I heard this joke on the radio from an eccentric English comedian called Tommy Cooper. “If you stand in a library and scream, everyone stares silently at you. If you scream on an aeroplane everyone joins in.” Psychologically called pluralistic ignorance. If you don’t know what’s going on around then you’ll probably join in with […]
Recently on the forum someone asked me “what is the cause of a sudden but very short lived bit of turbulence?” Here’s the answer…this picture shows what happens to the air behind a plane…not unlike a wave behind a ship at sea. You can see that the air swirls around immediately behind the wing. If […]
The fascination of aeroplanes is such that enthusiasts around the world will sit for hours watching planes come and go while listening in to the chatter between pilots and controllers on their radios.At Manchester there’s a pub …or used to be , where revellers and enthusiasts could be as close as 50 metres from the […]
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