[conspire] Whats wrong with Boeing?! (YouTube:Mentour Pilot 2019-01-31 ...)

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Sun Feb 2 09:35:39 PST 2020


Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu):

> Whats wrong with Boeing?!
> YouTube:Mentour Pilot 2019-01-31:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_zn_x2JK5Q
> ... and not just some mere opinion piece or the like,
> but lots of history, well researched, and including
> relevant reference source materials.

Funny coincidence:  I watch that just yesterday (or the night before),
and I strongly agree with Petter ('Mentour Pilot') Hörnfeldt's
assessment.

That accent you're hearing is Swedish, by the way.  The first time I
heard that, knowing only his nom-de-Internet and not his in-real-life
name[1], I thought 'Norwegian?  No, not quite.  Something nearby.'  Petter 
is said to have launched his professional pilot career at age 15(!) and
trained to fly the Boeing 737-800 'NG' series in Sweden, eventually
ending up as a senior flying instructor for, if memory serves, RyanAir,
and lives like any self-respecting Scandinavian, in Spain.

The nom-de-Internet is taken from the name of his virtual reality
software company, Mentour 360, which specialises in the aviation sector. 
He's one of those rare YouTubers I take very seriously.


[1] The letter ö in his surname rules out Norwegian and Danish.  
Long story.  That's _not_ an umlaut, but rather ö is the 29th letter of
the Swedish alphabet.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_alphabet
(Danish and Norwegian likewise share an extended-Latin alphabet with
three special letters at the end, just different ones from Swedish's three.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_and_Norwegian_alphabet )

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