How a Boeing looks like at Cruise Speed from an another Plane

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Born-Process-9848@reddit

300+ people inside an aluminum tube so thin you can stab it with a screwdriver, flying at almost 500 knots, at 30 to 40,000 feet.

I still marvel at it and scared at the same time.

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Goonie-Googoo-@reddit

2mm of aircraft grade aluminum isn't as thin or as weak as you may think.

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Decent_Matter_8066@reddit

Contrary, it is. A tool drop on skin is a major hazard during maintenance. And from where I am from, engineer must be consulted to determine if a ndt is required.

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Z---zz@reddit

For those not in aviation, ndt stands for nude dental technician

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SpeedoTANx@reddit

I thought it was Never Dancing Tomorrow?

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corkedone@reddit

No, I know exactly try how thin 2mm is.

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AnohtosAmerikanos@reddit

That’s like 1/50000 of a football field, I think

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BilboThe1stOfHisName@reddit

What’s 2mm in a ratio of bald eagles to hamburgers?

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SpeedoTANx@reddit

Given that the average bald eagle is about 12 cheeseburgers tall, I’d say about .2

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kytulu@reddit

I particularly enjoy it when I ask Google or Alexa to convert a metric number to "Freedom Units" and they respond with a Standard measurement.

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snarkle_and_shine@reddit

This might go down as one of the greatest television references of all time.

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highbrowshow@reddit

It’s not even close to “that’s what she said”

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TantalumMachinist@reddit

About 0.07874 inches, just over 1/16 of an inch thick.

If it's 6061 or some other 6000 series grade of aluminum, you're not poking a screwdriver through that without some serious speed behind it.

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HarryTruman@reddit

What if I throw a screwdriver an airplane flying right at me?

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TantalumMachinist@reddit

It'll make some number of revolutions before it lands in your neighbors yard.

It'll most likely bounce off their yard and then become a powerful sword for the neighbor boy.

You must find a way to defend yourself against him with his new tool.

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Gitchegumi@reddit

What, you think you can just measure 2mm with your brain or something?

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ninj1nx@reddit

Most of the world can. The exception are those still stuck with imperial units.

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TheOriginalArchibald@reddit

When you look at something every morning that's 2mm, yea, eventually you can.

... zing.

In reality 2mm isn't weak like a soda can but it's definitely still easily puncturable by a human with a sharp or heavy object. It's strong enough for flight because of the skeleton of the fuselage. As with any surface covering on most anything.

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JDinAus@reddit

80 thou is what we called it working at Boeing

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corkedone@reddit

Also, your wife is a Bigfoot.

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Goonie-Googoo-@reddit

LOL

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corkedone@reddit

Lillian, the bitch is falling down the steps again.

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Independent-Base-606@reddit

What the fuck does 'guni gugu' mean, Gus? I don't know what the fuck that shit is as to this day.

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Goonie-Googoo-@reddit

Literally watched this on a flight last month.

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Js259003477@reddit

You’re delirious

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NegativeSwimming4815@reddit

And his mother was a MURLOC

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fresh_like_Oprah@reddit

skin's thicker on the belly for protection, the top of a 747 might be 40 thou? I can't find the answer on the googler.

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fernandoz1987@reddit

When you put it like that, outside of the box… it is pretry scary/mesmerizing

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xlRadioActivelx@reddit

You cannot stab a screwdriver through the skin of a commercial aircraft, they’re typically about 2mm or 0.080” thick. I work with the stuff all day, unless you had a very sturdy and very pointy screwdriver the best you could do is leave a little dent.

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RiskyNight@reddit

Funny, because I can't think of any aircraft you wouldn't be able to puncture with a screwdriver. They all get holes in them from much lesser things. As an extreme example I once dropped a post-it note pad from about 2 feet above a carbon fiber aileron. It landed on its corner, punctured a hole in the aileron, and had to be sent back to be patched and repainted.

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Smart-Competition509@reddit

Sorry, but that dog doesn't hunt. Even uncured gr/ep material is tougher than that.

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RiskyNight@reddit

You think I made up the story for fun? What the hell is wrong with you.

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Smart-Competition509@reddit

Not a thing. Prove to me using science that your assertion makes any sense.

