I'm looking forward to this.
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Originally Posted by Ungermann /forum/post/21252585
Point is, no one is saying that they must fly real airplanes and shoot them... er... from another real airplane. It is just that as a viewer I want to see that the filmmakers did as much as they could considering budget constraints. It costs nothing to verify airplane weight, for example. A friend of mine threw a space-themed child party and drew the Solar system on a black sheet of paper. Mercury and Mars were sharing the same orbit. Sure, our world will not collapse because of one silly picture, but if you feed people with junk, they will know nothing but junk. Maybe this is exactly what the higher-ups want the people to be - a gray mass of beer-drinking sofa-sitting TV-watchers.
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Originally Posted by flint350 /forum/post/21221495
Well no, not really, but we're diving into the techie weeds of aviation here, so this is likely OT. The higher speed required is due to increased angle of attack for the weight and will extend the landing rollout distance. And the wings are not designed to withstand the flex stress of the extra fuel in them during touchdown, as well as the gear and other components. Speed is the least of the issues unless you are dealing with a very short runway. And while I'm not sure of your meaning about takeoff being "much easier to deal with", I think most pilots I know would tell you that takeoff emergencies or abnormalities are far more worrisome than landing.
I'll leave it at that as I'm sure we're boring everyone else and I have stopped watching this show anyway, so I can't really comment on the reality of how it was shown. And while I never played a pilot on TV, I was one and have faced this situation before, just not in a B707. (And I prefer helicopters anyway - 110kt vs. .83 Mach just isn't the same)
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Originally Posted by gameboy /forum/post/21264882
I don't think you realize that you are arguing against a guy with an aerospace engineering degree. I have designed my own airplanes. As a pilot you may have a working understanding, but I don't think quite grok the physics involved.
You don't need increased angle of attack. You need more lift, which is why you have to travel faster. The increase in speed will cause increased stress on landing gear when you do land.
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Originally Posted by Jediphish /forum/post/21396077
Don't know if this is the network making a push to get the show out there or simply a sign that it's headed for a permanent grounding, but ALL NINE EPISODES (in both SD and HD) are currently available for FREE at the iTunes Music Store.
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Originally Posted by Rutgerskid /forum/post/21596060
I really hope there is one more episode...I enjoyed the last episode a lot.
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Originally Posted by igreg /forum/post/21646433
Were women that promiscuous back in the early 60's? Not only the mores of the time, but also the lack of widespread use of the birth control pill.
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Originally Posted by Church AV Guy /forum/post/21645711
Still, twelve or not, finding someone unwelcome in your room at night should have raised more of an alarm, at least my wife thought so. How'd he get in there?
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Originally Posted by slowbiscuit /forum/post/21648184
I don't know what they were thinking - that whole deal with the kid was weird and they never explained how he was able to go anywhere he wanted. Made no sense.
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Originally Posted by TalkingRat /forum/post/21644015
They'd have been better off never showing this episode at all, rather than have it placed so far out of order on so many subplots. Having nearly a month between episodes didn't help, but it was even more jarring to have so much make no sense at all, until I saw Slowbiscuit's reminder that this was that out-of-order episode. Clearly this was not an episode that could easily be run out of place. If I'd known how badly this messed up the storylines, I would have skipped it entirely. Ah well, just one more episode and it's done. The audience really fell off this week, no telling if it's due to the one month gap, or publicity that it's a dead duck, or being warned that this episode made no sense here.