Rebooting commercial jetliners

I think my friend Gregory will like these: cold start of an Airbus 320 [1] and a cold start of a Boeing 737 [2] (links via Flutterby [3]).

As I was viewing the Airbus 320 video, I was struck that landing the plane [4] appeared to be vastly easier than [DELETED-starting-DELETED] booting it up! And watching how complicated it was for the planes makes the episode where Picard & Co. reboot the Enterprise [5] seem all the more deus ex machina than it already was.

=> [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqKeSO6msDk | [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEaVaXJsykY | [3] http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/15261.html | [4] /boston/2007/12/28.2 | [5] /boston/2007/02/22.1

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