"I understand you want to speak with an agent, but first I have some questions." is the most infuriating thing you can hear from an Airline system at 1230am. Saying you know I want to speak with an agent, but telling me I can't is just adding insult to injury.

Every 5 years or so someone in Valve's accounting department realizes they're one mistake away from accidentally becoming a bank so they do something really funny

The astro-inertial navigation system (ANS) of the SR-71 Blackbird was a remarkable feat of engineering that allowed the aircraft to navigate with unprecedented precision and accuracy, even over long distances and in challenging conditions. The system's ability to track stars

I keep telling my colleagues this like it’s breaking news, but the L-1011’s Direct Lift Control system was decades ahead of its time… The L-1011 TriStar had one of the coolest forgotten features in aviation: Direct Lift Control. Instead of pitching up/down to stay on the

An old – but still good – way of thinking about aircraft accidents & safety is “The Chain”. As in a “chain of events”. An accident is at the far end of the chain. At the near end is normal operations. When something abnormal happens, you are now linked to the chain & start

This killed me.

One of Aviations most Incredible stories and also, one of the first ones I ever told in my accident series. Today, the ”Gimli Glider” returns in a new and updated format, packed with more information and better graphics. Enjoy! 👇 #accident #aviation youtu.be/4fGibq7OV6E?si…

Idea for the UI for the AD Security Scanner, click on the tiles to get accounts/more details. spencer Nathan McNulty EZ (anyone else is free to add comments too)

wild how much ‘appsec’ is just stopping the 3 same bugs from shipping over and over

So I got sent this, and thus I am sharing it with everyone because of how cool it is. You can make accurate paper models of planes. They even have different liveries. You just print it out and assemble it. citycraft-papermodels.com/boeing-737-max This is a example of it done right (not by me)