I saw a movie today with Orson Welles (The Lost Airplane? or some title like that) from 1961. Great movie btw!

My question is they said that they were 10 miles up in the air, and 22,000 feet. Could that be accurate? Cause if it was, then the distance would be, from the ground to air, just about the ground distance that is from my house to say, my old house..which is not that far tbh.

As always, thanks and God bless!

10 statute miles up in the air is more like 52800 feet.

Hollywood isn't very good with technical accuracy. Story always wins.

Starlionblue wrote:

10 statute miles up in the air is more like 52800 feet.

Darn! I thought it would actually be much, much lower!! Like, maybe 5 or 10 thousand feet?

Thanks man!

22,000feet would read 3.6DME if you flew directly over a DME transmitter located at sea level.

AntonioMartin wrote:

I saw a movie today with Orson Welles (The Lost Airplane? or some title like that) from 1961. Great movie btw!

My question is they said that they were 10 miles up in the air, and 22,000 feet. Could that be accurate? Cause if it was, then the distance would be, from the ground to air, just about the ground distance that is from my house to say, my old house..which is not that far tbh.

As always, thanks and God bless!

You sure about Orson Welles and/or 1961? Could not find any such title under his name at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000080/ And, as others have posted, 10 statute miles (52,800') or 10 nautical miles (~60,800') in those years was only attainable by a very few military jet aircraft.

Yikes! wrote:

AntonioMartin wrote:

I saw a movie today with Orson Welles (The Lost Airplane? or some title like that) from 1961. Great movie btw!

My question is they said that they were 10 miles up in the air, and 22,000 feet. Could that be accurate? Cause if it was, then the distance would be, from the ground to air, just about the ground distance that is from my house to say, my old house..which is not that far tbh.

As always, thanks and God bless!

You sure about Orson Welles and/or 1961? Could not find any such title under his name at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000080/ And, as others have posted, 10 statute miles (52,800') or 10 nautical miles (~60,800') in those years was only attainable by a very few military jet aircraft.

Im almost certain about Welles, but could be wrong.....

As far as the distance, heck, few airplanes reach that distance today!

Thanks!

AntonioMartin wrote:

Yikes! wrote:

AntonioMartin wrote:

I saw a movie today with Orson Welles (The Lost Airplane? or some title like that) from 1961. Great movie btw!

My question is they said that they were 10 miles up in the air, and 22,000 feet. Could that be accurate? Cause if it was, then the distance would be, from the ground to air, just about the ground distance that is from my house to say, my old house..which is not that far tbh.

As always, thanks and God bless!

You sure about Orson Welles and/or 1961? Could not find any such title under his name at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000080/ And, as others have posted, 10 statute miles (52,800') or 10 nautical miles (~60,800') in those years was only attainable by a very few military jet aircraft.

Im almost certain about Welles, but could be wrong.....

As far as the distance, heck, few airplanes reach that distance today!

Thanks!

Heck a glider made it up to 76,000ft in 2018, setting the current altitude record for a glider aircraft, made by Airbus of course.

AntonioMartin wrote:

Starlionblue wrote:

10 statute miles up in the air is more like 52800 feet.

Darn! I thought it would actually be much, much lower!! Like, maybe 5 or 10 thousand feet?

Thanks man!

Is this sarcasm or did you really think a statute mile was a 1,000’?

GalaxyFlyer wrote:

AntonioMartin wrote:

Starlionblue wrote:

10 statute miles up in the air is more like 52800 feet.

Darn! I thought it would actually be much, much lower!! Like, maybe 5 or 10 thousand feet?

Thanks man!

Is this sarcasm or did you really think a statute mile was a 1,000’?

Since 1 kilometer is 1000 meters, it should be a plausible assumption

Except we’re talking Imperial measures, different animal.

GalaxyFlyer wrote:

AntonioMartin wrote:

Starlionblue wrote:

10 statute miles up in the air is more like 52800 feet.

Darn! I thought it would actually be much, much lower!! Like, maybe 5 or 10 thousand feet?

Thanks man!

Is this sarcasm or did you really think a statute mile was a 1,000’?

No...math was never my forte.....now with the internet I know pretty much about distances and such but as a young person? Didnt care...didnt pay attention and didnt learn. My forte was always languages and history TBH.

Woodreau wrote:

AntonioMartin wrote:

Yikes! wrote:

You sure about Orson Welles and/or 1961? Could not find any such title under his name at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000080/ And, as others have posted, 10 statute miles (52,800') or 10 nautical miles (~60,800') in those years was only attainable by a very few military jet aircraft.

Im almost certain about Welles, but could be wrong.....

As far as the distance, heck, few airplanes reach that distance today!

Thanks!

Heck a glider made it up to 76,000ft in 2018, setting the current altitude record for a glider aircraft, made by Airbus of course.

Darn!!!!!