Experts And Ex-Boeing Employees Are Worried About The Max Planes

Airlines are resuming flights with the troubled Boeing Max 9 planes which were all grounded following the door panel blow-out incident on Jan. 5, but aviation experts say that these planes still have significant and potentially dangerous quality-control issues. - Logan Carter Read More

Amelia Earhart was declared dead in January of 1939, two years after her around-the-world flight in her Lockheed Electra 10E Special ended in an unsolved disappearance. Earhart was the world’s most accomplished and famed female pilot in 1937, and her ill-fated flight is still the kind of thing that haunts a person. Real-estate investor and pilot Tony Romeo spent around $11 million on an expedition to uncover the whereabouts of Earhart’s lost plane, and after a 100-day voyage covering 5,200 square miles of ocean floor, he believes he has found it at last. - Bradley Brownell Read More

Picture this: You’re a mail carrier in the USSR, 40 years after the fall of the Tsar. You’ve got places to go, letters to deliver, but the infrastructure around you isn’t exactly replete with bullet trains and six-lane highways. How are you going to cross the hectares separating you from your mail route? - Steve DaSilva Read More

Trucking companies have been getting away with low insurance minimums that have failed to keep up with inflation, and it’s creating unsafe roads for the rest of us. The last time that U.S. regulation set minimums for truckers was in 1980 when the Motor Carrier Act mandated they carry at least $750,000 policies, which was a reasonable sum at the time. Trucker’s insurance minimums have not been raised in 44 years, and the low bar has permitted trucking companies to skirt by with little regard for road user safety, according to Streets Blog USA. - José Rodríguez Jr. Read More

I recently had a conversation with someone who argued Legos should only ever be built to the instructions of the kit, you should never dismantle them and make what your heart desires. That’s ridiculous and is clearly not a belief held by Richard Paules, who has just thrown the covers off an incredible Lego replica of Washington’s Dulles Airport. - Owen Bellwood Read More

If there’s one thing American drivers hate more than a roundabout, its a railway skirting across the road. Grade crossings are a blot on the country’s pristine highways and cause all manner of confusion and collisions every year. So imagine how angry you’d be if you stumbled across a piece of infrastructure that combined the level crossing and the roundabout all at once. - Owen Bellwood Read More

More idiots armed with cheap laser pointers are causing dangerous distractions for pilots than ever before. Some 13,000 laser strikes were reported to the Federal Aviation Administration by pilots in 2023, up from 9,457 reports in 2022, and marking a new record high. Laser attacks on aircraft have more than tripled since 2011, in spite of the act being a federal crime since 2012. Since reporting began, hundreds of pilots have reported laser strike-related injuries, including flash blindness, afterimages, and eye pain. This can cause serious safety issues for the pilot at takeoffs and landings, where visuals are significantly more important. A person who aims a laser pointer at an airplane can expect a fine of up to $11,000 per incident, and occasionally prison time. - Bradley Brownell Read More

The derailment last year of a train carrying toxic chemicals through the small town of East Palestine, Ohio seemed a drastic call to action at the time, but very little has been done to prevent a similar disaster. Indeed, following the derailment, incidents have only increased. - Erin Marquis Read More

Enfield’s Super Meteor 650 gets an aggressive city makeover.