Tom Enders, CEO of Airbus Group visiting the valley. We ♡ the A380 with Denver air

8 responses to “Tom Enders, CEO of Airbus Group visiting the valley. We ♡ the A380 with Denver air”

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   jurvetson

   Nov 17, 2014 at 4:48 am

   More Airbus moments…
   The cockpit today…My only advice was to pre-enable the possibility that the airline customers would want to permanently disconnect the cockpit controls (for autonomous operation in air, and remote control when taxiing) and eventually turn the cockpit area into a lounge with no controls whosoever. He agreed that their planes could be fully autonomous today. I argued that such a move would remove the need for security screeners at airports altogether… From my TSA Far Blue Cell work. That was before the Google autonomous car work, and autonomous planes are much easier (you always have GPS lock, and there is a lot less variety of objects in the air).

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   jgury

   Nov 17, 2014 at 10:09 pm

   "I argued that surely such a move would remove the need for security screeners at airports altogether"

   Such a move would remove the need for security screeners at airports.

   Except for cases where they just want to do things like blow up the aircraft, and quit calling us shurley

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   jurvetson

   Nov 23, 2014 at 4:56 am

   There would be better targets. P.S. The Wall Street Journal picked up on my plan to disband the TSA

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   jgury

   Nov 24, 2014 at 3:14 pm

   i think my SPA model plan is much better. At check-in time everyone is given a standard big comfy bathrobe, slippers and wrist bands that they slip on before boarding, checking in all clothes, shoes, and personal items. Carryons get screened during changing time where the rooms also have complimentary nurses available to discuss your health needs like untreated Ebola, raging obesity, anger issues and so forth

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   jurvetson

   Nov 24, 2014 at 6:22 pm

   This sounds wonderful, a concierge high-touch service… with latex gloves. =) P.S. lots of discussion ensued with that WSJ writeup…

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   jgury

   Mar 26, 2015 at 3:20 pm

   Having a lock mode / remote override looks increasingly like a good idea. Like when you have a 600 hour co-pilot alone in the cockpit. Unreal that this kind of crew risk would become significant. Aparently it does not strike many other people as absurd that with the avionics and systems on an airbus that a pilot can program it and be allowed to fly into a mountain,
   More absurdity times two:
   Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said. “You can never exclude such an individual event,” he said. “No system in the world could manage to do that.”
   Such an individual event, no system could manage to exclude it??? And now they are using this to demonize depression, mental illness, etc. I find this more outrageous and stupid – and from more people that should know better, than depressing, although it is that too. People now have much better monitored and active home security systems, and for not that much money, than we have in these airliners.

   I should dig out some photos of an F86 that we sold, turned into a drone and blew up in White Sands NM by a company fulfilling a missile contract. And that was with 70s era tech. It could have landed via remote too if they missed! All this door hardening and procedure after procedure after screening after drink cart blocking has become laughably stupid given the tech we now have.
   [https://www.flickr.com/photos/jgury/16958010832/]
   news.aviation-safety.net/2013/12/22/list-of-aircraft-acci…

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   jgury

   Mar 30, 2015 at 4:01 pm

   That WSJ tech article photo featuring ‘Lufthansa pilots preparing for takeoff’ is totally spooky now. The only thing more prescient would be if it was an Airbus rather than a 747.
   Another absurdity point to note is that we have more stringent monitoring of groups like casino workers, bank tellers and yes, some babysitters than we do for airliner crews and cabins.

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   jgury

   Apr 7, 2015 at 12:38 pm

   Interesting to read the journalists following this

   nyti.ms/1GDQOH2

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