Amazing number of flights

[amirm]

It is 11:00pm west coast US time and there are this many planes travelling around US:

Incredible.

You can see real-time traffic here: https://flightaware.com/live/

 

[RayDunzl]

Why they aren't all flying supersonically:

 

[NorthSky]

Too noisy and scary?

 

[amirm]

Just looked again (2:10 pm pacific times) and it is tons more insane now:

Seems like everyone is going to warmer places like Florida! Watch our Ray, Sal!!!

 

[RayDunzl]

Atlanta only, in and out, about 6pm December 23

 

[NorthSky]

All the 747s are retiring, the price of oil is insane, electric planes are the future.

And that supersonic boom is becoming history.
By the way, do you know how much fuel consumption a Concorde requires? It has to be a lot.

• https://www.wired.com/2017/03/supersonic-planes-mounting-comeback-without-earth-shaking-boom/

Traffic above is busy this Holiday Season.

 

[Wombat]

All the 747s are retiring, the price of oil is insane, electric planes are the future.

And that supersonic boom is becoming history.
By the way, do you know how much fuel consumption a Concorde requires? It has to be a lot.

• https://www.wired.com/2017/03/supersonic-planes-mounting-comeback-without-earth-shaking-boom/

Traffic above is busy this Holiday Season.

17 passenger-miles per imperial gallon(14.2 passenger-miles per US gallon).

 

[jhaider]

Atlanta only, in and out, about 6pm December 23

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Delta claims are that the power outage at Hartsfield-Jackson last week cost them 50 million USD. Plus the costs for accommodating stranded passengers, etc.

 

[March Audio]

I have a bit of an attachment to Concorde as I used to work for Rolls Royce Aero Engines in test measurement. We performed fuel ingestion testing after the accident in 2000. As the transient/dynamics recording van was rather close to the engine we were encased in concrete blocks just in case of catastrophic failure

 

[NorthSky]

I wouldn't install my turntable near one of those. She'd be ingested fast enough. Did you mean fuel injection?

That's a big ... condom.

 

[March Audio]

I wouldn't install my turntable near one of those. She'd be ingested fast enough. Did you mean fuel injection?

That's a big ... condom.

No, fuel ingestion. IE - what happens if fuel is leaking out out the wing and into the front of the engine. We had to investigate one of the potential accident scenarios. Most airliners have the engines slung in front of the wing so its not a scenario that can happen to them.