The complexity of air flight boggles the mind. It shows the wonder of God’s creation.
If one got in that pickle, they’d be forked.
They are very popular and fly a ton
All metals subjected to repeated stress will cause fatigue cracks.
Airplanes are designed to be as light as possible.
Which means the safety factor is as low as possible.
Only solution is rigorous inspection of critical areas.
When a minute crack begins, the plane is still safe and operable.
If you have noticed, planes land at an airport, and take off again within an hour or so.
There is just not enough time to thoroughly inspect the plane before next flight.
Still flying the modern airplane is safer than driving a car in terms of people-miles covered.
It is absolute miracle there are so few plane crashes.
From here go to Water Pilot.
A pickle fork?
Ah, that’s how you get them out of the jar!
90,000 take offs and landings. Which actually should be based on who is flying the Air Vehicle and where.. Whether it is a soft landing or hard landings and how many. Some pilots bring the plane down and you barely know it touched down. Some almost drive the landing gear through the fuselage!
Shhh...be vewy, vewy quiet. Lets sell a few more of these and let those silly people fly them. We can always claim ignorance later on.
“pickle forks...attach the plane’s body to its wing structure”
Thank God it’s something simple and non-critical. I was worried for a moment.
Since the usual team hasn’t piped up yet, I’ll beat them to it.
“It is all the fault of poorly trained third world pilots.”
After all, we all know that Boeing is perfect and always makes perfect planes.
Boeing forgot how to make planes. PC culture I’m sure has a lot to do with the problems as well as a failing higher education system and why not through in moral decay.
Pilot error...
Were these forks made in China?