I know about is a regional Italian airline that flies a few Su-100s.)
Maybe to Kamchatka ~
He ran into a major volcano!
These Soviet era fragments BEST FRAGMENTS KNOWN ON PLANET. IS SPECIAL DURABLE FRAGMENT! CAN NOT BE DESTROYED!
If they were smart, they would have made the whole plane out of those fragments.
GREAT IDEA! A little superglue, and GOOD AS NEW!
That is what Communists do best.
LOL, reminds me of “One, Two, Three”:
C.R. MacNamara: Cigarette? Cigar?
Peripetchikoff: Here, take one of these.
C.R. Macnamara: Thanks. Hm, ‘Made in Havana’.
Peripetchikoff: We have trade agreement with Cuba. They send us cigars, we send them rockets.
C.R. Macnamara: Good thinking.
C.R. MacNamara: You know something? You guys got cheated. This is a pretty crummy cigar.
Peripetchikoff: Do not worry. We send them pretty crummy rockets.
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