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nakujua wrote:UpcomingPaperChaser wrote:kysse wrote:Would like a flight expert to explain why planes take off like they do.
It gets on the run way as it positions itself for take off. Then takes off with speed and just when you think its about to ascend it comes to an abrupt stop!
And the engine starts running again.
In less than 5min it runs like mad before taking off like a jet.
Its the most tense moment esp if your your seat is located near the wings.
So is the first phase a warm up ya engine?
Then someone tell me how an oversized person can fit on that slender plane to Arusha- Forgotten its name. Brother, i also wondered about the same because i paid a visit to the cockpit after we landed at Moi Airport Mombasa, and the captains seat looks so small and tiny, a 6'5'' person weighing 100kgs cant seat there comfortably. And then that take off thing, its like the plane gets chokozwad because it starts from 0 speed and within 10 seconds you are going at a terrific speed!!! The take off sounds exciting, is it like those high rise building lifts, that ki 'whoooooo' sound that one hears especially when it's doing express mpaka top most floors. Then that Ka monumental period when the lift is coming to a stop, that Ka feeling as if it's falling. Can't imagine the view especially over the oceans, must be breath taking. I have also heard sifa za the nuts served on the planes, nasikianga they are the best. Shida is that at 35000 ft you don't see much except the endless forest of clouds below, looks like a massive layer of cotton wool. If you look horizontally or up its an endless bluish gray space. If there are no clouds one can see the ocean though coastlines are quite interesting. Ships are also visible looking like tiny cockroaches. During the night one can see city lights below.
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