“A Place, Not a Conveyance”

Slate ^ | 15 June 2015 | Mark Vanhoenacker

[DUMBGRUNT]

The design, power, and cockpit foot heaters that make the 747 feel like home to pilots.

The 747 has foot heaters. The frozen surface of the Arctic Ocean looks better—everything looks better—when your feet are warm.

[DUMBGRUNT]

I have been a passenger on many and jumped from a few perfectly good aircraft, but know little about the front end. This was a fun read for me.

[Don Corleone]

Simply put, “If it ain’t Boeing I ain’t going!”

[null and void]

I enjoyed it too! Thanks for posting.

[Captain Rhino]

Frankly, Boeing had my vote after the Aloha Airlines mid-air decompression incident in 1988:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243

Kudos first to the flight crew that recovered the aircraft safely, then to the manufacturer (Boeing) for building an aircraft that could suffer that much structure loss and still remain both flying and controllable.

Guess it helps when your commercial airliner is designed and built by one of the world’s leading bomber manufacturers (B-17, B-29, B-47, B-52).