Just wanted to run this idea past folks.

If you generally boycott Boeing over their safety scandals or over their extreme right lobbying contributions that support that climate denying political party, but you find yourself taking a Boeing anyway (e.g. your employer books you on one), why not show up to board the plane wearing a wing suit?

The idea is to convey the idea that a panel can fall off at any moment, inconveniently suck you out, and you have a sudden unplanned need to fly on your own. A parachute is likely too bulky. It’s kind of a way to make a statement.

I’m not sure if the wing suit can be comfortable enough to sit in and actually simultaneously somewhat functional. Would we have to choose between sufficient comfort and sufficient gliding capability, or could we have both?

It doesn’t have to be ugly. Consider those Nepalese and African pants with knee-high crotches. Those are borderline wing suits for the bottom half. When legs are spread, it could reveal something like “Boeing passenger safety pants”.

I suppose the big question would be: would a Boeing pilot exercise their discretion and refuse to carry such a passenger?

  • 14th_cylon@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    You can’t see that 10 out of 19 on that list are <40% Boeing?

    now go and count how many aircrafts from that list does that represent? when your jaw drop to the floor, don’t forget to pick it up.

    mixed fleets are just norm in the industry. for a lot of reasons. period.

    https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-well-known-airlines-by-fleets/

    And why are you trying to draw conclusions from figures that I said were 7 years old in 1st place?

    why am i dissing the list YOU BROUGHT UP TO SUPPORT YOUR ARGUMENT? because you brought it to support your argument.

    You can’t just take an arbitrary Airbus pilot and put them in a Boeing. Very few pilots are trained in both. So if you’re going to swap brands

    guess what. there are no “airbus pilots”. pilots have type rating for specific aircraft, not for an “airbus”. for example a320 pilot can’t fly a330 (not unless he has both type ratings, which he usually doesn’t have).

    and here comes the shock. guess what airlines who have lot of aircrafts also have? that’s right, they also have enough pilots for these aircrafts. and when they need to switch the aircraft, they also switch it with the appropriate crew. how cool is that? 😂

    Such as McDonald’s HQ recently buying up all the McD’s in Israel

    and that is definitely valid argument, because mcdonald and airlines have indeed the exact same business model. oh wait, they do not.

    mcdonald’s are franchises and the hq owns the corporate brand and property and just kicks out the renter whenever he decides.

    airliner has service life of 30+ years, so you don’t just swap them as buying new phone.

    man, you obviously doesn’t have as deep knowledge of the problem as you think. why don’t you just accept this wasn’t your day and move on, instead of stirring up sh.t that wasn’t even core of the original problem (it was about your brilliant wing suit idea - remember?)?