Posted on 11/22/2010 3:57:49 PM PST by NormsRevenge
*psst* I don’t want to ruin to movie for you or anything....but....the ship sinks.
I’m no expert - but I believe an airliner without power at 30,000 feet has a glide path of 90 degrees.
They do, but in the bigger cities, some will be afforded the opportunity to get ushered to the front of the lines by their airline concierge.
The airports/airlines defend the practice because they say having them in the public areas causes too much commotion.
Jealousy is an ugly emotion....;)
I always preferred this “Legend of the Titanic” version by Jamie Brockett...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFYMjkFYPg
I’m no expert - but I believe an airliner without power at 30,000 feet has a glide path of 90 degrees.
Probably around a glide path of 20 degrees.
Did the ending ever change??? I told my wife I was not going to spend hard-earned cash on that movie if the ending didn’t change....
Another one who BELIEVES. Is this the night for ignorance on FR?
The plane didn't lose power. It lost an engine.
If it did entirely lose power at 30,000 feet, a plane like that would probably have to land someplace within 35 miles or so of the point where the pilot recognized the emergency. There was a plane that lost all power (It ran out of fuel.) flying across Canada some years ago. It landed more or less normally at some Air Force base in the vicinity.
Planes do not assume the aerodynamic characteristics of a grand piano when they lose power. There are gliders you know. They can stay in the air for hours (with the help of updrafts).
ML/NJ
I’m not sure there are a lot of actors who wouldn’t be out-acted by Daniel Day Lewis. Still I like DiCaprio in pretty much everything I have seen him in.
Seems like a lot of people, not you in particular, hold a grudge for him being in one of the biggest movies ever 13 years ago. I bet Sam Worthington is very glad Avatar was all about the effects and he was blue much of the time.
Well, it’s not like ‘Howard Hughes’ has never crashed a plane.
He probably requested the engine be shut down to minimize his carbon footprint.
Folks - an engine shutdown is a minor event. It has happened to a plane I was on 3 times with absolutely no danger.
(1) The Braniff Big Orange (747) from Dallas to Heathrow - Result turned back to Dallas where they had engineers, 2 day delay for engine swap because the first swap did not work.
(2) Pan Am 727 climbing out of Berlin - Result turned back to Berlin, changed planes, 2 hour delay. Since I was sitting next to the fuselage mounted engine, there was a loud bang and the passenger in the row behind nearly strangled me in his panic. (Note: do NOT panic!)
(3) British Airways from ?in USA to Heathrow - Result bemused passengers because of the flames and nothing else, continued to Heathrow where the engineers wereas per schedule.
Details please. We uncelebs want to know what he did so we can take the same action we we are on a plane with engine failure.
LLS
LLS
Who knew? Mebbe in San Fagsicko perhaps.......
I think the *only* time I've seen Di Caprio give a credible performance was his role in "The Quick and the Dead". He played a snide, cocky, brash know-nothing who eventually got himself killed, thus proving he wasn't all that anyways. In short, not a real challenge, as he was merely playing himself...
the infowarrior
Real pilots leave their engines on the ground, I fly sailplanes!
They should have just booted him out and kept going.
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