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Posted on 10/03/2025 7:08:59 AM PDT by DFG
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I’d like to see it land in a crosswind.
AVIATION PING!...................
You beat me to it.
D-Day Redux
As often as not, the gliders turned out to be single use.
We’ve all seen it before and undoubtedly they got the idea from what the USAAF did in the war.
Remains to be seen how effective it is in commercial use. Will depend on the average flight profile.
What could go wrong?
should this ever actually get off the ground commercially, the first glider that crashes into a neighborhood will terminate this whole nonsense ...
Air Traffic Control: “Go around, Go around. Execute missed approach.
Response: “Nope”
TCAS: “Climb, Climb, Climb”
Response: “ “
They will need to limit these to Freight/GA only airports in rural areas to prevent ‘incidents’ with passenger planes and folks on the ground.
Say Winder for Atlanta, North Texas Regional for DFW, etc.
2 AMAZON DRONES HIT A CONSTRUCTION CRANE YESTERDAY—MISSED WHERE
Or maybe they could just catch ‘em in big nets.
You’re right, all the repurposed air bases like Mesa Gateway and the others you named would have to be the destinations, but that was always the plan for the cargo biz...
Still should be interesting when the errant field service truck accidentally drives on to an active runway...eek! Can’t go around...
The drivers will hopefully be fully qualified and licensed, no foreigners please.
The main purpose of this start up is to collect investor/government money. Then go bankrupt. Like always...
“Then go bankrupt. Like always...”
There are always a few exceptions like Apple, Google, Amazon, NVidia, SalesForce, Uber, AirBnB, Netflix, Tesla, Facebook, Cisco, Oracle, Instagram and some others.
Oh yeah I see zero problems with any of this.... /s
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