#airplanes
The British airways flight I was on had a safety video featuring various actors and actresses. It was all really nicely done. But I really liked that Gillian Anderson was in it and an X-Files reference was made. It made my day and helped with my phobia of airplanes.
The insides of a Douglas DC-3 at Lyon Air Museum located on the west side of John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, CA.
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Boeing Stearman at Lyon Air Museum located on the west side of John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, CA.
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Two P-51D’s and a P-38 from Jack Croul’s Allied Fighters Collection in Chino, CA out at Lyon Air Museum at John Wayne Airport Santa Ana, CA.
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Two P-51D’s and a P-38 from Jack Croul’s Allied Fighters Collection in Chino, CA. You never get to see this stuff here at SNA!
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HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA LAYOVER * JACQUELINE TRAVELS
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I had a quick flight attendant layover in Huntsville Alabama. I show you some of the food I prepared on the private jet I work on and walk you through some of my flight attendant job duties. Make sure you’re subscribed to my channel so you don’t miss out on any future flight attendant vlogs. Thanks for watching!
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PRIVATE JET FLIGHT ATTENDANT * BLIZZARDS AND POP UP TRIPS
PRIVATE JET FLIGHT ATTENDANT * BLIZZARDS AND POP UP TRIPS
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Hello! I take you along on my trip as a private jet flight attendant to Boston! I show you the food I cook on the private jet, extra duties I have as a corporate flight attendant and some of my layover and hotel.This was a pop up trip so that means I did not have a lot of notice or time to prepare the private airplane. That’s flight attendant life!Thanks for watching and please…
United Airlines 1996 Boeing 777-200 N781UA c/n 26945 left main gear. San Francisco Airport 2022.
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2006 Boeing C-17A Globemaster II 06-6163 c/n P-163 Travis Air Force Base airshow. Fairfield California 2022.
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1944 North American P-51H (F-51-H-5-NA) N551H c/n 44-64314 at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield California 2022.
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United Airlines 2009 Boeing 737-900ER N75432 c/n 32835 eco-skies at San Francisco Airport 2022.
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1983 Cessna T303 Crusader N217ME c/n T30300188 at Redlands Municipal Airport in California 2022.
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When engineers make paper airplanes
whaaaaaaaaaat look at this floaty chubby plane boi I love him
fun fact but modern passenger jets are actually FANTASTIC gliders! you wouldn’t think so from how chunky they look but most of them have a glide ratio a little under 20:1, meaning that even if the plane has no engine power at all and is falling out of the fucking sky for every ONE FOOT of height the plane loses, it glides forward almost TWENTY FEET!
For context:
- Actual gliders can exceed a glide ratio of 50:1, which combined with their slow flight speed means that with even a moderate updraft they can actually gain altitude without an engine.
- A typical glide ratio for light single-engine airplanes like a Cessna 172 or Piper Cub might be around 8:1 - for a variety of reasons including different wing shapes, the presence of wing struts on many aircraft, fixed landing gear, and fixed-pitch propellers which can’t be “feathered” to reduce drag. On the other hand depending on the area the light aircraft has a lot more places it can safely make an emergency landing because it can fly so much slower. For aircraft designed for short takeoff and landing a lower glide ratio can actually be better because it allows the plane to fly a steeper approach.
- I couldn’t find published glide ratios for fighter jets. But it’s bad enough that fighter pilots are told not to bother trying to land with no engines.
- The Concorde was apparently around 12:1 maximum, but that was while flying at just under Mach 1 and it would decrease to 4:1.
- I don’t know the SR-71′s glide ratio but it had the notable problem that in some circumstances a failure ofone engine while at top speed would mean the asymmetric thrust would make the plane turn sideways at mach 3 and turn into titanium confetti. Airliners don’t tend to do this.
- A helicopter has a “glide” ratio of around 4:1 (in autorotation).
- A wingsuit can apparently get up to a glide ratio of 3:1 with good technique, which is a little better than the gliding animals they imitate, but a person in a wingsuit can’t glide at a safe landing speed.
- The space shuttle had a glide ratio of around 4.5:1 at landing (and a glide ratio of DON’T at takeoff), which is much higher than the 1:1 people often talk about when mentioning how awful it was at gliding. The 1:1 glide ratio was at high hypersonic speeds, a regime where it was intentionally designed to slow down rapidly. Still, its glide ratio was so comically bad that the aircraft used to trained pilots to land it had to be modified to use its thrust reversers in midair at full power to simulate the shuttle’s combination of low glide ratio and very high speed.
- The Apollo Command Module had a glide ratio of up to 0.5.
- A skydiver without a wingsuit or a parachute can achieve a glide ratio of up to about 1:1.
The Smoke Angels.
Wingtip vortices shown in flare smoke left behind a C-17 Globemaster III.
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Pchela M1, late Soviet-era drone aircraft.
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Its wingspan is longer than an American football field. And one day, this massive airplane could ferry rockets carrying satellites into space.
This month, “Stratolaunch,” what’s being billed as the “world’s largest all-composite aircraft,” successfully completed its first flight over the Mojave Desert in California.
Pilots from Scaled Composites, LLC, an aviation firm founded by legendary aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan, flew the record-setting craft.
Rutan designed Voyager, another record-setting craft, which in 1986 was the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling.
(Image Credit: Scaled Composites, LLC)
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