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Carefully maneuvering the balloon down a mineshaft in an effort to break the OTHER altitude record
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3161/
Title text:
Carefully maneuvering the balloon down a mineshaft in an effort to break the OTHER altitude record
Transcript:
Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com
Source: https://xkcd.com/3161/
This is why I’m a balloon pilot and not a fixed wing pilot. 30,000 is 12,001ft higher than I’ll ever see, and 30kias will probably collapse my envelope and splatter me in a corn field. 😵💫
Can confirm: the accuracy of forecasts in general (and vertical wind profile data in particular) plummeted for this year’s flying season. The GOP is needlessly endangering aviation safety on multiple fronts.
30 knots indicated would take a plane out of the sky too, that’s well below most airplane’s stall speeds. We can probably fix that before doing the Monsanto Slam though.