https://xkcd.com/2862

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Now that airlines have started adding wheel locks to their drink carts, less than half of flights have one accidentally fall out through the hole.

  • KeriKitty (They(/It))@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    Wow, has it been that long since I last flew? We didn’t even have the hole, let alone the tail gunners. Once we’d hit an aircow or two we’d have swarms of them coming at us constantly, biting at the tail of the plane. Meanwhile the first set of pilots are being replaced because the lack of cow catcher just let them right in through the front windshield. Truly a terrible experience, 7/10 would fly again but only on sale.

  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    I love diving in aviation fuel. The fuel tank seats are genuimely the most relaxing. Like an isolation tank, except you get to slosh up against the other passergers every time the aircraft makes a maneuver. nice, cozy, intimate, communal and lubey experience.

    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      I know that feel. I’m 1,93m (that’s 6’4’’ in America) and I feel DVT crawling up to me every time I sit in an airplane seat.

      • LCP@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I had to travel on a very short notice 2 weeks ago. Chose the cheapest flight I could find - Spirit.

        They have the option to bid for exit row seats and the large front seats. I bid $3 for the exit row seats and … won! Spread my legs out gloriously throughout the entire flight.

    • DNOS@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      Yeah it may sound like it but nobody tells the truth about them … If u sit there u must blink They let u chose the colour red on one side and green on the other …

  • fireweed@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Everyone’s going for the gunner seats… An I the only one whose restless legs are excited to have the opportunity to pedal?

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        1 year ago

        Imagine a coast-to-coast red eye in the bumper car seats. Or a transatlantic flight. RIP anyone on a non-stop from Singapore to NYC. And that’s assuming there’s no turbulence…

        • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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          1 year ago

          After about an hour, someone would figure out how to get the bumper cars out of the arena and there’d be a death match by the trash hole.

      • fireweed@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Fully honest audit of my cycling abilities: we never left the ground in the first place