When do we retract our flaps?
Episode 10
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Audio file
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June 17th, 2016
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1 hr 1 min
How do planes fly?
- How do planes fly? Backs up what Johnny was saying about how wings work (Explain That Stuff!)
- The physics of sailing (UNSW)
- You can sail into the wind, but not exactly upwind - The physics of sailing (Physics Buzz blog, Physics Central)
- The hipster PDA: Merlin Mann's index card system (43 Folders)
- What is turbulence? From a fluid dynamics perspective (Wikipedia)
- Turbulence - everything you need to know (Patrick Smith's Ask the Pilot)
- Air turbulence - how dangerous is it? (livescience)
- What is tacking in sailing? (Wikipedia)
- What is tacking in sailing? (School of Sailing)
- The spice routes were the 'maritime silk road' (UNESCO)
- The search for new sea routes for the spice trade really kicked off in the 1500s (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
- Trade routes followed the 'trade winds' (Wikipedia)
- Prevailing winds blow from a certain direction over a point on the Earth's surface (Wikipedia)
- How do planes fly upside down? (Physics StackExchange)
- Flying upside down (Air & Space, Smithsonian)
- Wing flaps & slats (NASA)
- More flaps: Wing flaps for lift augmentation in aircraft (Decoded Science)
- What is drag? (NASA)
- Aerodynamics, an introduction - including a description of drag (Explain That Stuff!)
- Four forces affect things that fly: weight, lift, thrust, drag (Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum)
- Powered aircraft (Wikipedia)
- Unpowered aircraft (Wikipedia)
- Unpowered flight (Wikipedia)
- Flight (Wikipedia)
- What is autorotation? (Wikipedia)
- The Gimli glider: Air Canada plane that glided to land on a race track after running out of fuel in 1983 (Wikipedia)
- The Gimli glider was recently sold...after a further 25 years of service! (Financial Post)
- Video of an aborted landing just a few feet off the ground - also shows how much wings flex (YouTube)
- Pilots have detailed checklists (Patrick Smith's Ask the Pilot)
- How a glider works...Remember the space shuttle? It was a glider! (NASA)
- Birds, thermals & soaring flight (Aerospaceweb.org)
- Birds of prey riding thermals (YouTube)
- Plane wings are pretty flexible (Wired)
- Turbulence & why you should buckle up (Civil Aviation Safety Authority)
- Headwinds & tailwinds (Wikipedia)
- Headwinds allow take off & landing on shorter amounts of runway (United Hub)
- Airport design & naming runways (NASA)
- Runway numbers explained (Atlas Obscura, YouTube)
- Airspeed versus ground speed (Aerospaceweb.org)
- Planes can levitate on the ground if it's windy enough (YouTube)
- How does a wind sock work? A pilot explains (YouTube)
- What is a jumbo jet? A Boeing 747 (Wikipedia)
- Flaps during takeoff & landing (Wikipedia)
- Thrust reversal (Wikipedia)
- Thrust reversal (Purdue University)
- Stopping the A380 (Air & Space Smithsonian)
- Rolls Royce jet engines (Rolls Royce)
- Picture: A Boeing 717 with 'petal' thrust reversal on engines (CQ Plane Spotting)
- A database of paper aeroplanes with folding instructions (Fold'NFly)
- What do winglets do? i.e. The flipped up bits on the end of plane wings (NASA)
- Winglets or 'wing tip devices' (Wikipedia)
- Why do golf balls have dimples? (livescience)
- Shark scales create tiny whirlpools for speedy swimming (livescience)
- Proper scientific paper: Shark-skin surfaces for fluid-drag reduction in turbulent flow (The Royal Society)
- Bros had flipped up fringes like winglets (Old School Pannini)
- What is a jet stream? (livescience)
- What is drift diving? (PADI)
- Flight times between New York & London slashed by jet stream's power (ABC Australia)
- The Flat Earth Society
- What is a 'great circle' & how are they used for flight routes? (AeroSavvy)
- Air distance & flight time calculator (Great Circle Mapper)
- There are flight routes over the North Pole, but probably not Antarctica (Wikipedia)
- Fonzie cool (YouTube)
- Chesley Sullenberger: the super cool pilot that landed the plane on the Hudson River (Wikipedia)
- US Airways flight 1549 that landed on the Hudson River (Wikipedia)
- British Airways flight 9 whose engines stalled in an ash cloud in 1982: Lucy was exaggerating slightly, it wasn't a 2-hour emergency...but still pretty serious (Wikipedia)
- Flying or driving: Which Is safer? (Science 2.0)
- Flying, driving or trains: Which Is safer? (AirlineReporter)
- Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum
- The Wright Brothers 'invented' aviation in 1903 (The Wright Bros)
- The Apollo Lunar Module landed on the moon in 1969 (Wikipedia)
- Sydney to London in 4 hours just got another step closer (News.com.au)
- Australian scientists just successfully launched a jet which could fly from Sydney to London in 2 hours (Business Insider Australia)
- The Concorde supersonic jet (Wikipedia)
- Concorde: 40 fascinating facts (The Telegraph)
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