Engineering Marvels

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Planes don’t have to be in perfect working order to be safe you can loose ~1,500,000 of those 2,000,000 parts and be fine. The redundancy is what makes it safe.

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  • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For the curious: en.wikipedia.org/…/Master_minimum_equipment_list?…

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Akin to that old astronaut joke, “My life depended on 150,000 pieces of equipment – each bought from the lowest bidder.”

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• realitista@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m in awe that you are safer every time you get in a plane than every time you get in a car .

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  • dr_robotBones@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s what happens when you leave operating the industrial death machines to the professionals. Its insane how much our society relies on regular people operating 2 ton death machines. Regular people.

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    • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They don’t just leave it to the professionals though: there’s always a lot of interest in any aircraft crash investigation which helps drive the motivation to employ all the professionals that make it safe.

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• Patrikvo@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  People can be so dramatic. We’ve flown aircraft for nearly a century and in all that time, not one, ever got stuck in the sky. Every single one of them landed. That’s an 100% succes rate!

  I get, people are scared about crashes, but we have plenty of examples where the aircraft hit the ground at a very high speed and not a single passager complained afterwards. Again reaching 100% custumer statisfaction at even the worst landings.

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Doesn’t help that the airport posting this is mine

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