Albert Clark

A Hydrogen Bomb During Your Scheduled Flight

This article examines the physical consequences of a thermonuclear detonation from the perspective of passengers aboard a scheduled commercial flight at cruise altitude. Following the event from the first nanoseconds of energy release through thermal radiation, electromagnetic ef...

346 Dead - and Boeing Is Still Asking Pilots to Work Around the Software

The Boeing 737 MAX disasters killed 346 people and exposed profound failures involving aircraft design, automation, human-factors assumptions, corporate safety culture, and federal regulatory oversight. This article examines those failures against the emergence of a new flight-ma...

346 Dead - and Boeing Is Still Asking Pilots to Work Around the Software

The Boeing 737 MAX disasters killed 346 people and exposed profound failures involving aircraft design, automation, human-factors assumptions, corporate safety culture, and federal regulatory oversight. This article examines those failures against the emergence of a new flight-ma...

Area 51 Replaced? Dugway Proving Ground is Not Area 52. It's More.

Dugway Proving Ground occupies a distinctive position in the history and continuing development of United States defense research. Established during World War II as an isolated weapons-testing environment, the installation evolved through chemical and biological research, defens...