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Aviation nerd. I explain the plane stuff. Facts you'll want to tell a friend.

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@xAviation The pilot himself, Darryl Tarr, confirmed his radar altimeter read just 6 feet beneath the keel at one point during this pass. 6 feet, on a jet that size🤯🤯 He went on to fly 777s for Emirates afterward, so whatever they train on in Zimbabwe clearly works!

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@flightradar24 Calm and methodical.

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@Thom_astro We tend to forget but.. that suit is the smallest crewed spacecraft there is! Life support + oxygen +a backup thruster pack if you drift, all built in. So, a one person spaceship.. Beautiful shot!

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@EmbSpainUK Enjoy, friends!

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@USCAnet Look at the 2019 column. Spain +16%, Germany?? -10%!! Southern Europe didn't just recover they took over!

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@NASAhistory The utimate flex for celebrating a birthday.

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@airlinevideos @YouTube It was an awesome landing!

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@MCCCANM The math assumes that airlines want speed but NO, they don't. Boarding order is a product they sell!

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@minchen_t Terrifying!! Glad you're okay. Reminder to everyone too, belt on even when the sign's off!!

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@9vsyl Beautiful capture !

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@Fahadnaimb Also worth adding this clear air turbulence has been getting worse over the yrs as the jet stream strengthens.

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@Aerovances They ended their famous side by side landings just this year... was awesome to watch. Thing is those runways sit only 750 ft apart & so the FAA finally called that too close..

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@StepanWB @ParisAeroport Every time I fly out of here I think the same thing. No other country would put a serious wine cellar between you and the gate!

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@NASA_Marshall Remember the story? when back in 1973 a Concorde chased an eclipse just like this one across Africa, flying fast enough to stay in the moon's shadow for over an hour. On the ground you get a few mins of total eclipse, these guys got more than 1hour! still the record..

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@DjsAviation Love this jet🤩and still in service. A handful of DC-10s still fly today as air tankers dumping thousands of gallons on wildfires in seconds. So it went from airliner to ...firefighter!

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@AFnewsroom Great news! Opening up Latin America from the islands.

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@emirates Most airlines dropped economy amenity kits yrs ago. It's a small thing that says a lot!!

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On the hottest days like right now, some jets physically just can't take off at full weight. Thin hot air = less lift & less thrust, so airlines start leaving bags or passengers behind. It's why extreme heat has grounded flights in places like Phoenix entirely!

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Summer flights die on smthng nobody thinks about => crew hours! Pilots & cabin crew have hard legal duty limits, & enough delays stacked up will hit that ceiling. Then a perfect good jet full of passengers just sits there, going nowhere..

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In summer, airlines are flying every jet they own with nothing in reserve. One breaks & there's no plan B, just a delay that chases that aircraft through every flight it had left that day.

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Summer is the hardest season to run an airline. Every seat's full, every jet's flying, so there's ZERO slack in the system. One storm or one closed runway and the whole thing backs up with nowhere to absorb it..