More Millennial engineering ideas that make carpenters curse the thinner nail and busted fingers.
Who doesn’t love a good concept.
It’s about safety.....FIRST.
That policy will change right after the fist mid flight collision, which may not take long. Airline pilots aren’t necessarily the best ones, and tend to rely too much on automation.
I thought this was satire! If it isn’t, we’re dealing with mentally disturbed people here.
What difference does it make? We’ve only got 11 years left. Geez.
Although airplanes flying in V-shape formations does make for close grouping of bombs on the ground, especially if no one is shooting at them as they are dropping the bombs.
I think the millennials have ‘bombed’ on this idea.
“We just flew through his jetwash!”
Beep beep beep
All that fuel spent, flying in circles...
Coordinating the departure time of several, full planes... what could go wrong?
As if flight delays for passengers aren’t already bad enough!!
This will save energy, 99% of the time, and perhaps a little more. What could go wrong with 100,000 commercial flights per day?
WOW - what a stupid idea...
The ideas just keep getting dumber.
Another stupid, hare-brained idiotic feel-good ignorant scheme.
The logistics of getting more than 2 planes to fly in formation are more than I would impose on an airline pilot! Ok for military pilots - they have the fortitude to do it, but please, not for airlines, with passengers!
The one who proposed this needs to be in a straight jacket.
How do the planes owned by different carriers split profits and cover extra cost for lead plane? Do they rotate lead? How does switch posistion work?
Read up & watch videos of Al Bowers, and the NASA Prantl wing. Our wing twist distribution has been all wrong, birds fly like this because the catch the vortex of the other guy, shed 20% in.
Perhaps we have been doing it all wrong, birds don't need a rudder, & the Hortens stumbled into Prantl (and a few others) & they were both ahead if their time.
It’s all good until the first mid air collision. Commercial pilots aren’t the Blue Angels.
This wins the award for dumbest idea of the week. Formation plying works for large birds because they beat their wings creating compressed “waves” of air for birds behind them to “surf”. Jet engines, on the other hand, produce an unstable vortex of air which is of no benefit to any aircraft following it.
I won’t fly on with company that alters anything at all based on “climate change”.
Starting with Boeing.
It takes a real idiot to make the claims the article claims.
God help us with these know-nothings.