🚨 JUST IN: A California judge has officially APPROVED the $110B merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery.
CNN is now going to be under Larry and David Ellison, who are major Trump donors.
This is amazing 😂🔥
Let the Democrat meltdowns begin.
🚨 URGENTE: El Ministro de Defensa de Israel dice que el ATAQUE a bordo del vuelo de Flydubai fue un “ataque terrorista yihadista frustrado gracias a varios pasajeros israelíes. El terrorista solo tenía una intención: estrellar el avión con todos a bordo”.
Les voy a tratar de explicar de una manera sencilla cómo hizo el Boeing 737 MAX de Flydubai para continuar volando, controlar la situación y finalmente realizar un aterrizaje seguro después del daño sufrido en el timón de dirección.
No es la primera vez que sucede algo así en aviación. Existen antecedentes de aviones que perdieron una parte muy importante, e incluso prácticamente todo el estabilizadorvertical, y pudieron continuar volando.
¿Cómo puede un avión seguir siendo controlable si pierde una superficie tan importante?
Primero tenemos que entender algo básico.
En un avión convencional, el timón de dirección controla principalmente la guiñada, es decir, el movimiento del avión alrededor de su eje vertical.
Pero el timón de dirección no es el que hace que el avión vire de la manera que mucha gente imagina.
Para cambiar de rumbo, el avión utiliza principalmente los alerones para inclinarse. Una vez establecido el alabeo, la sustentación que generan las alas tiene una componente horizontal que hace que la trayectoria cambie.
El elevador, por su parte, permite controlar el cabeceo y mantener la actitud necesaria durante ese viraje.
Entonces, ¿qué pasa si perdemos buena parte del rudder?
El problema principal pasa a ser la guiñada y la coordinación del avión.
Puede aparecer una cierta descoordinación, porque ya no tenemos la misma capacidad para controlar el movimiento alrededor del eje vertical.
Pero eso no significa automáticamente que el avión sea ingobernable.
Mientras sigamos teniendo alerones, flight spoilers, elevadores y suficiente autoridad aerodinámica, todavía podemos controlar el alabeo y el cabeceo.
Incluso en determinadas condiciones se puede aceptar cierta descoordinación y utilizar el alabeo para modificar el rumbo.
Y acá aparece otro elemento muy interesante en un avión bimotor como el 737.
Los motores están instalados debajo de las alas y pueden generar empuje asimétrico. Esa asimetría produce un momento de guiñada que, dependiendo de la situación, también puede ser utilizado para ayudar a controlar la dirección del avión.
Por eso la pérdida del rudder no significa necesariamente que el avión deje de responder a los comandos.
Eso sí: hay una diferencia enorme entre perder parte del timón de dirección, perder todo el rudder y perder además el estabilizador vertical completo.
Son situaciones aerodinámicamente muy diferentes.
Y esto tampoco significa que un avión diseñado para volar normalmente sin daños pueda simplemente “prescindir” del rudder.
Significa algo mucho más interesante:
un avión de transporte tiene varias formas de controlar su trayectoria, y una falla grave de una superficie de control no implica necesariamente una pérdida inmediata de control.
La historia de la aviación tiene varios ejemplos reales que lo demuestran.
Y justamente por eso, lo que ocurrió con el 737 MAX de Flydubai merece ser explicado desde la aerodinámica y no solamente desde la espectacularidad de las imágenes.
Detrás de ese avión que vemos llegar a tierra con una parte importante de su cola dañada, hay algo fascinante:
todavía quedaba suficiente control aerodinámico para llevarlo hasta una pista y LA PERICIA DEL PILOTO.
🚨 AWESOME! President Trump just gave major props to Boeing after its 737 Max jet withstood G forces and strain "FAR BEYOND" what it was designed to during the FlyDubai terror attack plunging
EVERYONE LIVED.
THE JET IS A BEAST.