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RiskyNight@reddit

There's no assertion. I shared a story from my workplace. You're welcome. I'd be pretty dumb to not believe my own eyes and malfunction report that I filled out. It was an aileron on a carbon aerobatic aircraft. Only 2 layers of 90g carbon, no core material, just hollow with a couple ribs. Some of them get peppered with holes on the underside of the horizontal stab and elevator from fod when taxiing. Certified aircraft but very fragile.

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Smart-Competition509@reddit

As a 40+ year veteran in composites lamination automation, producing equipment for all major commercial, space, and defense programs, such construction makes about as much sense as that used for the Titan submersible. The fact that someone was crazy enough to feel this airworthy is unreal. The fact that someone would actually fly it is insane.

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outworlder@reddit

It's carbon fiber though, and also it's an external surface. You'll also have surfaces marked as "no step" while you can dance the Macarena inside the aircrsft. Not comparable.

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RiskyNight@reddit

I don't know what your point is. I could stab a screwdriver through any surface of the aircraft. They aren't designed for that. Did you think you were flying in a hollowed out chunk of steel?

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outworlder@reddit

From the outside, you might be able to, specially in areas not designed to resist impacts. Try that on the leading edges of a commercial aircraft. Not to mention, aircraft aren't just their skin.

I am positive there are many areas in the cockpit of the lowly 172s my aero club has that I couldn't possibly puncture with a screwdriver. But I could definitely make a Swiss cheese in many other areas, from the outside.

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RiskyNight@reddit

Yeah an aircraft would be far too heavy if designed to resist someone stabbing it with a screwdriver. That's what aircraft engineering is all about. Only making it just strong enough, and only in the areas it needs to be.

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BedCrowMancer@reddit

Not aluminum

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nwpsilencer@reddit

Depends on the aircraft, where you stab it, and how pointy your screwdriver is.

It's not like the skin is 0.080" thick across the entire fuse, on the wings sure it gets pretty damn thick. Also depends on if you're flying a turbo-fan or turbo-prop plane. ATR skins get pretty thin in some places.

Then for shits and giggles, if we're talking about a Twin Otter or helicopters it gets ridiculously thin. If you pop the floorboards up by the double doors in an Otter the skin is 0.015" to 0.020". If you're heavy enough and step in the wrong spot, there's a chance you'll go through the skin or put a massive dent in it. My boss learned that lesson the hard way, and makes it a point to remind us every time one comes in.

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barkwahlberg@reddit

I took their point to be that it's less then the depth of a screwdriver rather than it's so weak a screwdriver could easily puncture it

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Allaplgy@reddit

What screwdriver is less than 2mm?

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barkwahlberg@reddit

I said the screwdriver has greater depth than the plane skin

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Allaplgy@reddit

Yes, we all assume screwdrivers are longer than 2mm. Hence the confusion about why you would think they were talking about length of the screwdriver vs the thickness of the aluminum, and not how hard it is to stab through 2mm of aircraft grade aluminum, which is possible, but not easy.

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barkwahlberg@reddit

Because it's surprising that something so thin can be so strong

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Allaplgy@reddit

It's more like how something so light and flexible can be so strong, since 2mm of steel is barely getting scratched by a screwdriver stab, and creases easily.

But again, what does that have to do with the length of the screwdriver?

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Algapaf@reddit

A 1.5mm long one

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Allaplgy@reddit

Technically correct.

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Dry-Marketing-6798@reddit

And possibly a female piloting 😬

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Old_Man_in_Basic@reddit

What's even crazier is that both engines could literally die and the pilot can still safely land the plane. I used to be scared of flying until I realized the marvels of aeronautical engineering and flight dynamics.

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Born-Process-9848@reddit

Yes exactly. The way my father explained it was to think of the air as jello and we are flying through that. If we stop we sink in the jello. Unlike in space where there is no fat air jello.

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Bosswashington@reddit

Relevant Louis CK

https://youtu.be/oTcAWN5R5-I?si=uz_i0BI7bwqkkehS

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Born-Process-9848@reddit

You're sitting in a chair... in the sky.

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Retibro@reddit

Former aircraft mechanic here,

Good luck stabbing through most airliner skins manually, they're sturdier than you'd think.

