Aviation

Boom and Bust in the Supply of U.S. Air Force Pilots

May 7, 2018 Aviation

This past fall in San Antonio, I was part of a small group of former Air Force pilots briefed on the current pilot shortage.. Now the issue is written up in Foreign Policy:  USAF pilot shortage: What’s Driving the U.S. Air Force Pilot Shortage? Folks in the System Dynamics (SD) community are quite familiar with this […]

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To Better Understand, We Need Better News Coverage of Malaysia Flight 370

March 20, 2014 Analysis

A colleague and friend, knowing of my history flying large Air Force transports internationally, and who’s intensely curious about the fate of Malaysia Flight 370, has sent me a string of emails, most with the subject line: “does this make any sense?” My first response, and one which is still correct was this: “It is […]

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