"It was an amazing show of precise and powerful structural planning and design. It is about time that The Boeing Company, which builds, by far, the finest commercial airliners in the sky, was given credit for this airplane’s incredible “genius!” To Kelly Ortberg, and all of his officers and associates at Boeing, congratulations on a job well done!!!" 🇺🇸
It plunged 14,000 feet in around 30 SECONDS. They still managed to land it safely
He asked ten times for the suitcase so he could change before meeting the Prime Minister. But Netanyahu didn’t care.
Yaniv came off the replacement flight into Ben Gurion still in the shirt he wore in the cockpit. The blood stains were the attacker’s. He apologized for it like a man late to a wedding. Netanyahu pulled him in, called him the honor and the hero, and asked how he’d done it.
Yaniv didn’t give a speech. He said we’re a nation of lions. Then he introduced his wife Meital and his daughters, because that’s what you do when you’ve just pulled a diving aircraft out of a hole and the first thing on your mind is not to look sloppy for the country’s leader.
The plane was about an hour from home when the lights went out and someone screamed. The stabbed captain got the door open before he went down. Yaniv went in, pulled the man off the instruments, called two others, and hauled the yoke back because the nose was pointed at the ground. He later said he knew what to do because he had watched Air Crash Investigation.
That’s a civilian deciding, in a split second under immense pressure and chaos, that the aircraft was not going to finish the job.
Western capitals will spend the next week talking about procedures and statements. What this video actually shows is the thing the West lacks in equal measure.
Israelis still move toward the door. They still put their hands on a man who is trying to kill everyone on the aircraft, then worry about a suitcase, then stand there with their children while the Prime Minister touches the blood and doesn’t flinch. That instinct is why our people are still here. The rest of the West keeps waiting for someone else to open the door.
I’m so proud, more than ever today, to be an Israeli. The world can hate us all it likes. We fight to save innocent lives no matter what the cost. Our enemies kill innocent lives for a false god and a fake prophet. And the rest sit terrified of shadows, watching their own demise, shouting at the only people who refuse to die at the hands of savages.
Am Israel Chai 🇮🇱💪🏼
He asked ten times for the suitcase so he could change before meeting the Prime Minister. But Netanyahu didn’t care.
Yaniv came off the replacement flight into Ben Gurion still in the shirt he wore in the cockpit. The blood stains were the attacker’s. He apologized for it like a man late to a wedding. Netanyahu pulled him in, called him the honor and the hero, and asked how he’d done it.
Yaniv didn’t give a speech. He said we’re a nation of lions. Then he introduced his wife Meital and his daughters, because that’s what you do when you’ve just pulled a diving aircraft out of a hole and the first thing on your mind is not to look sloppy for the country’s leader.
The plane was about an hour from home when the lights went out and someone screamed. The stabbed captain got the door open before he went down. Yaniv went in, pulled the man off the instruments, called two others, and hauled the yoke back because the nose was pointed at the ground. He later said he knew what to do because he had watched Air Crash Investigation.
That’s a civilian deciding, in a split second under immense pressure and chaos, that the aircraft was not going to finish the job.
Western capitals will spend the next week talking about procedures and statements. What this video actually shows is the thing the West lacks in equal measure.
Israelis still move toward the door. They still put their hands on a man who is trying to kill everyone on the aircraft, then worry about a suitcase, then stand there with their children while the Prime Minister touches the blood and doesn’t flinch. That instinct is why our people are still here. The rest of the West keeps waiting for someone else to open the door.
I’m so proud, more than ever today, to be an Israeli. The world can hate us all it likes. We fight to save innocent lives no matter what the cost. Our enemies kill innocent lives for a false god and a fake prophet. And the rest sit terrified of shadows, watching their own demise, shouting at the only people who refuse to die at the hands of savages.
Am Israel Chai 🇮🇱💪🏼
Know your real Avengers 🚨
- Captain Smit Machchhar, who fought the attacker and opened the cockpit
- Asaf Redjuan, who rushed at the attacker
- Israeli dad Tzvika Mans, who tied the attacker with a cable so he couldn't move
- Yaniv Hayon, who handled the aircraft and kept it stable
- Dr. Shota Musaev, who treated the captain and stopped the excessive bleeding.
They all worked together and made sure all those 180 passengers landed safely. Truly, men are brave 🙏