• cybervseas@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    If the black box always survives, why don’t they make the whole airplane out of it? 🙃

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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          6 hours ago

          I never understood the invisible plane. You can see her while she’s inside it. How is the invisibility especially helpful?

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            6 hours ago

            I’m sure we can make something up that makes sense.

            I guess when it’s parked no one can find it. Also if it’s invisible to radar then she’d just look like a cloud or bird or something.

            Also Superman got to fly on his own, so it’s more…fair if at least her plane is invisible…?

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              Ive always wondered if Superman (or any flying tights) would show up on radar. Is a person just too small of an object? Do drones show up on radar?

              I guess i could look that last one up pretty easily if i wasn’t drinking my coffee and just scrolling.

              Ironman popped up on radar in his first movie. I guess metal might make the reflective difference. So maybe the perfect stealth plane would be covered in skin.

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                Yes. I have had a ground unit radar operator call out a “small aircraft” in a restricted zone repeatedly that we passed over (without seeing it) repeatedly, only for it to disappear and reappear again in the same general area. It was on the third or fourth pass I noticed two large birds flying wingtip to wingtip exactly where they were saying, and disappeared when the split apart.

                So the size of a bird? Maybe not. The size of TWO birds? Yes. Annoyingly so.

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                5 hours ago

                I worked in aviation for a few years. I’ve heard tons of stories about birds showing up on radar. A human size object would absolutely show up.

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                  5 hours ago

                  I was thinking about that too. But i wasn’t sure if it was a movie thing or not. Thanks.

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          6 hours ago

          Well… It broke down and nobody could do maintenance on it. They really should have thought that through.

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      6 hours ago

      How do you sell new airplanes if the old ones are still fine even after crashing into a mountain? Well, mostly fine… Just scrape all the kebab and tomato sauce off the walls, and you should be good to go.

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    3 hours ago

    Supertights + the lasso of truth + invisible plane should be enough to change the world.