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Had to rant....living in rural France has its "perks" sometimes. Every time there's an event on the coast (or during summer), it's full of tourists. Not too bad, but bandwidth takes a nosedive. They added fiber optic, 5G and all that, but the "nodes" remained old infrastructure and there are...

It's an amazing sport. I know someone who did a similar thing. Started with sailplanes, went on to get a pilot's license and become a commercial pilot, then decided to go back to gliding in his spare time. I only flew a few times as a passenger, but I had the chance to take the controls a few...

Peak 80's thrash metal, although I can't help seeing them as a sort of glam version of Slayer

Makes me wonder how lucky we are that all the Starship-related ground RUDs were relatively mild, but there still is time.

looks like Elon's got some competition 😂

It won't really matter until they actually recover it one way or the other. Until then, they can keep on doing their suborbital hops, it doesn't seem to matter much. If it starts getting RUDs again, move on to V4, V5 etc, all plagued by similar issues but hey, it's a new version, so "it's to be...

Well, booster boom, Starship boom... Where have I seen this before ?

That doesn't look like RCS

Looks like loss of attitude

Flaps moving because.... reasons?

Looks like a fail, but we'll see

Or not

There is/was something like that for the more advanced Delta-Glider models. Not as an MFD, but as an onboard computer. You had a series of codes to input , to start the right "program" etc