Ukraine aircraft manufacturer Antonov says it will likely cost about $500 million to return the An-225 to the skies. The only flying version of the cargo plane was destroyed during fighting in the early days of the Russian invasion. The plane was in an open-ended hangar at Hostomel Airport near Kyiv last February when Russian paratroopers overran the airport to establish a base for taking Kyiv. The enormous aircraft, the biggest in the world, posed no threat to the invaders and had little strategic value but it was set on fire during fighting for the airport.
I will feel so much safer flying on the airlines now knowing that the FAA is really on top critical things like this. They have been wasting far too much time on silly stuff like safety, aircraft inspections and other such nonsense. BTW, I thought of another term for the place where the pilots sit, but it’s not gender neutral either and AV Web would definitely not publish it.
Typical governmental do-gooder ignorance of the facts. Initially, the word cockswain is used to describe the person in charge of a small vessel. The title comes to us from “cock,” an Old English term for a small boat, and “swain,” which means servant. A cockswain is a boat servant. Over time, this title led to the steering compartment of smaller boats, where the cockswain sat, being called a cockpit. As many nautical terms were adopted to a fledgling aviation community, this is most likely the reason for the use of the word today. They have to justify not only their jobs, but their existence.
Us women have been successfully flying airplanes for over 100 years, well before the FAA was even formed. FAA verbiage has never stopped us. Can we lease spend these tax dollars on something useful?
God created Eternity, Humans created time.
God created 2 genders, Man and Woman. Humans created “more”.
God created humans. Humans are trying to kill God.
The FAA can’t manage themselves. Snowflakes now seem to control the FAA.
What a load of crap!
Can’t believe AOPA is part of this! I might have to rethink my membership.
I will buy off that the other gender is equal when they can beat me at arm wrestling!
Actually, humans created god. Or more accurately, humans created thousands of gods, but the plurality of religious people in this country decided to settle on one version of a single god who conveniently happens to be male, which explains why so many people commenting here are offended by any movement to reverse 250 years of inequality. Also, there are more than 2 genders. There are at least 54 known genetic genders (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-redefined-the-idea-of-2-sexes-is-overly-simplistic1/), and the fact that humans are getting smarter and starting to recognize these variations as natural instead of being threatened by them is actually a good thing (after all, didn’t your “god” create all life including these gender variations?)
Seems to me that the real “snowflakes” (what a stupid term) are the folks who comment on AvWeb and seem to be afraid of the possibility that much of what they were taught growing up might be wrong.
Exactly. It doesn’t. In fact the committee was co-chaired by “AOPA President Mark Baker and Patricia Gilbert, executive vice president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association”, neither of whom are known to be partisans. The crotchety old armchair quarterbacks who fear any kind of change and love to gripe on AvWeb are the ones calling it “Democrat pandering”.
Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic? This nonsense is an insult to all the wonderful ladies I have met who joyfully fly along ignoring the petty gender bias of aviation or, in fact, see it as a challenge that just makes it that much more fun.