flights on the newest aircraft possible :-|
flights on the newest aircraft possible :-|
It's easily the most comfortable commercial aircraft in service, f. I've done about 10 trips on the 787 now and if travelling long haul I'll choose one operator over another if they're using it. It's so quiet and the environment is so much nicer because of the pressurisation being set so much lower. After dinner just set your seat to flat, get your blankie and pillow from a hostie, and I guarantee you'll sleep like a baby all the way there.
I watched a video on YouTube of a business class flight on one of the Middle East airlines. They had separate rooms for each ticket and for the ones in the middle of the plane they installed fake windows that were screens being fed images from cameras outside of the plane. So they were getting a view of what they’d have seen were they actually in a window seat. ****ing mental.
Little tube which pokes out of the aeroplane to determine how fast you're going. On the ground you put a little condom on it to stop waspies and so forth from entering the system. If you forget to remove said condom, you can't tell how fast you're going and soon enough, soankeroo will occur.
What do you mean you can't tell how fast you are going? Just look out the feckin window and see how fast the clouds and birds are zipping by. Do you Airplane Johnnies ever actually fly sober?
Until the thirties airspeed was generally measured by a strut-mounted vane. This device was, as you can imagine, less than accurate and prone to huge position errors, but in a biplane with a stalling speed of 45kt and a VNE of 90kt this wasn't too much of a problem - anywhere in the middle would suffice for most purposes. Your 300 ton airliner is a different beast, sadly.
In a large airliner, especially at lower altitudes, is a stall basically curtains?
Actually no b. It is, as c rightly points out, an instrument that indicates the difference in air pressure of the two environments it monitors. That airspeed may be inferred from the data is undeniable, but that doesn't make it a flowmeter. A flowmeter measures actual flow. All in the name d'ye see?
An airliner behaves like any other aircraft really, so it's simply a question of whether one has sufficient height to trade for airpseed. In short, the lower the height the less the chance of recovery. (Let us not go into possible complications of a deep stall scenario in a swept wing aircraft.)