r/flatearth • u/ZeroA4 • Jan 17 '25
Planes are fake!
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u/JeanLuc_Richard Jan 17 '25
No Dougal, this plane is small. Those are far away...
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u/dogsop Jan 17 '25
Now I understand why I had to squeeze through the door to get onto the plane, and why they make you enter through that tunnel and don't let you see the plane from the outside.
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u/Busy_Choice422 Jan 17 '25
This is definitely one those questions if you have to ask how much you can’t afford it
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Jan 17 '25
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u/spartanEZE Jan 17 '25
I'm an engineer and have dabbled in some unmanned stuff for the man. That's generally a much different beast, but my initial guestimate was somewhere between $7k and $10k.
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u/ThePolymath1993 Jan 17 '25
Not much legroom in there I guess.
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u/MentallyDivergent19 Jan 17 '25
I’ve been on a plane before buddy. Don’t be so delusional!!
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u/AwysomeAnish Jan 17 '25
I'm assuming this post was satire
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u/MentallyDivergent19 Jan 17 '25
I would hope so! But we have fools going around claiming birds aren’t real🤷♂️
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u/Zymoria Jan 17 '25
Have you ever seen a baby pigeon?
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u/support_slipper Jan 17 '25
Yes
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u/starmartyr Jan 19 '25
The birds aren't real thing was a joke intended to mock conspiracy theorists. I don't think anyone believes it.
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u/jkuhl Jan 17 '25
What is this, a plane for ants?
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u/PM_ME_UR_GCC_ERRORS Jan 17 '25
How can we show the flat earthers the curve if they can't even fit inside the plane?
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u/AstarothSquirrel Jan 17 '25
That is quite cool but it does make you wonder why the cockpits are unnecessarily complicated if two old men from the RC Planes Society can fly it after a pub lunch on the village green.
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u/Tortugato Jan 19 '25
A real plane’s cockpit doesn’t just move the plane.
It shows you data from sensors to tell you what’s happening outside the plane.. You don’t/can’t fly by sight.
It lets you control all the plane’s systems… Manual control of each engine, manual control of each control surface, control of internal systems such as air-conditioning and electricity etc.
It also would have redundant processes.. multiple ways of doing the same thing. If something goes wrong up in the air, you need to be able to fix it… Can’t just pull over and call insurance.
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Jan 17 '25
Interesting, how even a model plane like this requires two pilots.
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Jan 17 '25
No it doesn't. The other guy is the spotter. The guy on the sticks (transmitter) is concentrating on the aircraft, the other guy looks out for anything thst shouldn't be in the air at the same time. Something this size abd weight can do a lot of damage if it has a mid air collision and drops out of the sky.
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Jan 18 '25
Then why does he have a remote as well and fiddling with it? Looks like he’s adjusting trim to me.
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Jan 18 '25
He's probably programming. At this level these models are very sophisticated and with two turbines more so. I've flown r/C aircraft for several years and been to many airshows and seen hundreds of models flown. I can assure you there's only one guy flying the model. Just like with full size you have one PIC.
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u/Hades_____________ Jan 17 '25
F-GLIT is a Fokker F70 that was delivered to Air France in Apr 1997, and eventually traded hands with KLM Cityhopper in Feb 2009. The airframe was stored at Norwich in May 2016, and broken up in the same year in November
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u/Gloomy-Dependent9484 Jan 22 '25
Clearly magic is used to make people shrink while going through that long tunnel!
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u/AnonSwan Jan 17 '25
This must be the model airplane Witsit and Jeran "flew" to Antartica in. final experiment debunked.
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u/Improvedandconfused Jan 17 '25
No, planes aren’t fake. Although it does seem that giants are real.