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Ladies and gentlemen, Air Hollywood! A plane without wings flies about as well as any other largish tube, i.e. approximately straight down. As for a plane with
by Piskvorrr 10y ago
Ladies and gentlemen, Air Hollywood!
A plane without wings flies about as well as any other largish tube, i.e. approximately straight down. As for a plane without engines - the ~5 successful jetliner landings w/o engines in the entire history are called Miracle This and Miracle That for a reason; those things need a lot of power just to keep in the air. Speaking of which: iginted fuel would be the least of your worries - destroyed wing parts means destroyed lift; again, good luck flying a brick.
- flukus 10y agoSometimes you only need one wing: https://theaviationist.com/2014/09/15/f-15-lands-with-one-wing/ https://theaviationist.com/2014/09/15/f-15-lands-with-one-wi...
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- Piskvorrr 10y agoSee the part about "miracles": a black swan event doesn't mean that it's repeatable. I'm aware of such incidents - there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider , there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9 , there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549 - each of which is a case of great skill and great luck combined: nothing that could be adopted as standard operating procedures. Your argument is "look, people have won the lottery before, therefore it's a good idea" - an improbable happyend captures attention far more than the usual outcome of the accident lottery, which is something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191