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If only they made this feature for long family road trips (slrpnk.net)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 24 points 7 months ago* (7 children)

I've seen the exact same design years ago sold as a way to quickly prepare the plane for takeoff. Passengers would board the detached module so the whole plane doesn't have to sit there waiting. I imagine you would have more passenger modules than engine modules. The more expensive engine modules would fly non-stop: land, drop the passenger module, pick up another module and take off before even the first plane deboarded. No idea if this could actually work. It's just strange to see the exact same design done for a dumber reason.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I'm a little surprised we don't do it that way. It would make it a lot easier logistically, and it could be much more accessible. Time waiting on the tarmac for humans to shuffle single file is utility wasted.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I'm sure technically we could build a plane like that but I don't think we're at a developmental level that would allow us to make them cheap and secure enough and to handle the logistics involved. Boeing is struggling to make normal planes safe and the entire flight control system in US is close to a breaking point. Imagine adding more possible failure points to the planes and more complex logistics at the airports...

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago*

    I mean yes, but those problems are there because we refuse to work together and rather have "competition create progress". If all the aviation firms would agree to share knowledge and adopt common standards and thus work together more than compete, we could have nicer things everywhere.

    But people are stupid and selfish so we can't have that, fight is all we can.

    And I'm not saying aviation firms specifically are about that, rather all humans everywhere.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    That time is used by the ground crew to prepare the plane for the flight and go over safety systems. Planes can't just land and takeoff again immediately. Things can go wrong, and you can't pull over in the air. Sometimes those delays are mechanical, and some times those delays are shift changes, bad crew scheduling/staffing levels. Airports are pretty fucking efficient over all. From the planes flying people around perspective, not the human shuffling element. We are just cattle to them after all.

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