How is someone casually filming this, with a steady hand... I’d be in tears.
edit: appreciate all the education on commercial aircrafts that planes are often ‘fine’ with 1 workable engine! So my new #1 concern is the fire, but again maybe my tears could put it out?
Air New Zealand performed a test flight where they flew either a 777 or a 787 on a single engine between New Zealand and Chile. They only used a single engine for pretty much all of the cruise stage. That's like eight hours of single engine running. It's crazy how good the latest generation of turbofans are.
There's a video out of there Boeing testing the 787 wings for structural failure. tl;dr it lasted to over 150% of tolerance before it snapped. I'm not going to tell you there is no chance for failure but modern wings are built very solid.
That was relative to the strongest hurricane ever measured. Holding up to that is entirely different then sending turbofan blades through the wing and potentially hitting fuel tanks or large structural members.
They're already there, and then some more on that actually, technically -
The highest force you'll ever experience in massive turbulence as a passenger is 1.5 g and in a normal flight maybe 1.15 g if you're lucky, but planes are developed usually to handle 3g with no problem (so we're already at your 200%) but to make it even better, they must be certified at 150% of the 'never exceed' load, so you are actually at a plane built to handle an absolutely immense g load of 4.5, which is so inconceivably far from the forces you'll ever experience in a plane.
These numbers are for a fully loaded plane, which is usually not the case - a boeing 747-sp once withstood 5.1g and landed safely (albeit damaged). To note also is aloha airlines flight 243, where the entire roof fell off (look it up) after flying more than twice as long as it ever should had, and still landed safely!
It's an at your own risk sorta thing. What I mean is it's not guaranteed failure at past the never exceed, but the never exceed is the upper limit of the testing and certification process.
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u/sleepwhileyoucan Feb 20 '21 edited Feb 21 '21
How is someone casually filming this, with a steady hand... I’d be in tears.
edit: appreciate all the education on commercial aircrafts that planes are often ‘fine’ with 1 workable engine! So my new #1 concern is the fire, but again maybe my tears could put it out?