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NoKatyDidnt@reddit

I used to date an Air Force mechanic and he would tell me that planes are exceptionally sturdy and exceptionally fragile all at once.

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Retibro@reddit

I think this particular fallacy comes from the idea that aluminum=aluminum foil.

Pure aluminum is very soft. The alloys that make up structural aerospace grade aluminum is not

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unscholarly_source@reddit

Just landed through two flights with major turbulence.. the only thing that went through my mind was: "trust the engineering, trust the people, trust the process"

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NoKatyDidnt@reddit

That’s what I always had to do on planes. I knew someone who died in a commercial crash, and I would tell myself that the odds of two friends being involved in separate plane crashes must be extremely small.

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hector_salamanca93@reddit

Miracle over the Mojave?

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whats_a_quasar@reddit

like this but faster and wings and no oxygen

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BlackholeZ32@reddit

Don't forget that it's full of highly flammable substances...

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bsee_xflds@reddit

If I’m traveling at lethal speeds I would prefer to be miles away from anything solid.

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Atomic_Priesthood@reddit

More philosophical

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morpheuskibbe@reddit

And possibly several miles after that

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ls7eveen@reddit

Wes Marshall stuff

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Existence_No_You@reddit

Lmao this is great.

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FrenchMaddy75@reddit

The "tube" is carbon fiber now. I don't think you really can stab it honestly.

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bohemian-soul-bakery@reddit

~100,000 times per day with no incidents, 99.9% of the time.

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ninj1nx@reddit

Add a few more 9s there.

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throwawayplusanumber@reddit

aluminum tube so thin you can stab it with a screwdriver,

The LEM that landed on the moon was so thin you could stab it with a pencil

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Lampwick@reddit

Well, like the Grumman guys always said, the LEM was the only true manned spacecraft ever built, as all other manned designs prior were designed to deal with atmospheric issues and therefore were a sort of aircraft/spacecraft hybrid.

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ninj1nx@reddit

You mean it was the first, no? I would say there has been several since that would qualify.

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bjornbard@reddit

At least we no longer make them out of fabric..

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Clean_your_lens@reddit

Actually we're moving back to that.

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BladeRunnerSoup@reddit

Except there's only like 2 or 3 people in that particular 744F.

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CrazyButRightOn@reddit

500 kts in a sausage casing.

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chunking_putts@reddit

All built by the lowest bidder

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ECircus@reddit

Maybe with a very strong and sharp screwdriver, a big hammer, and a lot of time, lol.

Commercial aircraft skins are incredibly strong.

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NegativeSwimming4815@reddit

Stab it with a screwdriver and show us please

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Frosty-Inspector-465@reddit

i have never been on a plane. that's not by chance either.

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IChurnToBurn@reddit

Doubt there are 399 people in there.

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Darth_Thor@reddit

You mean to tell me that this cargo plane isn't carrying hundreds of crew members? Proposterous!

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ThePrussianGrippe@reddit

Bosh! Flimshaw!

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AdOk3759@reddit

And -52 degrees outside.

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UseDaSchwartz@reddit

I try not to think about this when flying

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BreakfastMundane7384@reddit

This. No one can convince me this is normal or not a big deal 😂😂😂😂🫣🥲

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LeopardRM@reddit

The external skin of aircraft you see isn't load bearing, it's more of serving aerodynamic purpose.

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xlRadioActivelx@reddit

This is absolutely false for almost every aircraft flying today and specifically false for every single commercial aircraft. -Aircraft Mechanic

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BobThompson77@reddit

Not true. Skin carries a lot of the load. Ex aircraft mech here.

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62not61not63@reddit

Doesn’t the external skin contain the cabin pressure? Or is there a seal below the outer layer?

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Ilikebookstoo@reddit

It’s funny. The screwdriver bit. The old B-17 guys would say something similar. You could actually slap a screwdriver thru that skin. It’s a marvel and a wtf all at once.

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Afraid_Theorist@reddit

Reminds me of the quote from American Gods about faith lol

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Onoben4@reddit

"a Boeing"

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WinTemporary7493@reddit

This is not AI generated?

