More accurately, the aircraft is flying to the part of Kentucky nearest Cincinnati. The airport code CVG stands for Covington, Kentucky, though the airport itself is called Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.

Kentucky is a very popular base for air cargo as CVG and SDF (Louisville) have lots of land for warehouses and are centrally located. Tennessee and Indiana are also quite popular. For shipments between North America and Asia, Alaska, especially Anchorage, is actually the ideal cargo hub location as it allows for better fuel economy (aircraft don't need to reduce cargo capacity in order to carry more fuel for longer flights) and the federal government waives certain cabotage laws, thus allowing foreign airlines to switch cargo between aircraft for the domestic US portion.

Longer, larger wingspan, can carry around the same number of people depending on class configuration, is cheaper for cargo with the -8. The list goes on.

I love the tankers, as does my son. he got to see my partners work (the plane he worked on) when we went to family day

I'm not even sure what the actionable complaint here is

> I need to know how to pay my bills

You, uh, get a job and use the money your employer gives you.

>do you have a phd in political science

PhD stands for 'Piled Higher and Deeper' and yes, I am pretty sure I qualify.

Being serious for a second, I get it. Shit's hard right now and appears to be getting worse. But like I said before, do you know who writes the laws? It's not you, it's not me. It's whoever has access to the most money to pay a lobbyist to convince their senator that their bill will make things better for them. Because then that person will donate to their representative or senator's re-election campaign.

>It's dangerous to walk around anywhere outside now!

I'd argue it really isn't any worse than last year, or the year before, and so on. Sure, you see homeless camps everywhere. But people experiencing homelessness aren't a threat to your personal safety. Sure, property crime has gone up. But what law(s) do you propose to fix that? Because if it isn't tax the shit out of the tech sector and the wealthy and give homeless people housing it won't solve anything.

But because the tech sector and the wealthy are the two most powerful lobbyists right now, they get their way and Olympia writes laws that give them huge tax breaks on the promise of "creating jobs and growing the economy."

And we've all seen how only a portion of the people benefit from that "economic growth" otherwise I-5 wouldn't be riddled with homeless camps from Shoreline to Downtown while SLU glitters with giant glass towers full of tech-bros with Herman Miller recliners they never sit in.

And if you or anyone thinks I'm wrong and my ideas are stupid, fine. Just recall when Boeing held the entire state hostage for HUGE tax breaks on the thin promise of "more jobs and economic growth for everyone!" and then reneged on their word and fled the state. They got their tax breaks, and they took the jobs away.

Edit to add: You see, that was Boeing's threat all along. "If you raise our taxes, we're leaving for the low-tax Heaven of South Carolina. So give us them tax breaks!" And sure enough, our lawmakers caved in to Boeing's bluff, and gave the Lazy B huge tax breaks. And Boeing still fled to S. Carolina. Chumps. We should just call every corporation's bluff when they squeal they need tax breaks, and instead raise their taxes through the fucking roof.

The state sued them, and collected a settlement, but big fuckin' whoop, the damage was done. And there's the problem. That collectively our entire state lawmaking body fell for Boeing's bait-and-switch act because otherwise they would lose that sweet campaign donation money tells you all you need to know about how politics works, here at the state level, or nationwide. Money has power.

Can't fix that by writing a letter.

Careful, they will think you are a republican and ignore you

Danngggggg nah but I’m just joshing with you chippy. Thanks for your generosity.

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Good work! This is exactly how democracy works! Thank you for doing this, you are an inspiration

still more useful than your email.

Here is the participation trophy for virtue signaling. 🏆

Lmao 11 minutes early departure and 42 minutes late arrival — go figure

Listen guys. This is cray. I need to know how to pay my bills, we PAY them to fix this shite. So let’s be real here. Dr., do you have a phd in political science?

congratulations on being absolutely no help to anyone, yourself included.

It’s called I said what I said chip

No. Do you?

They aren't wrong. You ramble and complain, without pointing out any actual solutions.

What do you expect your senator or representative to do after reading this? How much do you know about actual policy, about who really runs the state, and who benefits from the laws that are passed?

What particular new law would you enact, or what existing law would you modify that would fix the things you are complaining about?

Fire

Lots of people care about aviation history. And while I’m excited about the 777X, an airplane that will do everything and more a 47 can do and do it better, the 47 is an iconic airplane that defined the careers of thousands in the region. Its ending production is a big deal even if you don’t care about it.

do you want anyone to take your message seriously oooor?

Not very nice considering I don’t have hands to type. Wow really sensitive chinpo. Thought you wouldn’t go there lul

seriously, it reads like a highschool kid writing a note to a friend. you really used lol in there. like, what?

do you just go around nitpickingly correcting people all day? some have longer bodies, some have wider wingspans, but whatever the case, i used it as the phrase "on to bigger and better things". jesus, man.

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The -9 is such a cool airplane, but I’m biased because I work on them. I also can’t wait until production re-starts.