US Infrastructure

[Marauder06]

It was never meant to be a permanent agency; it was codified to draw down through the 40s, I want to say the projected end date was 1950, but I need to look that up. As y'all said, WW2 ended it prematurely.

I think there are some good things about reviving such a program, but the government costs would be enormous.

I think that's the big sticking point. People visualize it as kind of a civilian Army, but they forget how hard it is to get enough good people into an organization that will do the kind of backbreaking labor that the CCC will do, and also how much it costs.

There are sooooo many other things young people can do that don't involve being out side with the sun and the snow and the mosquitoes, and sooooo much public assistance, subsidies, scholarships, etc., they don't need CCC.

 

[amlove21]

... large airliners catch fire on runways before takeoff all the time?

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/united-airlines-fire-plane-houston-20134970.php

 

[amlove21]

...planes collide while taxiing on runways all the time?


Delta Airlines, Japan Airlines planes collide on the ground in Seattle

 

[AWP]

...planes collide while taxiing on runways all the time?


Delta Airlines, Japan Airlines planes collide on the ground in Seattle

They are in the last few years. It goes back to ATC staffing and crippling shortages. Those shortages are so multifaceted I wouldn't know where to begin. DEI/ EEO, draconian hiring practices, a demanding job and its wash out rate, less controllers means more hours worked, etc. it's a long list.

Something Bagram and Kandahar did, was the new guy started out as a ground controller. Imagine being the new guy at a major airport.

Back in the early 2010's, some of our controllers waited up to a year to be hired by the FAA. Experienced military controllers, now working as contractors at a pretty busy base, and it took the FAA a YEAR to hire them? Black, white, male, female...didn't matter. Not "waiting on a school date", but waiting to hear back from the government at all.

 

[amlove21]

They are in the last few years. It goes back to ATC staffing and crippling shortages. Those shortages are so multifaceted I wouldn't know where to begin. DEI/ EEO, draconian hiring practices, a demanding job and its wash out rate, less controllers means more hours worked, etc. it's a long list.

Something Bagram and Kandahar did, was the new guy started out as a ground controller. Imagine being the new guy at a major airport.

Back in the early 2010's, some of our controllers waited up to a year to be hired by the FAA. Experienced military controllers, now working as contractors at a pretty busy base, and it took the FAA a YEAR to hire them? Black, white, male, female...didn't matter. Not "waiting on a school date", but waiting to hear back from the government at all.

The decimation of our infrastructure is insane.

 

[DA SWO]

...planes collide while taxiing on runways all the time?


Delta Airlines, Japan Airlines planes collide on the ground in Seattle

Looks like JAL is a Boeing 787. I'm guessing that the crew forgot to fold the wingtip.
Crew error.

 

[TLDR20]

Looks like JAL is a Boeing 787. I'm guessing that the crew forgot to fold the wingtip.
Crew error.

The 787 doesn’t have a foldable wingtip, so that would be quite the feat.

 

[DA SWO]

The 787 doesn’t have a foldable wingtip, so that would be quite the feat.

You're right, I was thinking 777.
Still the crews responsibility to taxi safely.

 

[AWP]

It doesn't help that airports weren't designed around modern jumbo jets.

 

[AWP]

To follow-up with @amlove21's earlier questions, I ran across a couple of neat things. (Because sleep is stupid, right?)

NTSB aviation accidents by month. NTSB - Aviation Accidents - Index of Months Jan. 2025 has 62 incidents, with 10 of those foreign. Jan. 2024 had 92 and I didn't bother to count the foreign listings.

Here's where it gets interesting. The NTSB's database lets you do some digging with a very granular search function. https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/landing-page
One of the things you can find is NTSB safety recommendations that are open. Some of those recommendations might go to say a manufacturer, but most go the FAA which then does nothing with the NTSB recommendations. You can also look for incidents at specific airports and Reagan is surprisingly clean.