
Scott Manley
@DJSnM • 680,323 subscribers
Internet Rocket Scientist, Gamer, Astronomer, Dad, Scotsman, Pilot. Makes videos about space and science https://t.co/mLfUsogKq5
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Here's the reconstruction of the view from AA472 based upon the last few minutes of data. It had been switched from RWY1 to RWY33 to help with traffic flow, the Helicopter was instructed to avoid the airliner and reported traffic in sight. It's very likely they were looking at the wrong plane. Crew of jet would not be able to see helicopter and the proximity warning systems were less reliable with the older transponder design on the helicopter.
Scott Manley2,225,578 次观看 • 1 年前

40 Years ago Barbara Morgan watched as Challenger lifted off with a crew she'd got to know well. She was the backup for the teacher in space program. We all know what happened to the shuttle, and it's understandable that many people would see this and never want to fly on it. Barbara returned to teaching but would be offered another opportunity to become an astronaut in 1998, she was still working as an elementary school teacher at that time. She trained again and was expected to fly on STS-118, assigned to Columbia, while preparing for this flight she would be on a jet that was supposed to meet Columbia after it returned from space. Again she had a front row seat to a shuttle disaster. She was undeterred and would ultimately fly to the ISS on Endeavour in 2007, leading lessons from space. We all hear about fearless test pilots, but less about fearless elementary school teachers.
Scott Manley290,632 次观看 • 4 个月前

Cool engineering thing about IMAX - the film is so large that a traditional film transport system would put too much stress on the sprocket holes on the edge of the film. The film needs to get pulled forward a frame and then held still, the acceleration forces increase as the square of the frame size, so the full 15 hole/frame IMAX film is 9 times the acceleration of 5 hole/frame 70mm. This extra stress increases the chance that film gets damaged to the point that the developers of the format came up with a 'Rolling loop' transport mechanism that bends the film into a loop of exactly the right length, this moves down the film like a wave, and each wave advances the film by one frame. This changes the stresses and lets the large format film work without failing. I remember seeing this in the 90's and only just remembered when someone showed me a video from Ryan Coogler talking about film formats.
Scott Manley274,676 次观看 • 4 个月前

Oh dear.... Neil deGrasse Tyson teaching that wings work through the fallacy of equal transit theory. As if the atoms in one piece of air somehow know what the atoms in in the air on the other side of a wing are doing. We have enough problems with new pilots getting this strange unphysical idea without someone who'd supposed to have a degree in this promoting this as a fact.
Scott Manley1,082,770 次观看 • 2 年前