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BabiesatemydingoNSW@reddit

Bracing for the inevitable chemtrail comments from the mouth-breathing peanut gallery.

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GtrPlaynFool@reddit

I hope this was shot with an extreme zoom - seems a bit too close for comfort. Those things leave a hell of a wake.

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CafeSleepy@reddit

Never realised they go so fast, it always takes so damn long to get anywhere in a plane, lol.

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SummerAlternative699@reddit

I hate to be that guy, but it's "what it looks like," not "how."

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SirBrentsworth@reddit

Why is this such a common thing

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Retibro@reddit

The hero Reddit deserves.

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rvanpruissen@reddit

Thanks. It annoys me too.

How it looks OR what it looks like

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Malness_86@reddit

Look at it leaving chemtrails behind it to piss off republicans huehuehue

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radiobro1109@reddit

This view absolutely cements the 747 in my head as the queen of the skies. Just insane

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jahalliday_99@reddit

I flew in one just over a week ago, first time for over a decade. It’s such a nice aircraft even compared to the modern stuff like the 787, A350/380 etc.

It’s a really shame almost no one uses them for passenger services any more.

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the_silent_redditor@reddit

Are you fucking joking lol.

The 747 is absolute dogshit compared to modern airliners.

Give me a 380 over that rickety-ass piece of shit any day of the week.

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SelfPsychological214@reddit

Chill out lol. Of course an A380/777/A350 whatever is objectively better aircrafts but there's something special about older aircraft that can be appreciated. It's like comparing an F35 to an F4 phantom or a Harrier.

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ChucksnTaylor@reddit

you: the 747 is so much nicer than new aircraft like the 380
also you: well obviously the 380 is objectively better than the 747

Uh… you ok?

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Mean_Excitement_320@reddit

Who said the 747 is so much nicer than new aircraft?

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joesnopes@reddit

I did.

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Mikic00@reddit

I say it, easily. 747 and 777 over 787 every time. As a passenger, not watching fuel consumption or maintenance. When I see 777 I feel reassured and know it'll be comfortable flight. 787 breaks my back and my ass hurts like hell after 14 hours... On all of them.

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strangelymysterious@reddit

I totally agree. In my experience as a passenger the 747 was way more comfortable than the 787.

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outworlder@reddit

Nobody. It's this annoying tendency some redditors have to exaggerate statements and manufacture outrage.

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Poohstrnak@reddit

They never said the first bullet point. They just said it was nice, even comparing with modern airliners. There’s no implication there that it’s better. Basically just saying they still like it, even after having flown on modern airliners.

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jahalliday_99@reddit

I didn’t say it was better. I said it compared well against them. It was beautifully smooth and quiet. I was surprised actually, but then there have been multiple versions of them, the newer ones have modern engines and materials so maybe that’s the difference.

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the_silent_redditor@reddit

You’re insane if you would choose a 747 over essentially any other modern airliner. I’ve flown the 747 in all classes, and same on modern planes.

Yes, it’s a pretty plane and it’s the Queen blah blah blah.. it sucks as a passenger.

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RabidFishies@reddit

You’re kind of a cunt.

Inb4 mods: no, this doesn’t break rule one because it isn’t excessive- he deserves it

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the_silent_redditor@reddit

Imagine getting so upset at someone talking about a plane lmao.

You’re pathetically sad x

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castlite@reddit

You really need to calm down. Let people have their preferences if they are not harmful.

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SharkAttackOmNom@reddit

Username does not check out.

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Existence_No_You@reddit

Holy shit am I on r/shittyaskflying?

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maimedwabbit@reddit

Why are you being downvoted lol. Used to be a Boeing fanboy but all of the newer airbus planes are so much better in every way as a passenger.

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can_i_has_beer@reddit

might have something to do with the attitude idk

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Funny_Switch5504@reddit

Relax there

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jahalliday_99@reddit

I flew back to back in plenty of planes recently. I’ve not been in a 747 since, I reckon, 2010, and remember the modern alternatives being so much better. However this time it was better than the 787 that followed. Although I find the 787’s emit some kind of pink noise that drives me mad. I was only in economy too on all flights.

I can’t explain why, but honestly there was little to no difference. Aside from the 787 annoying noise.

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ABoutDeSouffle@reddit

LOL, username does not match.

