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As someone who does not like flying (I don't like heights), I will miss those planes. The large size makes me more comfortable in one.
by davidw 4y ago
As someone who does not like flying (I don't like heights), I will miss those planes. The large size makes me more comfortable in one.
- dheera 4y agoInteresting. I often feel safer in smaller (but not too small planes), where I don't see the wings visibly flapping. Something like a A320 or a 737. With 747s the wings flap up and down quite visibly in turbulence, and you can even see the fuselage twisting if the curtains aren't closed between the sections. There's also just the wall thickness to mass ratio. You ever notice that you can crash toy RC cars all you want and they never break, but if you crash a real car even mildly it's rather easily totaled?
- projektfu 4y agoNow you have me imagining an articulated-bus version of the 747....
- kortilla 4y agoAny plane at 500mph is tissue paper if it hits something. If you haven’t seen the wing flex in a 737 or A320 you aren’t paying close enough attention. It’s very obvious during the takeoff roll as load is applied or during any moderate+ turbulence.
- dheera 4y ago> Any plane at 500mph is tissue paper if it hits something. Sure, but a commercially-sold 1:500 plastic model of the same plane crashing into a wall at 1mph won't be tissue paper. Similarly, ants can lift 100 times their own weight and survive having 5000 times their own weight placed on top of them, but it's quite impossible to for a human-sized mammal to do the same.
- kortilla 4y agoYou don’t fly in a 1:500 plastic model and the model isn’t built to scale for wall thickness. What’s your point?
- capableweb 4y ago> There's also just the wall thickness to mass ratio. You ever notice that you can crash toy RC cars all you want and they never break, but if you crash a real car even mildly it's rather easily totaled? That might not be the best to share to someone who says they are being uncomfortable in a airplane, you're making things worse for them! :D
- potatochup 4y agoFull size cars are designed to crumple because its less dangerous for the occupants
- dividuum 4y agoMaybe this video helps a bit to put all that twisting into perspective? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B74_w3Ar9nI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B74_w3Ar9nI
- rootusrootus 4y agoThere's another one from way back where they bend a 747 wing until it breaks. Definitely puts into perspective how strong a wing is.
- mulmen 4y agoThe famous video is of a 777 wing. I don't believe any similar footage exists for the 747 or if the test was even performed decades before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2HmvAXcU0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2HmvAXcU0