Poor Lou Gehrig. Died of Lou Gehrig’s disease. How the hell did he not see that coming?
“It’s like Speed 2, but with a bus instead of a boat!”
I think that was called The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down.
- Discover some social justice cause that is fundamentally emotional in nature and of no practical relevance
- Come up with an aesthetically ugly “solution” that everyone hates
- Don’t bother consulting with the people that supposedly benefit from the change
- Push it on everyone anyway at great expense
History sure repeats itself a lot…
“We should have you at the gate in just under two hours–two and a half if we get pulled over.”
That’s a pretty expensive taxi ride.
That depends by what’s meant by top taxiing speed. On commercial runways, the top allowable speed is 35 mph. But jets can go at least 180 mph, which is a typical take off speed for a heavier jet, and I assume they could go much faster. I’d think a 360+ mile taxi ride is going to be significantly more expensive than a flight over that distance.
I wonder what the land speed record of a flight-certified vehicle is.
African or European?
Is it on a treadmill?
Thank you. I had no idea what this cartoon was about, without your exegesis.
The Last Man on Earth had an episode where the main character and his wife toured the post-apocalyptic U.S. by taxiing from town to town in a stealth bomber.
The highest claim I found online was for a damaged Israeli F-15 that made an emergency landing supposedly at 260 knots, or 300 mph. I doubt that was sustained more than momentarily though. The highest takeoff speed, which presumably indicates an ability to maintain that speed against wheel drag, was the Concorde which reached 225 mph before liftoff.
Long ago I read of a Luftwaffe Bf-109 that was damaged over Germany and the pilot set it down on a highway. The engine was fine and he had plenty of gas so the pilot taxied some 15km back to his airfield.
Certainly, the highest taxi speed is going to quite nearly coincide with the lowest take-off speed.
Sorta relevant thread from a decade ago:
Here’s a 20yo thread from shortly after I joined.
Should I be concerned that I remembered both my posts and just had to go search up the thread they went into?
I would imagine the wear on the landing gear would be substantial. They might not even be able to take the heat generated for longer than a takeoff or landing usually requires.
Go sit in a corner with your face against the wall and think long and hard about what you did there!
That’s the usual mode of operation, but do airplanes have configurations that reduce lift (or even negative lift)?
I guess that is how they manage to land.