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Drunkenaviator@reddit

How on earth can you say it is better compared to the 380? By what metric?

Far better hand flying airplane. Far better looking airplane. Far more useful airplane. (Where's the 380 freighter? Oh, wait, it can't do cargo).

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radiobro1109@reddit

My own interest. Be like your username

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fundipsecured@reddit

Agreed lol flew Korean air to Asia on a 47 recently and it was loud as fuck the whole time, pretty bouncy. The 380 is smooth as butter with a better cabin layout

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xignaceh@reddit

I flew 747 with Lufthansa from Fra to Vancouver. Amazing flight which I'll never forget

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jahalliday_99@reddit

Same flight I was on last week.

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ninj1nx@reddit

Bro what

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hotdogjumpingfrog1@reddit

Boeing what? “How a Boeing” says nothing

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DifferenceStill5559@reddit

Amazing 🤩

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SnipedByABeetle@reddit

I would like the source of this video please!

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joni-bella@reddit

It really helps one visually understand that the atmosphere really is just a fluid. The way the condensation trails form the path of travel helps you envision this as an object piercing a medium, the way we observe a submarine propelled through deep water. That air travel is even possible (and yes, fine, human survival entirely) because we are basically in a shell made of gas measly hundred kilometers thick (or whatever it is) that we can manipulate and “swim” in is kind of mind blowing.

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malcolmmonkey@reddit

Makes sense that they call it “fluid dynamics” even when they’re talking about air.

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CCsimmang@reddit

Air is a fluid :)

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poo-cum@reddit

I have felt a similar epiphany that's hard to verbalize - that planes are like basically ships that go so fast that the atmosphere is effectively thick and soupy like waves crashing underneath. The feeling of how they get buffeted and rocked around is the same, you're just a little dot tumbling around a powerful swell of fluid.

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LivermoreP1@reddit

We are living in the future

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60TP@reddit

It’s crazy how when you fly you’re getting a view that no human has gotten to see before the last 100 years

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bwal8@reddit

This is an amazing perspective I wish more people would realize.

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hemorrhoid-tickler@reddit

I need to remind my kids of this when we fly

They might take a cursory glance out the window at the wonder of human technology and the awe of seeing clouds from above...

Before turning back to their entertainment console on the seat in front of them

Can't blame them, I guess.

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Orleanian@reddit

Too busy complaining about leg room and the other humans sharing the space with them to notice.

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ImaginataryLumpy6547@reddit

And yet most people just close the window shades and play angry birds

Its wild

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outworlder@reddit

That's basically why I'm working on my PPL. You don't get the nicest views at the flight levels, as a passenger.

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LIONEL14JESSE@reddit

The first hot air balloon was in 1783. So more like 250 years.

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acommentator@reddit

Not sure they were taking balloons to cruising altitude

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RedditPoster05@reddit

Didn’t Jefferson meet the mongolfier brothers ?

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60TP@reddit

The history of extreme sports goes back a long time.

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__O_o_______@reddit

Oh hey cool, could you give me an update on the whole America vs the world thing that’s going on right now?

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noonsumwhere@reddit

We won

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jsttob@reddit

Depends on which time zone you are in.

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OGbigfoot@reddit

Japan is 17 hrs ahead of us .. the future there I say!

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Smug-Druggles@reddit

Or timeline..

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nutn0n@reddit

This is x1 speed, right?

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fresh_like_Oprah@reddit

I don't know, I saw a 757 head on at what I assume was minimum separation and that shit looked like the intro to OG Star Trek

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joshwagstaff13@reddit

That's just 757 things.

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outworlder@reddit

Waaaawooowaaawaaawawaawaaaa

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Bon-Bon-Boo@reddit

Yes it is.

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calash2020@reddit

Modern aviation shows we are in the golden age of humanity. Wonder how long it will last. Seems completely dependent on relativity cheap hydrocarbon energy.

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MrPdxTiger@reddit

Wonder from which airplane this was taken.

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Duckbilling2@reddit

another Boeing https://youtu.be/opE6u6Fj5Wo?si=0ulqmH7pIC4lUnF3

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Lampwick@reddit

Watched entire video, saw only Lockheed F-22 aircraft. Where Boeing?

