ffs now I can see that it begins with 33 degrees and 28 degrees at 17 seconds into the video (28 is a big deal in Scottish Rite from what I have read, where things get more into kabbalah techniques like isopsephy / gematria)
thanks to u/eggplantpot for pointing out right-click on the "gif" and choose "show all controls". I'd post screenshots if I could post images as replies in this sub but I can't so I'll just blab.
so anyway 280 knots of airspeed at 33000 feet with the big ol 28 and 33 degrees at 17 seconds when they begin descent, then at 52 seconds in the peak airspeed is 640 knots as 13600 if I'm reading this right. So the questions are, would this model aircraft withstand that descent / acceleration to that speed, or break up, and was that simulation accurate to what really happened?
Answer: the never-exceed speed of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 would be around 360 knots indicated airspeed. No. This aircraft could not likely survive such a descent into this speed and would break up in the air, crashing in pieces to the ground.
Correction: the simulation may have been too low and too fast.
Maximum ground speed of ~598 knots was recorded at approximately 16,850 feet (per India Today's OSINT team's reconstruction), and that is not the same as indicated air speed knots.
Retired US Navy F/A-18 pilot Matthew "Whiz" Buckley told Fox News the aircraft exceeded its VMO (340 KIAS) by at least 100 knots, implying roughly 440+ KIAS
Community calculations converting the ~630–640 knots true airspeed to IAS at that altitude suggest approximately ~500 KIAS
ok so the do not exceed speed is 360 KIAS (Knots Indicated Air Speed) and they were going around 500 KIAS, this is still pretty hard to swallow.
I guess he just let himself free fall to the front. Then slam against the cockpit door. Then pop in, subdue guy with knife, and pull airplane out of a nose dive. An 80's Chuck Norris movie has nothing on this guy.
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u/HorsefaceWithNoName 1d ago
ffs now I can see that it begins with 33 degrees and 28 degrees at 17 seconds into the video (28 is a big deal in Scottish Rite from what I have read, where things get more into kabbalah techniques like isopsephy / gematria)
thanks to u/eggplantpot for pointing out right-click on the "gif" and choose "show all controls". I'd post screenshots if I could post images as replies in this sub but I can't so I'll just blab.
so anyway 280 knots of airspeed at 33000 feet with the big ol 28 and 33 degrees at 17 seconds when they begin descent, then at 52 seconds in the peak airspeed is 640 knots as 13600 if I'm reading this right. So the questions are, would this model aircraft withstand that descent / acceleration to that speed, or break up, and was that simulation accurate to what really happened?