Not every airliner is certified to land on water. The regulation that covers it opens with a conditional: “If certification with ditching provisions is requested.”…
Amazon has paused flying with 21 Air after Flight 7598 overran Runway 30 at Miami, killing five. The NTSB’s recorder data shows a 158-knot touchdown, no speedbrakes or reversers, and a go-around attempted 15 seconds after landing.
Stealth is not invisibility. Detection range scales with the fourth root of radar cross section, which is why a ten thousandfold cut in RCS buys a tenfold cut in range, and why external stores undo the whole thing.
