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Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by quickthrower2 »

dylan604 wrote: post #92
jbandela1 wrote: post #44

The 747 IMO is the most beautiful aircraft ever, certainly the most beautiful civilian aircraft. A couple of years ago, I made it a point on an international trip with my kids to book seats for us on the upper deck. It was really awesome, and I am sure they will look back on it as a great memory. If you are able to, before it is too late, I would encourage doing it. The most iconic seats on the most iconic civilian a…

When you have been away from them for a while and you're used to just spending time in terminals with nothing but 737s everywhere, when you come back to a terminal with a 747 at the gate, it is a bit awe inspiring to see just how big these are. Similar to the first time walking up to a 777, A380, etc. They are just huge (or the 737 is tiny).

I got excited just seeing one on flightradar and then looking up :-). They are quite rare compared to 737 and various Airbuses

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by lostlogin »

aendruk wrote: post #139

Screenshot: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmcjrYXR934QZqBuMHioRdcZEmo... On small displays this is otherwise obstructed by a cookie popup that offers only an “accept all” button. What’s even the point of the popup then?

Thank you, I couldn’t see the interesting part due to zoom/number of other planes etc.

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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blantonl wrote: post #89

This was almost certainly drawn out by hand, waypoints (lat/lon) and turns were plotted and then inputed into the flight management computer, and there is a good chance the plane just flew itself as told. Although given it was flown at such a lower altitude below 15k feed near Moses Lake (which is where Boeing does a ton of testing at that airport) it's possible the pilots hand flew this by following a pre-plotted ma…

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Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by jabroni_salad »

malkia wrote: post #54

I see two planes now flying very close to each other... https://imgur.com/a/QcZohkC

Now that you know, see if you can find an airport with bad weather and check out the holding patterns they do. You'll se a half dozen planes in the same circle separated by 1,000ft vertically.

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by americanmotto »

mach1ne wrote: post #117
polishdude20 wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's more that most people are basically trying their best and that includes managers and top brass. Sometimes we get a glimpse when that shines through from the whole group.

I don’t mean to be negative, but most people certainly don’t try their best. Many are only working for the paycheck and don’t attach their sense of success to their professional output.

Agree. I've said for ~10 years now, that it seems the American Dream has transitioned from "Anything is possible as long as you work hard enough." to "Do as little as work possible to get the same paycheck." Something has definitely changed in the culture.

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by stanmancan »

alexose wrote: post #140
juliand wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It took them 2 hours and 40 minutes to complete the easter egg

More cynically: Roughly 2.4 tons of fuel, equating to 16.8 tons of CO2 emissions.

I have no clue what I'm talking about but this piqued my interest. If I ask WolframAlpha:

   Q:how many carbon molecules in 2.4 tons
   A: 1.092×10^29 molecules
X molecules of pure carbon carbon would theoretically require 2X molecules of oxygen to turn into CO2

   Q: how much does (10^29)*2 molecules of oxygen weight in us tons
   A: 5.827 tons
So 2.4 tons of Carbon + 5.827 tons of Oxygen = 8.227 tons of CO2? Maybe? What am I missing to have 2.4 tons of fuel turn into 16.8 tons of CO2 emissions? I'm not doubting it, and I'm sure it's WAY more complicated than above, but just genuinely curious!*

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by knodi123 »

aendruk wrote: post #139

Screenshot: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmcjrYXR934QZqBuMHioRdcZEmo... On small displays this is otherwise obstructed by a cookie popup that offers only an “accept all” button. What’s even the point of the popup then?

> What’s even the point of the popup then?

Complying with idiotic bureaucratic regulations. Nobody wants to be popping that thing up, but if they don't, they can get reamed by the EU.

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by RHSeeger »

colpabar wrote: post #170
waynecochran wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find it highly unlikely that any manager would have anything to do with easter eggs.

Just because you don’t like your manager(s) doesn’t mean we’re all bad :)

My manager sends me videos of particularly challenging video game things he's accomplished. And links to fun games. Managers are people, too; there's plenty of good ones.
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