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                        Rebooting commercial jetliners

I think my friend Gregory will like these: cold start of an Airbus 320 [1]
and a cold start of a Boeing 737 [2] (links via Flutterby [3]).

As I was viewing the Airbus 320 video, I was struck that landing the plane
[4] appeared to be vastly easier than [DELETED-starting-DELETED] booting it
up! And watching how complicated it was for the planes makes the episode
where Picard & Co. reboot the Enterprise [5] seem all the more deus ex
machina than it already was.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqKeSO6msDk
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEaVaXJsykY
[3] http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/15261.html
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/12/28.2
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/02/22.1

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