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So what did you think was going to happen. Sign a deal with the devil and here ya go. Another Trump legacy

Yes Electric card have inverters to convert to AC for the AC induction motors. everything else in the car runs on DC

I spent many hours building RC planes years ago. It all slowed to a stop after getting married and having kids. I loved building the models but many of them only ever flew once or twice.

I would imagine that the aircraft would use AC Motors like electric cars do though.

the motors have no issue. its the batteries that have cold issues

Its not like shutting down an engine will take any time.

anad of course the mandatory reinforcement of the floor strucure and the installation of the appropriate 16g bulkheads etc etc etc .

The part that make me laugh it he "High Frequency Rail" part. We dont need High Frequency we need High SPEED Rail. The Windsor - Toronto - Ottawa - Montreal corridor could use the High Speed rail system It has needed it for decades but Canada is not progresssive enough to do it, So now we will get a very expensive half assed attempt which people will not use because it is too slow. Porter from the island would be faster to YUL or YOW. I agree with a high speed rail system but not what they are proposing because its too little gain for the money.

High speed rail reliability and OTP is far better than airlines. Just look to Europe and Japan. Japans system is in the neighborhood of 99.9% OTP and Uptime

ummmm. Branson was the first one in the race with Virgin Galactic. Their approach is very different but Musk and Bezos came from behind.

Employment contracts are wonderful things. When the Bonus structure is written into the contract there isn't much wiggle room. Executives get bonuses based on performance. That is a fact of life. If you have never worked outside a unionized environment, you wouldn't understand performance based compensation. The overall performance of the company rests squarely on the CEO. HE is the one that takes the punches when things go awry ANYWHERE in the company. with that heap of responsibility comes compensation commensurate with it. Ultimately it is his / her decisions that shape the company whether you want to admit that or not. AC weathered the storm very well long before the government finally got involved to provide LOANS to keep them going. The only thing that the so called "bail out" actually accomplished was getting cash into the hands of the non-refundable ticket holders who were given vouchers. nothing more.

See Vsplats post. "Cost recovery basis" This means if they install it, the airlines will pay for it over time. It is apparent that the airlines do not want to pay for it.

ummmmm....WEIGHT. Sure carry more people but you can't bring bags

who is busy? where?

The USAF has a department that specifically tracks all objects in orbit. from small to large it is all tracked in order to avoid collisions. Perhaps they need to send some of that crashing back to earth to burn up in the atmosphere.

I have been saying this for months. The cancellations were outside the airlines control. You had a non refundable ticket (as per the tariffs) and you goit a voucher. consider yourself lucky.

Jazz got the second last one.. End of an era

yeah...It thinks its great and it doesn't work.

By February 2020 we were in the mix no matter if you shut it down or not. All it takes is one individual to start a pandemic. The virus was on our shores and we were not getting away from it no matter what. There is no point in Shoulda woulda coulda at this point. The Experts (loosely used) made decisions based on available information AT THE TIME. Those decisions were the best known course of action AT THE TIME. They did NOT have the benefit of hindsight. Now .... WHAT DID WE LEARN is the question that we should be asking. What worked? what did not? A full "After Action Analysis" is necessary to ensure that we do not do this again. However the short memories of the human race will forget, defund and deflect responsibility when it happens again.

yes you are correct. I (and apparently many others) have always spelled it Perserverence. I suppose I should have looked it up but it is how I have always spelled it and have never been corrected.

I watched a documentary on Perseverence (I noticed it was spelled wrong during the documentary as well) Amazing feat of engineering even far above it's predecessor.

People keep saying the engine was on fire.... Technically the engine is ALWAYS on fire. It just happens to be contained. you are not supposed to let it out

No source given but does this include a correction for the "make up" numbers over the last several weeks? The reported daily numbers from Toronto included number from previous days which skews the outcome. Something to do with a software issue or some excuse.

Maybe in Brampton alone which I do not doubt but Ontario overall has been at or under 4% all along. Its a big province. Toronto, Peel and York are the areas that bring the numbers up. Watch the news. They rarely state the rate numbers just caases. Yes the number is out there but they are pounding us with the larger number to be really scary.

In all honesty the reported Case numbers mean nothing on their own. if you test 10 people and have 5 positive then you have 5 cases. Without knowing the number of test 5 cases sounds pretty good. problem is that its a 50% positivity rate. Positivity rate is a number that many news organizations and the government do not give readily. The reason for this is that it has never gone over 4.5% in Ontario. For the last week or so they have been touting issues with the system tracking the data and the reported number include "catch up data" which means the daily case count is inflated with number from tests taken days ago. again a number without context. Without the catch up numbers added in Ontario is trending quickly downward. The Downward Trend means that Fords Lockdown was a success and is working. The problem is they have introduced further restrictions that are unnecessary which we will not see data from until late next week. International Travel and related contact cases account for less than 2.5% of ALL cases of covid to date. The focus on Travel is to point the finger at someone else because we couldnt possible be mismanaging this thing (<Sarcasm). This is just to appease the public. The travel restrictions will have little effect on case numbers but will kill a significant number of airline jobs, if not airlines.