{"id":6244,"date":"2014-05-01T10:26:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T00:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/?p=6244"},"modified":"2014-05-01T10:26:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T00:26:39","slug":"modern-jetliners-are-more-capable-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/2014\/05\/01\/modern-jetliners-are-more-capable-than-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Jetliners Are More Capable Than You Think."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your typical flight is a pretty sedentary affair with the vast majority of your time being spent either in level flight or waiting patiently on the tarmac. You&#8217;d be forgiven for thinking then that that&#8217;s all they&#8217;re capable of, transporting people from point A to point B and any deviations from that could spell disaster. In fact many modern airliners are capable of performing many feats you&#8217;d think would only be in the realms of jet fighters, albeit in a slightly different fashion. Boeing&#8217;s new 787 (called the Dreamliner) may look like your traditional jetliner but below that somewhat plain exterior beats the heart of an aircraft capable of doing some really impressive things:<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"?? Impressive Qatar  Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner Flying Over Farnborough.\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OmqLsEhoOzY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>By far the most impressive maneuvers in the video are the extraordinarily tight turns that it&#8217;s able to accomplish, something which just seems impossible given the immense size of the craft. The short duration land and re-take off is equally impressive, especially considering the incredibly tight turn that it performs straight afterwards. Of course performing these kinds of maneuvers with a bunch of people in the plane is ill-advised but it shows that a modern airliner can really move if it has to, something which is critical in times of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d remissed if I didn&#8217;t link the equally impressive video of one of Boeing&#8217;s first jet liners doing a barrel roll, all the way back in 1955:<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Boeing Jetliner does a Barrel Roll above Seattle Seafair (1955)\" width=\"668\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CLDr54dlw6s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your typical flight is a pretty sedentary affair with the vast majority of your time being spent either in level flight or waiting patiently on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[4887,4889,4642,4888],"class_list":["post-6244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-airliner","tag-barrell-roll","tag-jet","tag-plane"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppBqt-1CI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}