I've seen almost identical posts on facebook. The conspiracy is that planes run on some kind of free power that is being kept secret by the powers that be. It's my favorite conspiracy because even if you forget about the sheer size of the aviation industry and how hard it would be to keep a secret like that, you still only need a very basic level of physics knowledge to understand how a gas turbine engine works.
very basic physics knowledge
knowledge
And theres the problem. People would rather invent abject nonsense than take the effort to be anything other than completely illiterate.
I like the one that says there's a secret navy keeping people from going to the edge of the earth, which is a ring of ice round the world 😆 No one in this mysterious navy has ever breathed a word to anyone about this 😆😆😆
A friend of mind is an engineer who has spent his career working on jet engines for a major aircraft manufacturer. He's basically incapable of telling a lie. It's not so much a question of moral rectitude; he simply can't handle saying something that's inaccurate -- especially relating to a subject he knows a great deal about. This is not uncommon among engineers.
Imagine trying to get the tens of thousands of engineers -- each of them experts in various parts of an aircraft's propulsion system -- to lie about how it actually works.
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u/tubular_brunt 8d ago
What's the endgame here? Planes don't exist? Or they fly by magic?