Planes, how do they work?

[[FnG]magnolia]

Hello team.

Are planes the worst thing ever? Objectively no but subjectively yes, by which I mean I am not a good flyer. Inconventient given location.

In 2012 as part of a Vietnam trip, I had a very drunken conversation with a guy on a boat just outside Halong Bay who claimed to be a **** Air flight tutor (I forget his actual job title or qualifications) and he was certain that the silver birds in the sky were not designed to kill me.

What's the bridge between engineering and psychology I need to get on with?

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

This one is a bit old, but one of my favourites to listen to with regard aircraft failures. Engine takes a bird on takeoff, carries on up and around, holds for a while then comes in to land, all on one engine. You can listen to the radio chatter as well, as cool and calm and collected as can be the whole time.

Aircraft have immense amounts of redundancy built in, and one failure will almost never cause a failure of the whole airframe.

I enjoy the calmness. It is reassuring.