Why Planes Fly So Low
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- As soon as a large jet takes off from an airport, the first thing pilots do is take the plane as high as possible, as fast as they can. Few people know that the average passenger airplane usually reaches its cruising altitude of 6 to 7 miles in the first 10 minutes of the flight. On the other hand, each airplane has its own optimum cruising altitude, which is based on its weight and some other characteristics.
The average cruising altitude of a commercial airplane is between 31,000 and 38,000 ft. At this altitude, the air becomes thinner. As a result, aircraft can travel more easily and, even more importantly, burn less fuel. So, can't modern planes rise even higher than that? Or even fly to space?
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TIMESTAMPS:
Supersonic passenger airliner Concorde 0:44
Why planes fly at a height of 35,000 ft 1:28
... and why they can't fly higher 2:00
Although, one aircraft could! ✈️ 3:35
What a spaceplane is 🤔 4:56
What about helicopters? 🚁 5:49
How fast planes fly 7:34
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SUMMARY:
- Few people know that the average passenger airplane usually reaches its cruising altitude of 6 to 7 miles in the first 10 minutes of the flight.
- By flying at a height of 35,000 ft, planes manage to avoid bad weather, such as high winds and heavy rains, raging in the lower layers of the atmosphere.
- While flying higher, a plane needs more time to get back to a safe altitude. And during an emergency like rapid decompression, every second counts.
- If a plane climbs too high up, the air gets too thin to provide enough lift to keep the machine up.
- While flying at a lower altitude, airliners can also rely on the assistance of wind. But that high up, they would waste too much fuel to stay aloft.
- There was one aircraft that could fly way higher than usual commercial airliners. It was NASA's Helios Prototype, an ultra-lightweight, flying wing aircraft, and it reached the unprecedented height of 18 miles!
- When an airplane is fast enough and has big wings that can support it in the air, the atmosphere does the rest of the work and holds it aloft.
- Admittedly, there are such things as spaceplanes. These are vehicles that can fly like an airliner in the atmosphere of our planet and maneuver like a spaceship in the vacuum of space.
- Talking about choppers, they’re mostly used for flying short distances and usually don't rise higher than 10,000 ft.
- As for small planes, most of them have an engine that resembles the one in your car. As a result, it can handle only relatively short flights at a height of no more than 15,000 ft.
- Today, most commercial airliners are powered by turbofan engines which work best at a speed of 400 to 600 miles per hour.
- There’s no point in moving any faster than that because, in this case, planes would waste too much fuel and air travel wouldn't be so cost-effective anymore.
- the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, with a cruising speed of 650 miles per hour, can transport 291 passengers and uses just 19 lbs of jet fuel per mile.
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The cruising altitude of a commercial aircraft is between 31,000ft to 41,000ft.
And the Concorde stopped flying due to burning of nitrogen oxides which severely damaged the ozone layer of earth
after 40 k feet its called the zone i dont know what zone tho i dont remember
@@choppedwatermelon6331 Damaging the Ozone layer was an after thought or what they shared, but it was just too expensive to operate.
Because accident of air France Concorde but i don't know tu 144 accident
Actually its usually 31,025 feet to 41,025 feet
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Thumbnail: Why Can’t Planes Go Higher?
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It's also worth noting that the Air France Flight 4590 disaster (from July 2000) helped seal the fate of Concorde planes. Air France and British Airways having to cut their losses on what many would've viewed way back then as a very revolutionary aircraft (years ahead of its time) that proved too costly. Those aircrafts had to fly over oceans as they couldn't fly over land due to its sonic boom.
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Bright side: why planes fly so low
Me: have you ever heard of a plane running out of fuel at 41,000ft
TIMESTAMPS:
Supersonic passenger airliner Concorde 0:44
Why planes fly at a height of 35,000 ft 1:28
... and why they can't fly higher 2:00
Although, one aircraft could! ✈️ 3:35
What a spaceplane is 🤔 4:56
What about helicopters? 🚁 5:49
How fast planes fly 7:34
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It is possible to fly a plane in to space so look at it this way NASA’s space shuttle is a airplane and lands on a runway
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A military jet can go over the speed of sound so if they do that it breaks the sound barrier and makes a sonic boom but the inside of a jet is to noise that you can't hear it inside a jet
You keep confusing private jets with private piston aircraft. Actually, some private JETS fly HIGHER then commercial jets..up to 45,000 feet as well as some military aircraft. A single engine piston can fly as high as 19,000 feet and single engine turbo prop can fly as high as 31,000.
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Lemme save Your precious time. Planes can’t fly to outer space Bc the air is too thin, so it can’t get the speed to go higher. So it will start falling down to where the air is thick enough for the plane to fly.
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Usually at the airport I'm close to, the planes cruising altitudes are from 33000 to 42000 feet. I guess they want to explore the sky!
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This is something a primary school kid would know.. well at least in any country with a decent education system. Plane wings & helicopter blades (just rotating wings) need lift = to the weight of the aircraft. for that you need air. Higher you go = less air & the faster you need to go to sustain lift or increase wing surface area. Once you reach a certain height wings get no lift & engines get no air. Now you're into rocket territory where wings are useless & all you need is propulsion.
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Nearly all Commercial aircraft fly above 38,000 and below 43,000ft the 787 can reach 43,000ft
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The communications comment is nonsense, communication is unaffected by altitude.
Small private jet aircraft do cruise at 50,000 ft. Pressurization failure at these altitudes is frequently lethal but the cruising speed is faster and fuel consumption is lower (jet engines like cold air).
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