planes
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Why Your Ears Pop (And What To Do If They Don’t)
Flying sick was a bad choice. Your congested ears refuse to pop and now you’re stuck on a cross-country flight, cruising at 9000m of ear-splitting agony. Here’s how to fix it.
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Cargo Plane Does A Little Tree-Trimming After Barely Making It Off The Runway
Flying a plane is a complex job. Part of that job includes performance calculations so the flight goes smoothly. As this edge-of-your-seat Rada Airlines Ilyushin Il-62 takeoff shows, somebody got something wrong.
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Please Enjoy These Planes Nailing the Most Bullshit Landings in the World
Flying can be scary even in perfect conditions. But plenty of airports around the world don’t have that luxury — especially when it comes to mountainous regions and small islands. Fuelled by a lack of travel and too much Flight Simulator, I recently fell down a rabbit hole of watching dangerous airport landings on YouTube. Please…
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Blasting Aeroplanes With Lasers Makes It Much Harder For Ice To Stick To Wings
If you’ve ever had to fly during the cold winter months you’ve probably already experienced the hassle of a delayed flight because the aircraft had to be blasted with deicer before take off. But annoying delays are just one of many issues ice build-up on a plane can cause, so researchers have come up with…