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hyphenman says November 5, 2019 at 9:36 pm Narrator at timemark 3:22… “They raise the tire only five centimeters off the ground which doesn’t feel like enough room to fit a thumb, let alone change a plane tire.” Five centimeters is approximately two inches. She must have a really big thumb. : )
Marcus Ranum says November 6, 2019 at 12:48 am I saw a video of a plane that locked its brake on a hard stop then taxiid off the runway. The tires were fine -- but they were burning merrily.
Marcus Ranum says November 6, 2019 at 8:06 am I got that wrong: the tires did blow out. Then they burned. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AvXSIYXdAVQ
Mark Dowd says November 8, 2019 at 11:46 pm if you dropped a watermelon at 170 mph, it would be a mess. And so would a plane, if it had that much velocity normal to the ground. Might as well just scream “Look at me, I don’t understand vectors!”
Narrator at timemark 3:22… “They raise the tire only five centimeters off the ground which doesn’t feel like enough room to fit a thumb, let alone change a plane tire.”
Five centimeters is approximately two inches.
She must have a really big thumb.
: )
I saw a video of a plane that locked its brake on a hard stop then taxiid off the runway. The tires were fine -- but they were burning merrily.
I got that wrong: the tires did blow out. Then they burned.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AvXSIYXdAVQ
And so would a plane, if it had that much velocity normal to the ground. Might as well just scream “Look at me, I don’t understand vectors!”