What was the worst plane in history?
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What was the worst plane in history?
On March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747 passenger jets, operating KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736, collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport) on the Spanish island of Tenerife. Resulting in 583 fatalities, the Tenerife airport disaster is the deadliest in aviation history.
What was the first flying machine called?
Wright Flyer
| Wright Flyer | |
|---|---|
| Seconds into the first airplane flight, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; December 17, 1903. | |
| Role | Experimental airplane |
| National origin | United States |
| Designer | Orville and Wilbur Wright |
What is the plane with red dots?
Survivorship bias- the red dots are where planes returning to base had damage in WWII. Engineers wanted to armor those parts, until someone pointed out that the damage was on planes that made it back and was survivable.
How safe is the 777?
The Boeing 777 is an extremely safe airplane. Having personally flown six different Boeing types at American Airlines I’d say the 777 is regarded by many of us as the teddy bear of the fleet. It flies predictably, has an excellent blend of technology, and is a rocksolid machine.
What was the flying machine?
One of da Vinci’s most famous inventions, the flying machine (also known as the “ornithopter”) ideally displays his powers of observation and imagination, as well as his enthusiasm for the potential of flight. The pilot would lie face down in the center of the invention on a board.
What was the first plane?
The Wright Flyer
The Wright Flyer, which made its first flight in 1903, was the first crewed, powered, heavier-than-air and (to some degree) controlled flying machine.
What is the survivor theory?
Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility.
Is the Abraham Wald story true?
The true story, or at least part of it. The memoranda by Wald are severely technical. There is, however, a very valuable guide to the memoranda by Marc Mangel and Francisco Samaniego, that appeared almost at the same time the memoranda were made available to the public by the Center for Naval Analyses.