I would never fly on this.

"Frank Grimes" (FrankGrimes) 01/23/2016 at 16:26 • Filed to: None

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Isnt the fuselage the very thing keeping the plane together?

Blondude > Frank Grimes 01/23/2016 at 16:27

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The plane is designed to save you if it falls apart. The catch is it will fall apart halfway through every flight.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Frank Grimes 01/23/2016 at 16:31

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Neo nautical orthodoxy returns to the airline industry to ensure that pilots go down with the ship.

Birddog > Blondude 01/23/2016 at 16:31

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At least you’ll make it halfway to any destination.

McMike > Frank Grimes 01/23/2016 at 16:35

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Engine #2 had to be shut down, the pilot is just jettisoning extra weight so he can make it home.

garagemonkee > Birddog 01/23/2016 at 16:45

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And the full way to the scene of your death.

Echo51 > McMike 01/23/2016 at 16:51

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Well gotta keep the schedule, cargo or passengers be damned! He can’t afford another strike on the “late arrival” list.

ttyymmnn > Frank Grimes 01/23/2016 at 16:57

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Not really. The fuselage is really just an aluminum tube that can be filled with air so you don’t asphyxiate. The wing box and spars connect the two wings. Everything else more or less attaches to that. Still, I think this is a harebrained idea.

user314 > Frank Grimes 01/23/2016 at 17:53

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Everything old is new again:

Sikorsky had a similar idea for the CH-54 Tarhe

Needmoargarage > Frank Grimes 01/23/2016 at 18:46

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I thought the same exact thing when I saw this.

Everybody on Facebook (in their infinite wisdom of engineering and the sciences) were criticizing airlines, engineers, and Obama for not having implemented this concept already.

Frank Grimes > Needmoargarage 01/23/2016 at 19:55

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I think I must have seen similar brouhaha and noone worrying about the two dooomed pilots. HAHA

NJAnon > Frank Grimes 01/24/2016 at 01:03

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The starship USS Enterprise ship separation sequence?

I don’t think we’re there just yet.....

Frank Grimes > NJAnon 01/24/2016 at 18:31

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LOL yeah I dont think so either. especially because they always did it in space without gravity.