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Intelligent_League_1@reddit

They are still wrong but it's technically the Lockheed Martin - Boeing F-22. Boeing had an important rule in developing and manufacturing the F-22.

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Duckbilling2@reddit

https://youtube.com/shorts/S4uwJpCxjFo?si=EXudBspBSZ-_klu9 there you go, it's a Boeing

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Duckbilling2@reddit

oh sorry here you go https://youtu.be/53AnhaMVbKs?si=BZcbz5eHFymv7ehe

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pornborn@reddit

Awesome video!

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nobblit@reddit

Hey can anybody tell me what song this is pretty please?

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Rough_Bill_7932@reddit (OP)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uOiTKIXczZo

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aQUantUMchiLD1@reddit

That’s both fascinating and terrifying at the same time

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pm_me_lulz@reddit

Watching this video for the first time I could somewhat get a sense that “flying” is really floating on air.

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Ok-Dot-3396@reddit

Is it possible that the TCAS or the airplanes activated? It seems soooo close

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tyhopho@reddit

Damnit stop turning my frogs gay!

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koltontrombly47@reddit

My toxic trait is I think I could ride the wake with a tow strap and a wake board…

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barkingcat@reddit

The funk is all you need.

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ApprehensiveSpare925@reddit

Chemtrails!!!

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mferrare@reddit

It cruises at quite a high angle of attack. More than I thought.

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Axe_Care_By_Eugene@reddit

I could watch this all day

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jokimega@reddit

That's one hell of a fast plane! 😲

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NotCook59@reddit

Looks quick

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Logical-Recognition3@reddit

She’s got some pep in her step.

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doomiestdoomeddoomer@reddit

So bloody cool!

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MustangBarry@reddit

What a Boeing looks like / How a Boeing looks

That drives me crazy. I hate being educated

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Clear_Split_8568@reddit

Cool vortex/wake.

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Temporary-Option1625@reddit

Chemtrail 😳

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sels1997@reddit

Hauling ass

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burnsniper@reddit

This has to be MS Flight Sim.

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outworlder@reddit

How nice of you to assume MSFS has decent fluid dynamics simulation.

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bacondesign@reddit

MSFS looks real good in certain circumstances but not this good and not with contrails.

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Lampwick@reddit

but not this good and not with contrails

Yeah, as an engineer, I can confidently say that I wish there was that degree of fluid dynamics simulation available. What there is is good enough, but it's certainly not being used by MSFS!

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castlite@reddit

No.

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seavisionburma@reddit

Cargo aircraft. No livery.

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ttystikk@reddit

I'm fascinated by the pattern of vapor behind it as the 747 flies towards the camera; you can clearly see the volume of air displacement as it passes.

That set against the backdrop of clouds is a vision of beauty beyond words.

We live in a truly special and amazing era.

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alloDex@reddit

If you imagine air as a visible fluid, the plane really looks like a fast jetboat atop water. Never really saw it so plainly before.

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ttystikk@reddit

The vapor from the engines DOES make the air visible and yes, you can see the plane displacing the air it flies over. It's an incredible shot!

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Independent_Wrap_321@reddit

It’s like Louie CK said: “you’re sitting in a CHAIR, in the SKY! It’s a MIRACLE.”

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InternetWide2294@reddit

Yeah but the fuckin internet SUCKS

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ttystikk@reddit

Who needs the Internet when you can stare out the window?

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LateralThinkerer@reddit

Airplane nerd: The Queen in her glory!!

Fluid mechanics nerd: Look at those vortices -they're not even dissipating. Gorgeous!!

Conspiracy nerd: The chemtrails...oh god..the chemtrails...!!

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AbuAnas_15@reddit

That is a lot of chemtrails 😁

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TwoElksInaTurtleNeck@reddit

Reavers.

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Specialist-Many-8432@reddit

Dam praise the camera man!

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shit_ass_mcfucknuts@reddit

Don't forget that it's like -50⁰ up there too.

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nauticalfiesta@reddit

Its always so crazy to see another plane in the sky when flying. Up there it feels like you're just loafing along. Then you see a plane zip by at 400+ mph and its just crazy fast (in perspective.)

