"Who knows, maybe some day, one of them will get lucky, or even figure it for real."
For all we know, they have. It's just none have survived their initial success, so we never hear about it.
The problem with being unable to imagine possible future outcomes from current data is, they have all had to discover the hard way that, in aviation of all types, it's not the takeoff or the flight that matters, so much as the nature of the landing.
You can soar like an eagle all you like, but if you land like a falling brick...
BulletStopper 0 points 9 months ago
For all we know, they have. It's just none have survived their initial success, so we never hear about it.
The problem with being unable to imagine possible future outcomes from current data is, they have all had to discover the hard way that, in aviation of all types, it's not the takeoff or the flight that matters, so much as the nature of the landing.
You can soar like an eagle all you like, but if you land like a falling brick...