How slow could a jumbo jet fly/glide without falling out of the sky?
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It could be quite a while, depending on:\n1.  Load weight (fuel, cargo, people, etc.)\n2.  Altitude when it lost power\n3.  Skill of the aircrew.\n\nDo a Google or Yahoo search for Gimli Glider
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The Russian IL-76 MDK aircraft, better known as the Flying Laboratory, simulates gravity and zero gravity.  It flies up and down on a parabolic course.  When it reaches the top and flies down, it simulates 1/3 gravity the first time. With a more steep downward angle, it simulates zero gravity for about 25 seconds.  The plane flies downward at the same acceloration of gravity.  When the plane has to fly upward out of the descent, it simulates 3Gs.  The Flying Laboratory is open to the public.  For $5000, you can experience 5 total minutes of zero gravity.\n\nThere's a similiar Boeing 727 open to the public in Ft. Lauderdale, FL that goes for $2950 per person.
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Which paper Airplanes can fly farther
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I was able to do it by pulling my butt onto an airplane.\n\nI lost my fear of heights when I was flying through the sky in a aluminum tube at 500 mph.  It's reallyt weird, but I've read about other people having the same results.
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You'd see a lot of sh*t flying!
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I would probably be too busy trying to grow wings, trying to make a drag chute out of my clothes, or aiming for a barn with a hayloft (like in a 3 Stooges bit).  \n\nEither that, or I'd be focused on making myself into as aerodynamic a form as possible for the purpose of making my impact occur head first at the highest possible velocity.\n\nIf you have enough freefall, and you maintain your body in a streamlined head-first attitude with arms flat at your sides and legs tightly together -- so that your body is like a dart streaming throught the air -- you could reach a terminal velocity from 124mph to more than 200mph, depending on your body mass and your skill.\n\nOf course, if you jumped from over 100,000 feet like John Kittinger did, you could break the sound barrier!  He did, at speeds of 714mph in the upper stratosphere.\n\nEven after deploying his drag chute, he rocketed through the stratosphere and at speeds in excess of 600mph.\n\nIf his braking and main chutes had both failed, he could have set the record for the deepest "man-made" impact crater.\n\n\nFor more about record breaking skydiver Kittinger, go to\n\nhttp://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/eagles/kittnger.htm\n\n\nAs a kid I was fascinated by stories of people who survived things that would have usually killed anyone.  For instance, there have been persons who plummeted from great heights and walked away -- like a USAF pilot whose chute failed.  He plummeted thousands of feet and impacted on a hardened concrete runway.  He walked away with a broken nose, and left a small crack in the concrete.\n\nI don't recall reading what went through his mind, but I can surmise what went through his trousers!!!
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Opening your own parachute following a delay as opposed to 'static line' where it opens as soon as you leave the plane.  Normal freefall is around 50 seconds (from c15,000 ft)
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No.  When you departed the aircraft you body would be travelling at the same speed as the aircraft was travelling.    Wind resistance would slow your body down very quickly but you would still land well ahead of the point in which you jumped out of the plane.
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Hi. Actually hundreds of miles. I saw a jet this evening heading west near sunset and the contrail was tiny, but visible. It was still in the sunlight and about 4 degrees off the horizon.
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Ambigious question.  Do you mean the AeroCommander 680?  Maximum take-off what - airspeed, distance?  This is an old aircraft.  The one I flew would come off the deck at around 95 mph, and use perhaps 1200 feet of runway to do it.
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If the plane is on a treadmill like the ones we run on at the gym, then it won't really be 'going' anywhere and will not take off because no air is passing by the wings to generate lift.  \n\nI think you might have to clarify this one further...
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it would float around aimlessly
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I am assuming that they are assuming that there is absolutely no air acting on the helocopter except to keep it up AND that the helocopter pilot can somehow go directly straight up and down perfectly without drifting one way or another due to bad control.\n\nOK there is gravity acting on the helocopter, and it's initial velocity is the velocity of the face of the earth. So again you have to make an assumption: Is the helocopter on the equator, one of the poles, or somewhere in between? If the helocopter is on the North or South pole, then it will land exactly where it took off. However, if the helocopter takes off from a point on the equator, it will remain a the same lateral velocity as the surface of the earth, but it's distance from the center of the earth (raduis of the circle it is traveling on INCREASES. This means that the earth will continue on to the EAST, so the helocopter will land somewhere slightly to the WEST of where it started!\n\nNow if the chopper is anywhere between the equator and the pole, the distance it travels to the West depends on how far from the pole it is. We know it will not move from it's spot on the pole, and we know it will move the furthest at the equator. So the distance would be somewhere between those two. But there is MORE... If you are not on the equator, you have a north or south component to your velocity because of the fact that you are tuning to the side in a circle away from the equator. This makes sense when you consider that you are rotating in place when you are on the pole. So in addition to landing slightly west, you would also be flung slightly toward the equator for and starting spot between a pole or the equator. So the answer is that if you are in the northern hemisphere, you will drift slightly SOUTHWEST, and if you take of in the southern hemisphere, you will drift slightly NORTHWEST.\n\nThe teacher may as you, "how can we tell how far to the west we will drift?" Well remember the difference in radius between the earth surface and the height of the chopper? Well the higher you go in that 12 hour span, the slower your angular velocity, meaning the longer it takes you to travel along the circle you are tracing. Obviously if you climb up 1 foot, you will not be very far from where you started 12 hours later, however, if you use you imagination, and rise up to 1,000,000,000 miles in a second(assuming you ignore gravity from the sun and other planets), and drop back down to earth in the last second, you would be very close to the other side of the world. So somewhere between those two extremes is exactly how far you will drift.\n\nDon't be tempted to think that the helocopter will be in space somewhere due to the idea that the earth is moving around the sun because that becomes negligible when you consider the strength of gravity at a low altitude.\n\nIf your teacher wants you to assume the atmosphere is acting on the helocopter then you need a meteorologist to determine where the helocopter lands.
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Yes since it would reach it's terminal velocity after a few feet. &  DUE TO THE DRAG IT WOULD NOT ACHIEVE THE SPEED OTHERS are THINKING IT  would ACHIEVE.Given that air is present .
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In the US, see the FAA web site, FAR part 103. The aircraft must not be capable of more than 55 knots calibrated airspeed at full power in level flight.\n\nDo you know there is a special category for aircraft questions?
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Unless the quake causes several metres of vertical movement while the aeroplane is flying low, it won't. Air distributes replacement rapidly in all directions.\n\nFor an experiment, light a candle, stretch out your arm so that your fist is a few centimetres from the flame. Draw back and strike with your fist back to the original position. The flame will flicker a bit, but most likely won't go out.
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Commercial planes generally travel at over 200 miles per hour.  Even if the plane were traveling as slowly as 80 miles per hour when it crashed, you wouldn't be able to offset that speed.  If you jumped, maybe you could knock off 5 to 10 mph off of that.  You'd be better off staying in your seat with your seatbelt buckled.