LAXspotter From India, joined Jan 2007, 3650 posts, RR: 5 Posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2698 times:
I m quite sure most of us on Anet are a little unusual as compared to "Average People". I know I am a little unusual but recently one of my aviation buddies told me that i was crazy because I said the MD-80 (the Mad Dog) had a personality just like a human. I told him the plane looked "angry" from certain angles and I also told him that one of the planes taking off looked like it was looking forward to its task of crossing the Pacific. Am i crazy? or am i just the average anetter which an obsession for aviation?
Thanks
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" Samuel Johnson
Longhornmaniac From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 3102 posts, RR: 47 Reply 3, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 2567 times:
It's funny you mention this, because when I was younger, I was obsessed with the black nose on the widget scheme.
I thought the MD-88 had a sort of proud complexion, as did the 767. I thought just about every 727 looked angry, and the 747 looked like it was scoffing. I had no life.
FutureUApilot From United States of America, joined May 2004, 1365 posts, RR: 4 Reply 4, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 2532 times:
From a flying stand point I can see how planes have Personalities. Where I am training we have two C-172's, both of which have distinct sets of things they like to do and not do.
ZKSUJ From New Zealand, joined May 2004, 6971 posts, RR: 10 Reply 6, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 2486 times:
744 in general. A very reliable aircraft who has pretty much always been there. It stands through the times with elegance and grace regardless of competition.
CVGpilot From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 588 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 2482 times:
Quoting FutureUApilot (Reply 4): From a flying stand point I can see how planes have Personalities. Where I am training we have two C-172's, both of which have distinct sets of things they like to do and not do.
Thats funny, when I look at the C-172n from 76 I see stubborn ass, and trust me there is no reflection in the paint or anything.
Cessna057 From United States of America, joined Sep 2006, 439 posts, RR: 2 Reply 8, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 2480 times:
Quoting CVGpilot (Reply 7): Thats funny, when I look at the C-172n from 76 I see stubborn ass, and trust me there is no reflection in the paint or anything.
Agreed. Hate those little things...
Hold it . . . Hold it . . . HOLD THE FREAKIN NOSE UP!!
N6801 From Sweden, joined Aug 2001, 192 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (6 years 4 months 1 week 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 2380 times:
When I used to stand by the approach lights at YYZ as a kid, I used to think the DC-8's and 707's were quite ominous looking in the distance on approach. That slowly growing, menacing black cloud of smoke with a tiny sliver of metal with lights in the middle of it was sort of scary to a kid standing next to the runway. But in a cool way, of course.
Especially when they would start slowly dipping their wings downward one at a time, flying almost sideways at times to line up for the runway. They looked like they were moving in the kill!
The subtle howl of the DC-8-63 engines on roll-out kind of gave me goose flesh as well, come to think of it.
Needless to say, the DC-8-63 ended up becoming my all-time favourite jet.
Burkhard From Germany, joined Nov 2006, 4268 posts, RR: 2 Reply 12, posted (6 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 2324 times:
Every complex system ( as example every molecule with 3 or more atoms ) has normal states and the potential to switch into states which the chaos thory tries to explain, but at least do not seem to follow the simple rules we expect it to follow.
When we have any form of interaction between two complex system, the same applies. Let us take a human and an aircraft. This interaction can follow simple rules of mechanics - or have non linear effects on either side. The one on our side we get aware off more easily.
You aren't crazy. People who tell you everything in life is linear mechanics havn't arrived in the 20th century yet, so a long way to go.
The process of seeing ( hearing, smelling the same ) is a very complex progress. From the light producing little electricity in the eye cells to "this is a 747", several processing stages take place. What is important is that these processes are all complex biochemical ones, and each depends on what has been processed before ( which receptors are blocked, which are active, ...) -which explains why several people who look at the same situation see different things. So if you see a personnality in a MD80, than there is one. Because you have experienced it beforehand. If your friend wasn't given this experience, you have to accept he does not see the same. This is normal, this is how life works.
CVGpilot From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 588 posts, RR: 1 Reply 13, posted (6 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 2319 times:
Quoting Burkhard (Reply 12): Every complex system ( as example every molecule with 3 or more atoms ) has normal states and the potential to switch into states which the chaos thory tries to explain, but at least do not seem to follow the simple rules we expect it to follow.
When we have any form of interaction between two complex system, the same applies. Let us take a human and an aircraft. This interaction can follow simple rules of mechanics - or have non linear effects on either side. The one on our side we get aware off more easily.
You aren't crazy. People who tell you everything in life is linear mechanics havn't arrived in the 20th century yet, so a long way to go.
The process of seeing ( hearing, smelling the same ) is a very complex progress. From the light producing little electricity in the eye cells to "this is a 747", several processing stages take place. What is important is that these processes are all complex biochemical ones, and each depends on what has been processed before ( which receptors are blocked, which are active, ...) -which explains why several people who look at the same situation see different things. So if you see a personnality in a MD80, than there is one. Because you have experienced it beforehand. If your friend wasn't given this experience, you have to accept he does not see the same. This is normal, this is how life works.
EMA747 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2006, 1163 posts, RR: 2 Reply 14, posted (6 years 4 months 1 week 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 2289 times:
When a plane goes down, I'm thinking Concorde here, then we as aviation lovers probably get sad over both the people killed and the plane itself getting "killed". Also when a plane is broken up I kind of feel it is not just a machine being destroyed, if you know what I mean? Surely if you think and feel like this it means that subconciously you see the plane as more than just metal and stuff.
Failing doesn’t make you a failure. Giving up and refusing to try again does!
Gift4tbone From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 609 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (6 years 4 months 1 week 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 2276 times:
I agree...I was saddened the day I worked a DL 732 for the last time, the next morning it worked a flight to ATL before heading to the desert. I miss that thing.
N311DL was my favorite, as it was the first 732 I worked.
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