News and notes from around the interweb:
- This British Airways Airbus A321 from Aberdeen had quite a touch and go at London Heathrow on Monday.
A321 TOGA and Tail Strike!
A full-on Touch and go, with a tail strike! Watch for the paint dust after contact and watch the empennage shaking as it drags. The pilot deserves a medal! BA training could use this in a scenario – happy to send the footage chaps 😉#aviation #AvGeek pic.twitter.com/ibXjmVJGiT— BIG JET TV (@BigJetTVLIVE) January 31, 2022
- The Self-Proclaimed ‘Wolf of Airbnb’ is Terrorizing Manhattan Landlords. Rents apartments and does not pay for them, while successfully listing them online.
“Based on what my property manager has told me, he is using the pandemic as well as the eviction moratorium with not paying rent while he successfully Airbnb’s the apartments and profits from every single room in addition to adding illegal bedrooms to maximize his profit,”
- The case against Covid-19 migration restrictions
The possibility that free migration could exacerbate the spread of COVID-19 has caused many nations to enact severe restrictions on both international migration and domestic freedom of movement. Unfortunately, these restrictions have done little to stop the spread of the disease while inflicting enormous harm on hundreds of thousands of innocent people. In some respects, they even make the spread of disease worse. In the long run, migration restrictions also curtail the scientific and medical innovation that we need to protect against future pandemics and other health threats….
- American Airlines pilots dramatize their frustration with last minute schedule changes and with hotel and ground transportation not getting booked for them when those happen, though (1) American Airlines mainline doesn’t actually serve Fargo, and (2) having to call the hotel desk doesn’t quite have the sense of desperation that they think it does (in fact, not being able to get through to the outsourced hotel desk, and their not having any inventory, have been the actual problems in past months).
Why did that planes tail jet the ground? Were the flaps not working?
…hit the…”
Tail strikes occur because of too nose high, in general. The pilots probably don’t deserve a medal. Im a retired pilot. My airline would have grounded them for additional training.
For once I approve of America’s gun laws. I would happily shoot the Wolf of Airbnb. I would also shoot the lawmakers who allowed him to be a parasite.