Plane Spotting At Fll

First!

Air craft and air ports are pretty incredible....

I tend to get "overwhelmed" with the cleverness of men and the majesty of the universe.....

And essentially - a jet engine is a better version of an oil lamp - terracotta clay and assorted fats and oils and a wick....

And look at how far we have come and how the oil burners are, at turning fuel into power and how the aircraft shoot up into the sky at 30*Degrees... ALL computer controlled, all the trajectory mapped out... up to their peak altitude and then idling in, on a preset, almost glide angle....

The air pressure, density, direction, temperature, humidity etc. and working out almost exactly how much fuel they will use on a given trip, on a given time period.

There is a limit to everything, and I am not sure just how much more fuel efficient jet engines can get....

But the modern stuff - if each passenger has an average weight, and how many Kg of fuel they use, and the speed the air craft travel at... A bit stale and a bit vague - from a long time ago.... But aircraft use like 1/3 the amount of fuel per passenger, as a car does, on a straight line trip and they do it at like 700 Kmh..