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thatsagoodpint@reddit

This is the coolest view I’ve ever seen

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Tagracat@reddit

r/titlegore

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clingbat@reddit

Those massive chem trails making all the frogs gay....

/s

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MysticMarauder69@reddit

Those are some big chemtrails, must be a large dose, probably somewhere over a big city. Obviously not over Florida though, because our savior, Ron DeSantis made chemtrails and weather mods ILLEGAL. 🤔🥰

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martianfrog@reddit

AI!

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enigmatic407@reddit

So cool

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whattteva@reddit

I'd like to see a video of this, but with Concorde at cruising speed.

Unfortunately, that's nothing but a pipe dream. I think even a picture of Concorde at cruising speed is ultra rare (only one that I know of) due to it being so fast and not many aircraft can match it's speed to even attempt the feat.

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newtomovingaway@reddit

Where are the windows

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Lampwick@reddit

It's a 747 freighter. Cargo doesn't need to see out.

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onemice@reddit

It’s running VxWorks as I remember. Windows isn’t realtime OS, therefore it can’t be used in such important matter.

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newtomovingaway@reddit

Oh this is a sim

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Old-Cream6210@reddit

No matter how many times I see videos like this, I'm always mesmerized.

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outerfkingspace@reddit

And just think....it still takes hours traveling that fast to go around the world. Which is is huge and yet so tiny.

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Majestic-Taro8437@reddit

Same here. I will always find this stuff fascinating and hypnotically beautiful.

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TipToToes@reddit

“How it looks” or “what it looks like” but NEVER “how it looks like.”

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spacemoses@reddit

This is really cool

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digrappa@reddit

One of the coolest looking planes ever made.

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mohamadjb@reddit

Ai? How did the video rotate more than 90 degree ?

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GregMilkedJack@reddit

Never seen chem trails that up close

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BigJellyfish1906@reddit

Downvote for “how it looks like.”

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NarrMaster@reddit

How it looks.

Or.

What it looks like.

Not both.

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MountainCry9194@reddit

Chemtrail machine in max spray mode today

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Droodforfood@reddit

747-8f?

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Bon-Bon-Boo@reddit

747-400F

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Redredditin@reddit

Nice chemtrail there

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Anxious_Double5557@reddit

The “chemtrail” people must freak out over this clip.

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Mysterious_Silver_27@reddit

747 is love 747 is life

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meshreplacer@reddit

Wow they are really pumping out the chemtrails.

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ShiroHachiRoku@reddit

Look at the sheer volume of that vapor! There’s no way that would all fit even if the fuselage was converted into a tanker.

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Darth_Thor@reddit

Modern chemtrail scientists have finally found a way to compress fluids to make it all fit

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ShiroHachiRoku@reddit

The atomic de-bigulator coupled with the macro compression matrix worked? I thought that was just a fairy tale they told us at Upstairs Chemical Engineering University?

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ProphePsyed@reddit

r/doohickeycorporation

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badbatch@reddit

They're spraying phase 2 of COVID (v19.2.0) so they can activate the vaccine microchips!

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jimibimi@reddit

And a pinch of Tylenol laced flouride

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pencilsharper66@reddit

I missed the v19.2.0 update. Is that the reason I always miss the toilet when I pee?

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__O_o_______@reddit

Finally an update! Should have been a 0-day patch!

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chickenfries44@reddit

No wonder out local frogs turned gay.

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El_Guapo_NZ@reddit

Let’s drop some chem’s on the desert just in case.

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iamkeerock@reddit

No /s required

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Publify@reddit

Should have /s your comment at the end

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iamkeerock@reddit

Apparently.

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modfather84@reddit

You missed a comma:

“No, /s required”

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TechRyze@reddit

How a Boeing looks like

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KorahRahtahmahh@reddit

How did they record this

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Mysterious-Glass-977@reddit

Gem Trails!!!

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cowboyonthetail@reddit

All them chemtrails how beautiful

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trealdealticklemydil@reddit

Fish

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mega_low_smart@reddit

I remember when I used to see this in Florida before they made chemtrails illegal /s

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N0madZ@reddit

Anyone know where the original version is? I have a feeling there is a much better quality version around somewhere that I want to see.

