Originally posted by: Safeway
Originally posted by: Eli
It's awesome that the plane can still fly on only one engine...
The other engine is still operational, just damaged.
Uh no. The other engine was fubar-ed so they shut it off. There's radio chatter to that effect in like the first minute of video.
Most multi-engined aircraft can fly without all the engines. Once airborne, a Boeing 747 can maintain flyable speed/altitude on only *one* of four engines. Maximum thrust is only required for part of takeoff (b/c the plane is heaviest at this point). So if a 747 tried to go from a stop with just one engine, that wouldn't work. On the other hand, if it passes the 'minimum takeoff speed' and experiences an engine failure, then the procedure is to continue, take-off, come around, and land immediately. That is, you'd be going fast enough so that stopping is unsafe and there will be enough runway left to takeoff on fewer engines (granted it'll require more runway, but runways are rather long.)
Jet engines don't spend very much of their lifetimes at max power. During cruise, the throttles are set back significantly.
Edit: I love all the pseudo-knowledge on youtube. So many people are completely talking out of their asses.
H for Hotel is the information at the airport.
The airport information is the weather conditions and runway uses at the airport, there is a letter - like H for Hotel, that identifies to the controller that the pilots have listened the information.
I hope that is clear to you.
How the fvck did this guy come up with that? It's one thing to be ignorant of what the "H" is. It's another thing entirely to have invented some bullsh1t.
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