There already is an opening in the market - Boeing has manufacturing problems and Airbus cannot build their planes fast enough to satisfy the demand. Neither China nor anyone else are able to use that opening because China finds it too difficult to ramp up production of their C919, Russia is under sanctions and they were never able to mass manufacture airliners in the first place and as for the rest of the world, developing an airliner is difficult and expensive - even if a country is sufficiently developed, it will take "fucking years, absolutely years" to create an airliner from scratch and by then the next aviation crisis might arrive and kill off the design, like it happened with the Mitsubishi regional jet.

Yep, most likely a line technician forgot to lock the cowling after replenishing engine oil.

I get it that people don't RTFA since I am not new here. But the 50 anniversary is literally mentioned in the summary. I guess nowadays people just read the headline.

Merkel, with her habit of doing nothing as the world around crumbles, is directly responsible for the current sorry state of affairs.

Youtube is not banned yet only because their russian equivalent sucks donkey balls. As soon as they think it is good enough, youtube will immediately be banned. They consided instagram a terrorist organisation, for fuck's sake!

Except methane doesn't just disappear, it decays to CO2 and water hence it is worse. This is why it is preferable to methane off.

Any bluray player can play CDs.

Only the USA has the 1500 hour rule, as an answer to the Colgan Air crash. Except those 1500 hours of towing banner ads on a Cessna 152 don't really transfer to flying airliners and pilots elsewhere, like in Europe, do just fine with flying airliners right from the beginning.

Neither the 737 nor the A320 have fully new wings, otherwise they would have been required to get a completely new certification which a 737, built to the 1960s standards, wouldn't pass. What they have are old wings that have been tweaked.

C919 has the same engines that power the A320 NEO and the 737 MAX, but with a significantly more modern wing than either, which compensates it being somewhat overweight, so the fuel burn will be about the same.

Spirit Aerosystems has multiple factories, many of these by acquisitions of other aerospace companies. This is where Airbus gets their parts. Boeing, on the other hand, gets theirs from the original ex-Boeing factory that became Spirit.

I did the trip three months ago. And you apparently don't seem to realise that sometimes the chargers are defective, not all cars are equal and driving fast in winter doesn't really help with the range either. Needed to recharge twice on the way. So please climb down from your high horse.

Considering that you have bragged about regularily driving drunk, you shouldn't have a vehicle, period.

I have found several on my last trip from Freiburg to Frankfurt that were app-only. My car was down to 20 km range when I finally found a charger I could use. Shit happens sometimes.

It's an imaginary scenario since virtually every charger >=75kW accepts credit card including every single charger at any gas station or highway truck stop. Just swipe your credit card.

Actually even a single charger type can behave differently depending on how it has been set up by its owner. Alpitronic chargers are pretty common here in Germany, but sometimes they accept only some weird application, sometimes they accept only very specific RFID chips, sometimes they accept all kinds of payment methods - applications, web sites, credit cards, RFID, autocharge, you name it.