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The unbelievably mundane answer is "training pilots".
by teamonkey 1y ago
The unbelievably mundane answer is "training pilots".
- jmmv 1y agoThe article goes through an unbelievably amount of fluff to just say that. Thanks for confirming my own read.
- xeonmc 1y agoI mean, you can’t really practice barrel rolls with a planeful of passengers, can you?
- jjk166 1y agoThere is probably a small market for people who would love to be passengers on that flight.
- Sohcahtoa82 1y agoBarrel rolls, probably not. You could fly in the "vomit comet" though and do 30 consecutive seconds of Zero-G. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced-gravity_aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced-gravity_aircraft
- bdunks 1y agoTell that to Tex Johnson: https://youtu.be/Ra_khhzuFlE?si=MxkaSRaIYFvbGqil https://youtu.be/Ra_khhzuFlE?si=MxkaSRaIYFvbGqil
- DylanSp 1y agoTo be slightly more specific - training pilots that can train/certify other pilots.
- rsynnott 1y agoHuh, yes, I was expecting this to be keeping gate allocations or something else weird (there was a certain amount of that early in the pandemic).