YouTube brainbox GGP Grey investigates efficient and not-so-efficient ways to board commercial airline flights.
Random boarding is better, it seems, but as physicist Jason Steffen showed in 2008, there is a precise order which minimises the delay caused by other passengers stowing their luggage in overhead compartments.
LA based photographer Mike Kelley’s composites of air traffic taken at various airports around the world.
More here.
Related: Landing Rush
A guide to idiot avoidance, chair wrangling, firearm use and other vagaries of air travel with Mario, Fafa and Johnny T.
This morning over Dublin
Eamon Leonard asks:
Is this black line the plane’s shadow? Sun was directly behind it, visible for only a few secs…
A very impressive timelapse of Singapore’s Changi airport by photographer Milton Tan who was given unrestricted access, often filming so close to the landing planes that you can see his tripod shuddering in the turbulence. Tan talks about the experience on his blog.
Tonight.
Niall Smith writes:
Tenerife-bound plane has completed at least nine circles over Meath. Problem on board or Dubs spying (pre next Sun)*?
#Herald splash today could be straight from a Hollywood movie. ‘Hero Passenger Lands Plane At Dublin Airport’
— Kevin Doyle (@KevDoyle_Herald) November 20, 2012
Any excuse to play this.
‘Hero’ passenger helped land plane at Dublin Airport (BreakingNews.ie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocbxS5aWUSo
If you happen to be flying from Atlanta to New York on Delta.