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Great_Comparison462@reddit

"How a Boeing looks" or "What a Boeing looks like".

Not "How a Boeing looks like".

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SOGGY-TORTILLA-X@reddit

chem trail caught in HD

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M1guelitoo@reddit

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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InnerBreath2884@reddit

holy shit thats actually cool

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deleted_by_reddit@reddit

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fearyaks@reddit

REAVERS!!!!

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Vau8@reddit

Somebody shoot! Wake up Jayne!

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Public-Cookie5543@reddit

It is fucking glorious, in itself and symbolically

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FyreWulff@reddit

Sometimes I have to remember when i ride a plane somewhere this is what it looks like from the outside and i try to not think about it too much. My brain just sort of compartmentalizes it as me riding in a bus that shakes like a city bus but also has food on it

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Ordinary-Relief-7946@reddit

Wonderful footage, thanks for the post.

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AsleepValue4219@reddit

Missile is faster can take out the aircraft

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Mediocre_Gur9159@reddit

Those contrails are illegal in Florida. Kill your jets now or face the wrath of FL.

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No_Nons3ns3@reddit

Nah, he got his afterburners on 😂

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GenericWoofer@reddit

Im confused, are the chemtrails jokes serious or just sarcasm?

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jahalliday_99@reddit

Sarcasm and jokes.

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3delStahl@reddit

Source? Ist there a full resolution video of it?

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peatoast@reddit

I love the theory of relativity!

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PatchesMaps@reddit

Boeing

Does Airbus have a different chemtrail dispersal system or something?

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kMaestro64@reddit

The EU regulations are stricter than the ones from the land of freedom!™️ So Airbus can't disperse as much as Boeing.

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justacheesyguy@reddit

How a Boeing looks ✅

What a Boeing looks like ✅

How a Boeing looks like ❌

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malcolmmonkey@reddit

Thank you!

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papadoc2020@reddit

I can't wait for someone to tell me how much chemical they're dumping right there.

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malcolmmonkey@reddit

I’m not going to say that but I will say “how it looks like” is wrong

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throkanye@reddit

Anyone know the song?

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Rough_Bill_7932@reddit (OP)

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=rty3b_uOxLY&si=Bxm7vWTqT32fVgzr

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ttystikk@reddit

Seems like the version is a little slower in the OP.

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throkanye@reddit

Thanks!

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Nearly_Pointless@reddit

They really had the chemtrail cranked up!

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anteup@reddit

Cathay?

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BrewCityChaserV2@reddit

Didn't someone just post this>?

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fjbruzr@reddit

I saw that plane in a post, but I can’t find it. It was parked at an airport.

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Small_Plum_6185@reddit

Cool.

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taotdev@reddit

That's not a Boeing

You can tell because its not in a million pieces on the ground

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domedirtyfatman@reddit

Chem trails!! They are poisoning us!! AHHH

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kevdroid7316@reddit

That's pretty sick.

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wstsidhome@reddit

What altitude was this at, and what plane was it filmed from? Absolute brilliant video…I can’t believe they’d show the chem trails being used in real time

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AideLongjumping1767@reddit

Does everyone in the real world agree the trails are just temperature differentials and condensation?!? I’m not crazy. Right?

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Thisguymoot@reddit

Absolutely. And they’re more pronounced when the humidity rises in the upper atmosphere—we get wispy cirrus clouds, often a preview to stormier weather. This is a unique view, with high contrast and some cool filtering to make all the vapor look super solid, but it’s the same thing. Gorgeous shot.

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pornborn@reddit

Not temperature differentials per se, but moisture becomes visible when the temperature of the air reaches its dew point. It all revolves around the dew point. Even if the temperature didn’t change but you increase the saturation, you are also increasing the dew point.

Here’s a little trick to estimate the bases of clouds. If you know the temperature and the dew point for a a given location, you can estimate the cloud bases using the “standard lapse rate” of the atmosphere which is 3.5°F (2°C) per one thousand feet (305 meters). So if it’s 81°F and the dew point is 60°F and there are clouds present, the bases of the clouds would be at about 6,000 feet.

81°F - 60°F = 21°F
21°F / (3.5°F/1.000 ft) = 6,000 ft

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