Thursday, September 17, 2026

Prime Suspect


The 'Prime' on the side relates to Amazon Prime, tho' missing the smiling logo and possibly because it's just killed five people and injured several more.

Two things of note are (a) the generous runway length and (b) the fact that landing generally requires less of it altogether than the take-off.

The cost-cutting model that has worked so well on the ground in warehouses and elsewhere ~ not least haulage ~ sadly does not translate nearly so well into the air.

(Delivery drones, despite being as yet in limited use, appear to come to grief on a fairly regular basis; but that's altogether easier to conceal than what you see here.)

Pay peanuts, however, and you'll get flying monkeys.

Ed. The cargo aircraft overran the runway at Miami this week. We considered calling the post 'Sub Prime' instead. What do you think? And do we care?