• @Infynis@midwest.social
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    288 months ago

    I’ve seen this episode of Star Trek. You have to fly back through the storm along the opposite vector you entered from

    • Lorindól
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      48 months ago

      And you also need to reverse the polarity of the shield extangulator before doing so!

      • Too busy writing an entire series of terrible YA space dogfighting.

        Firing lines are NOT how you dogfight, Sanderson. That should be how all the child soldiers get blown up by aliens and the protagonist learns they aren’t special.

        I would like his take on a black powder fantasy series though. Jumping from medieval settings to a Western was a bit jarring.

        • @HardlightCereal@lemmy.world
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          18 months ago

          At no point in Skyward do they dogfight in a firing line. Cobb puts the students in a line to teach them discipline, coordination, and maneuvering. He criticised the teaching style of other instructors who let the students dogfight right away. Cobb believed in hammering in the fundamentals until they were instinct, and only then allowing them to actually fight. This is sensible military doctrine.

          Skyward is a great book.

  • @Jud_R@lemmy.world
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    78 months ago

    Just tell the judge you don’t understand how they got smaller and Finnair… I’ll see myself out.

  • Flax
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    58 months ago

    I assume since it’s the FAA they flew out of Finland to America. America is further south and anyone who has looked at a map knows that things shrink when they are closer to the equator.

      • Deme
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        8 months ago

        Of the 976 ever produced, only 22 DC-9’s remain in operation (as of last February according to Wikipedia). Not exactly a common plane to come across.

        • @Taalen@lemmy.world
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          18 months ago

          You’re reading it a bit more literally than it was intended. “Flying sardine can to the Canaries” being the gist I was going for.