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Do you have any source for your claims?
by zymhan 9y ago
Do you have any source for your claims?
- hueving 9y agoThe planes regularly face 300 MPH+ winds in normal flight because of their speed.
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- tempestn 9y agoThat's not evidence that an additional 180MPH would be harmless. For one thing, those 300MPH winds are normally only in one direction.
- hueving 9y agoThe plane moves relative to the wind it is in. A 180mph cross wind, head wind, or tail wind only affects its ground speed. I've been on flights from Asia to the US with a 150+ mph tailwind in the jet stream making the ground speed 700mph+. However, from the perspective of the air frame, it's still just traveling at a normal speed relative to the air it's in.
- zymhan 9y agoSo I'll take that as a "no" that you don't have any citations or professional/academic experience to talk about airframe stress dynamics in a hurricane.
- hueving 9y agoWhat citations would you like beyond basic reasoning skills? Planes don't fly relative to the ground, they fly relative to the air. Unless the wind is gusting from 0 to 160 (which is not how hurricanes work), there is nothing to be discussed here. The earth rotates at 1000 MPH and you don't see people wondering if cars can handle that. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/34433/how-are-extreme-winds-aloft-handled-and-how-do-they-affect-flight https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/34433/how-are-e...
- zymhan 9y agoBecause air moves in more than one direction. Wind shear is a serious threat to passenger aircraft.