Ask any anxious flyer what worries them the most about flying, and engine failure will almost certainly appear somewhere near the top of the list. The words alone sound terrifying. Part of the problem comes from the way movies have trained us to think about airplanes. In films, engine failures are often portrayed as […]
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Watching airplane wings bend during turbulence can look terrifying. For many nervous flyers, it is one of the most alarming things they see during a flight. The wingtip rises and falls. The wing bends like a thin sheet of metal. The entire structure appears to flex in a way that seems completely unnatural. For
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Takeoff is over. The aircraft has accelerated down the runway, lifted into the air, and started climbing. For a brief moment, everything seems straightforward. The engines are loud. The airplane is gaining altitude. Your brain can easily connect the noise with the feeling of climbing. The engines suddenly become quieter. The climb feels different
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