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"Direct" is airline jargon for a flight where you don't need to get off and onto another plane, to get there; you stay in your seat, some get off, more get on,
by ncmncm 5y ago
"Direct" is airline jargon for a flight where you don't need to get off and onto another plane, to get there; you stay in your seat, some get off, more get on, and off you go. "Non-stop" is when it doesn't land part-way.
I don't know the name for when you have to bail out and parachute to your destination while the plane continues onward.
- nyokodo 5y ago> I don't know the name for when you have to bail out and parachute to your destination while the plane continues onward. Either D.B. Coopering, or CIA Black Opsing.
- pacificmint 5y agoThe title of the article does indeed use ‘direct’, but the article actually talks about non stop flights. The Sydney - London flight will take 20 hours.
- iggldiggl 5y ago> I don't know the name for when you have to bail out and parachute to your destination while the plane continues onward. Railways (especially in the UK) used to have something like that under the term of "slip coaches": Rear coach(es) were decoupled on the approach to a station – the front portion of the train continued at speed non-stop, while the uncoupled rear portion was braked to a stand (hopefully not stopping too early, because otherwise a rescue engine would have to be dispatched to draw it forward into the station). The heyday of slip coaches was in the early 20th century, although the practice didn't fully die out until 1960.