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NEWS

PREDICTIONS FOR 2021

By Paul Bertorelli, author at Avweb makes some
bold and quirky predictions about the year ahead

Plying the weekend beat, Russ Niles will they promise to approve by 2080, 2130 at
cover a series of wacky, o�eat stories the latest.

ogi Berra may have complained including a powered parachute landing in Buoyed by the rollicking success of
Yabout making predicti ons being Arizona which, amazingly, did not strike ADS-B and flush with confidence, the FAA

difficult because they’re in the future, but power lines and erupt into a fireball, and will announce that it will finally field the

the poor man never could have envisioned a 737 crew - not a MAX, thankfully - that Microwave Landing System, but will keep

how easy it is after 2020. mistakenly lands on the 405 early in the conventional ILSs in place as a backup.

The only direction is up, right? I wrote morning and just lets the passengers off at Desperate to lure back lucrative business

that not so much out of hope or conviction, the Santa Monica Boulevard exit. travellers, a leaked airline marketing survey

but of sheer, undiluted desperation. The pilots will say they were blinded by will reveal that when would-be business

Still, ever confident if often wrong, here the smoke from the fires of the remaining customers were asked which they prefer,

are my bold predictions for 2021 for that six square blocks of Los Angeles not already a Zoom meeting in their underwear or a

ever-expanding universe we know as mod- reduced to ashes. In an amazing quirk of middle seat on an airplane with flip-flop
ern aviation. These are based on no more fate, Chesley Sullenberger will be in the wearing snot-smeared kids on the way to

insight or sophisticated knowledge than I first car in the 52-mile backup. Disney World careening down the aisle,

might glean from reading my own blogs. In Bored to tears after developing Autoland, 106 percent preferred Zoom. Sixty-three
other words, none at all. Garmin will announce Auto Everything, an percent will say they do put on pants.

Speaking of blogs, for 2021, all of the affordable if cheeky robot that drives itself Embry-Riddle will finally get so many

comment sections will devolve into discus- to the airport and flies the airplane to and 172s in the air at once, the City of Daytona

sions about masks. The blog I plan to write from the desired destination. Owners will Beach will sue to recover electricity costs
about masks on Feb. 24 will morph into a buy this system in droves but won’t trust it, for keeping the street lights on 24 hours a

discussion of seatbelts. so they’ll stay home and let the robots fly, day. The university will add an elective in

Marc Cook will write 63 Boeing MAX thus unmasking … er … revealing what we Zoom marketing.
stories in 2021, Kate O’Connor will write always suspected: Slipping the surly bonds Finally, will Air Venture 2021 happen? Yes,

52 and I’ll do a blog on the model’s great is overrated. It’s better to outsource it. yes it will. Because it will be revealed that
comeback success which I will some- Progress toward a new, unleaded Jack Pelton may be the only person in gen-

how attribute to the efficacy of masks. aviation fuel will move rapidly forward eral aviation who knows what he’s doing.
Readers will be too stunned to comment, in 2021. In May, the FAA will announce And he’ll prove it by selling EAA logo-wear
but Boeing stock will recover to $537.50 we should have an approved unleaded masks. Meanwhile, Happy New Year. Q
despite being fined for plumbing the lavs fuel by 2076. Unfortunately, the agency

to empty directly overboard in a cost-cut- will say, they expect all airplanes will be Article courtesy: https://www.avweb.

ting measure. powered by hydrogen by then, which com/insider/bold-predictions-for-2021/
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