Several pithy observations on events...

First off,  Airplane related news, the fall out about the Boeing 737 MAX is continuing...now some fast facts about the airplane...
    The Boeing 737MAX is the 4th generation of the Boeing 737 which had its first flight on April 9, 1967.  The MAX was launched in 2011 and got certified on March 8th 2017.   The plane officially went into commercial service in May 22, 2017.
 
     As of December 2017, 3900 737 MAX airplanes have been ordered by the various airlines around the world.and as of March 11, 2019 Boeing had a backlog of 4699 planes, and it is the fastest selling airplane in History.
     The Boeing 737 MAX is flown by 40 different international airlines and since February 25th has made over 8500 flights internationally.
     The Boeing 737 series of aircraft is the best selling commercial airctaft in History, and there are more Boeing 737's flying around than any other type of airplanes.  The 10,000th Boeing 737 rolled out of the Renton factory on March 13th 2018.  Boeing completes an airplane every 11 hours and takes  9 days to build a Boeing 737 MAX in 9 days from start to finish.

   Aaand during the crash of the first Boeing 737 MAX, the investigators believed that the airplane was in unsafe condition and should not have been dispatched.

   Now Ethopean Air has sent the black boxes to EASA to discover what happened, rather than to the NTSB in Washington.  This is political ego's at work.  Rather than sending them to the foremost experts in crash science, they send them to the Europeans who have a vested interest in seeing Boeing lessened because it benefits the Airbus consortium.  That being said, the same could be said about sending them to NTSB.  It is a murky mess.  I work on both Boeing and Airbus and from a Chemtrail technician's standpoint, I find the Airbus more maintenance friendly.  Don't get me wrong, the Boeing people build a damm good airplane.

The USS Wasp anchored in Cuba in 1941

The wreck of the U.S.S Wasp (CV-7) located.

It was just a little before 3 p.m. Sept. 15. The USS Wasp, accompanied by her task force, was proceeding in a westerly direction through the warm south pacific seas. On the forward flight deck she was gassing her planes. Suddenly a torpedo hit her on the starboard bow, starting a gasoline fire. Soon she was hit by another topedo. Just before 3:30 p.m. the fires now out of control, reached her forward bomb magazine. There was a sudden blasting explosion; flames shot hundreds of feet into the air; boiling columns of black smoke rolled skyward. Gasoline and ammunition explosions flashed along the decks. The Wasp was doomed!

 This was the pic I remembered in the Pacific War American History books from Elementary School in Germany .
On another U.S. warship nearby was Artist, War Correspondent Tom Lea on a Life Magazine Assignment. In his painting, he has recreated faithfully the moment of the big explosion. Says he, "This painting has had a peculiar effect on me. I felt very depressed while painting it. The colors are poor inadequate symbols of the real tragedy, I do not know. It is so strange to put a howling inferno into the middle of a soft and beautiful sky and an untroubled tropic sea. Yet, that's how it was, and I have painted the truth as well as I could.

Wasp was a product of the Washington Naval Treaty. After the construction of the carriers Yorktown and Enterprise, the U.S. was still permitted 15,000 long tons (15,000 t) to build a carrier.

Wasp was the first carrier fitted  with a deck-edge elevator.

The Navy sought to squeeze a large air group onto a ship with nearly 25% less displacement than the Yorktown-class. To save weight and space, Wasp was constructed with low-power propulsion machinery (compare Wasp's 75,000 shp (56,000 kW) machinery with Yorktown's 120,000 shp (89,000 kW), Essex-class's 150,000 shp (110,000 kW), and the Independence-class's 100,000 shp (75,000 kW)).
Additionally, Wasp was launched with almost no armor, modest speed, and more significantly, no protection from torpedoes. Absence of side protection of the boilers and internal aviation fuel stores "doomed her to a blazing demise". These were inherent design flaws that were recognized when constructed, but could not be remedied within the allowed tonnage. These flaws, combined with a relative lack of damage control experience in the early days of the war, were to prove fatal.
 

Wasp was the first carrier fitted with a deck-edge elevator for aircraft. The elevator consisted of a platform for the front wheels of the plane and an outrigger for the tail wheel. The two arms on the sides moved the platform in a half-circle up and down between the flight deck and the hangar deck.

   Well the Wreck was found by the same people that found the U.S.S Hornet a few months earlier.

     And Finally a nutjob in New Zealand decided to shoot a bunch of people that believe in islam in a couple of mosque.  Well the first one was driven off by a muslim man that actually had a permit for a pistol.   Well the second one, there was nobody armed so the nutjob proceeded to shoot 60 plus people and kill at last count 49 of them.  The nutjob is an Australian immigrant who despite having the deaconian laws of New Zealand against gun ownership was able to get a couple of AR 15's.  Well the left immediatly in orgasmic joy because the person is white and he is a male and he shoots the perpetual victims of the intersectional left, the muslims they react with orgasmic job blaming white people, the NRA , President Trump and of course the AR-15, He couldn't own those over there legally.

The gun control lobby is ramping up to strike while the iron is hot to push an agenda that wouldn't have stopped this because they are going after people in general and gun owners in particular and rather than blame the evil in someone's heart they blame an inanimate object with no morals, no capacity of good or evil, it is just a tool. and usually I hear from the left when someone from islam kills somebody that ain't muslim.."Don't blame the religion for one bad person."  Well the same applies for us lawful gun owners.