Last October, GECAS and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced the launch of the Boeing 777-300ERSF, officially marking the establishment of a passenger to freighter conversion program for the large twin-engine widebody.

GECAS notes that the conversion of initial aircraft is expected to occur in Tel Aviv, with further conversion lines contemplated in other locations outside of Israel from 2023. Sam Chui notes that the first aircraft conversion has already begun, as a former Emirates 777 was delivered to IAI in June. //

“I’m keeping an eye on that and wondering if the whole freighter concept is now going full circle, where initially it started off as conversion of passenger aircraft and then it went into production freighters, and maybe are we getting back to a situation now where manufacturers are going to say the risk is too high,” -Richard Forson, CEO, Cargolux

“…what we’ve done as an airline is taken the necessary steps to ensure the longevity of our 747 fleet as long as possible…Besides the Antonov [An-124], which is a niche aircraft, there is not a comparable aircraft with the capabilities of the 747, especially in terms of the movement of outsize shipments.”

Period: Dec 4–17
See table of times
Peak: Dec 13–14 in Texarkana
Up to 120 meteors per hour
Parent: 3200 Phaethon
Where: Both Hemispheres

Trump has transformed the Republican Party into the working-class, multiracial party. If elected Republicans don’t pay attention to their new base, who unabashedly love the president and have reason to suspect fraud, they might find themselves in very tough primaries soon.

“[I]f the Trump campaign is premature in claiming a deceased electorate, the Biden campaign is premature in claiming Donald Trump is deceased in the race. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has referred to him in the past tense and Joe Biden as president-elect. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney called on the president to “put his big boy pants on” and concede like Al Gore even after local officials said they were still counting votes.” //

“We are finishing only the second of four stages of the election. After the voting stage, states entered the tabulation stage. We will soon begin the canvass stage, in which local districts confirm their counts and can face challenges or recounts. Finally, there is the certification stage, for which final challenges can be raised. Trump is not deceased just yet. //

“One thing, however, is abundantly clear: This is no way for any developed nation to hold elections. After the divisive 2000 election, Washington did what it always does. It created a commission that took two years and resulted in the Help America Vote Act.” //

remember what the Democrats also told us, pre-election?

Remember the picture they painted about how Trump might lead on election night; he might very well declare victory as a result, but as mail-in ballots would continue to be counted in the days after the election, Biden would ultimately emerge the victor? Why it’s “almost” like they had it all planned out. “Almost” as if they knew what would happen.

Sean Davis
@seanmdav
A source familiar with Durham’s ongoing investigation of the bogus Russian collusion operation tells @FDRLST: “Durham isn’t doing anything. Dropping his investigations. He’s worried about blowback from Biden. What an absolute disgrace.”

A separate source who has seen the evidence compiled during the course of Durham's investigation told @FDRLST this afternoon that there's "more than enough evidence to indict multiple" involved in the Russian collusion hoax operation to take down Trump. //

Keep in mind that Durham had a near open and shut case against Andrew McCabe, who had admitted multiple times to having lied to the FBI. Instead of pursing that, the DOJ decided not to prosecute. They also failed to act on a criminal referral of James Comey. In the end, the bureaucracy made sure to protect the bureaucracy. This was always about saving face for these agencies, not actually seeking justice.

For many of us this isn’t a surprise.

What these provisions amount to is an effort by Elias and the DNC to “prep the battlefield.” They know the DNC is preparing to engage in widespread efforts to dramatically increase the use of absentee ballots across the country to drive up Democrat party turnout in 2020 — this was the plan before COVID-19 fell into their lap as the perfect vehicle to justify “vote-by-mail.”

The goal was to create a system that was so onerous and burdensome that it worked as a disincentive to rejecting ballots based on mismatched signatures. The goal was to neutralize the “signature matching” requirement as a brake on fraudulent mail-in balloting.