mid-air

If course, you're still responsible for following instructions, but you can't necessarily blame an IMC mid-air on the pilots.

Bringing the 1st stage nearly to a stop at some point mid-air should be way easier than landing it on the ground.

For one thing, all the above schemes involve first coming to an almost-hover mid-air.

I'd be satisfied with nothing less than a mid-air explosion into fine particulate matter upon engine failure.

Most fighter-to-fighter mid-air collisions occur during dogfighting practice, or during formation join-up.

It seems like they could replace the landing legs with a parachute, which they could catch in mid-air, as intended for the Genesis probe.

Breastfeeding is a tough process, how long does it take a fighter pilot to learn how to properly dock to a supply plane for mid-air refuelling?

Many will equip, but nowhere near all, and nowhere near enough to design a system that relies on every bogey having ADS-B out to avoid mid-air collisions.

Anyone touting ADS-B as a realistic solution for avoiding mid-air drone collisions in congested areas is severely naive in my opinion, at least based on current technology.

What kind of equipment do you propose to use for a mid-air recovery of a fragile rocket stage that's 200ft long and weighs a couple dozen tons?

If a serious drone delivery program (or multiple competing ones) starts, airspace will suddenly become congested and you'll have to do heavy air traffic coordination to avoid mid-air collisions.

Whose org chart freezes ideas in mid-air.

Most "ergonomic computer posture" pictures (such as this one[0]) show that apparently your elbows should be suspended in mid-air.

Or "bringing the 1st stage nearly to a stop at some point mid-air should be way easier than landing it"?

Saying "just catch it in mid-air with a helicopter," when no helicopter capable of doing this currently exists in the world, and building one that's suitable would be a massive undertaking, is intellectually lazy, not an intellectual exercise.