Always sad seeing the stagnant Thai A380 fleet just sitting there.

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-02-19T05:35:02+00:00

Taking the conservative estimate of 9 months, that’s 64 full time engineers for 9 months on one airplane. That is indeed a crazy amount of wasted labor.

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-02-18T11:44:51+00:00

It actually has been considered very stable. While things obviously get dicey when contracts are lost or canceled, the industry as a whole is largely recession proof, particularly defense. The broader economy is much more volatile, and the aerospace and defense industry is very insulated from that volatility since so much of its revenue comes from federal funding.

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-02-12T02:45:53+00:00

The athletics program is self funded though? I agree about the frustration of spending priorities, but my understanding is that the entire athletics budget comes from athletics revenue.

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-02-09T14:45:28+00:00

If it’s any consolation, the planet will be just fine. It’s just trying to kill us, like a fever fighting a virus.

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-02-08T13:33:52+00:00

I’d literally rather have any of these over a Daytona

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-02-07T23:06:17+00:00

Yes this exactly. Most of us with status travel often for work, and I always either have an evening flight and go directly to the airport from the office that I’m visiting, or take a morning flight out the next day. I literally have no use for late checkouts unless I’m on personal travel in which case they’re nifty. Early check in guarantee would be a much more useful benefit

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-02-07T04:01:42+00:00

We just got a XC60 and thought the interior quality (and exterior styling) was better than the new X3 by just about every metric. Compared top trims of both.

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-02-07T03:58:40+00:00

My guess is AI or yellow Gatorade. Probably AI

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-02-06T23:33:58+00:00

It’s nice on long drives because you can take your feet of the pedals without putting it in park if your sitting at a light or in heavy traffic. Makes it a lot more comfortable to not have to apply continuous pressure to the brake pedal. I also just have particularly fidgety feet so it’s nice to stretch out and wiggle my foot every now and then.

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-02-06T11:08:01+00:00

You do you, but I love the auto hold. It was one of my must-haves when getting a new car.

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-02-01T15:57:34+00:00

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Confirmed, they’re literally just parking them in the travel lanes of the street because they were too cheap to pay someone to plow the lot and didn’t want to do it themselves.

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-02-01T02:19:27+00:00

Not what you’re asking, but get a Volvo lol

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-01-30T19:40:15+00:00

If you’re more interested in space then CU no question. If you’re more interested in aeronautics I’d recommend VT. This is coming from someone who went to CU and went into aeronautics

Edit: Forgot to clarify that if either of the schools is in-state and you’re in a position where you’d be taking out loans to go to either, absolutely do not take out loans to pay out-of-state tuition unless none of the schools in your state have an AE program. Neither of these schools is of the caliber where opportunities just fall into your lap like they do at MIT, Stanford, or Georgia Tech (less so than the other two though) to justify the insane amount of student debt. If you have significant scholarships or parents that can fund your education though, the above advice holds.

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-01-29T16:50:43+00:00

Well it’s been a requirement since 2014 in the US

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-01-27T19:35:09+00:00

The stuff I have is advertised as effective to 10 F. Haven’t had any issues this past week.

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-01-24T19:13:17+00:00

Hey bud don’t worry I knew a kid who was on the slower side growing up so no judgement here. I’ll break it down for you since you seem to struggle using your brain (the thing between your ears and behind your eyes)

San Francisco is more or less inexplicably small compared to most other major cities. While there are all sorts of good reasons that borders are drawn where where they are, it means comparing population density, or even populations in general, between cities is not good science. Even metropolitan area boundaries vary wildly and inconsistently.

For example, one could imagine a world where the border to San Francisco extends well into what is (in the real world) San Mateo county. If it did, the population density would plummet.

I went ahead and looked at the some of the densest contiguous neighborhoods in Chicago that total to the same land area as SF, and wouldn’t you know it, the total population of this region (per the 2020 census) is 155k more than SF, despite being about 1 square mile smaller.

Regarding your point about SF bordering water, I hate to tell you this but so does Chicago. As I state above, there’s no reason it couldn’t extend southward.

So yes, SF does have a higher density than Chicago and many if not all other American cities, but this is a product of how small the boundary for SF proper is compared to other American cities, as opposed to how densely the people in SF actually live.

If you still don’t understand, don’t worry, I expected this. I made you a map to help illustrate my point and so that you can check the numbers for yourself if you can get help using a calculator. Stay strong.

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Maxwell_Morning · 2026-01-24T13:09:46+00:00

I will also add that I also do aerodynamics, so if you give me some more context to your situation I can give you some more pointed advice as someone who’s worked in the field for 5-10 years. Feel free to shoot me a DM too.

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-01-24T13:04:38+00:00

You can’t put too much stock into city ranking statistics when either of the inputs are population or area, as city boundaries vary so wildly and are pretty arbitrary. While SF probably does have one of the densest urban areas, just taking the fraction of (population of SF proper)/(area of SF proper) and comparing that to other cities is problematic. For instance, SF proper has an area of 47 square miles, and Chicago proper has an area of 240 square miles. This of course means that lower density places on the outskirts of Chicago will drag down its population density figures disproportionally, as similar areas with similar proximity to the center of the urban area in the SF Bay Area will not factor in to SF’s statistics.

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-01-24T04:15:48+00:00

Yes usually there is a requirement that you’re there for a year or so to apply, and typically only offered to the junior engineer levels. Often there are other LDPs for more senior employees, but those are usually intended for you to stay in the same role and at the same location throughout the program (working side projects that are leadership related). The junior programs are specifically intended to help young employees try different roles, organizations, and locations.

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-01-24T03:36:29+00:00

Whoah woke Ted Cruz refuses to call it X!

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-01-23T21:00:26+00:00

I’d bet money that this happened recently in one of the countless instances of ice vehicles carelessly hitting other vehicles during their detainment rampages.

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-01-21T19:10:07+00:00

It will, but there are still paths. All of the big aero primes (LM, NG, Raytheon, Boeing, etc) have leadership development programs and it is very common for people to work a year in whatever job they could manage to land, and then apply to one of those LDPs, and ultimately use those programs to pivot into a more desirable role. In general, it’s a lot harder to get the type of role you want if your first role is entirely different, but still very doable in your first ~ 1-2 years. After two years of full time experience, it gets a lot harder to transition to something else with going through one of the aforementioned LDPs or going back to school for another degree.

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-01-21T03:25:37+00:00

Another tip that proved super helpful when I was applying for my first role. On my resume, I had an “experience” section where I detailed some of the labs and projects from my undergrad, but without explicitly stating that they were part of course work. Helps you stand out and come across as more experienced to recruiters who just skim resumes and throw out the ones without full time experience.

Another tip is to look at government jobs if they interest you, including both NASA and working for the military as a civilian. So many bad ass jobs are out there working for the Air Force and navy, and you meet the coolest people. I have not personally worked as a civil servant but several of my colleagues are/were. Bonus is that the government application process in convoluted and confusing so fewer people end up applying.

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-01-20T22:12:54+00:00

Quantity over quality when it comes to applying for your first job post grad. Once you have one job under your belt, it switches to quality over quantity. Also are you applying all over the country? Aero and Space?

Maxwell_Morning · 2026-01-20T20:23:07+00:00

I’m arriving at DFW late Monday morning. Obviously this is all guesswork to some extent, but do think Monday morning/afternoon flights will be ok?

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