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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

It hooks up to the smoothie blender.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

It's the original onlyfans.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

It's an emergency propeller, when the main engines lose power.

It's also the reason I never sit in the emergency exit row. The reason they give you extra legroom is so passengers can use the pedals that pop up from the floor when the masks are dropped. When they ask if you're willing and able to help on an emergency, this is actually the most common thing you'll have to help out with.

Everytime I've been in a crashing airplane, I just lean back a few degrees and laugh at those poor suckers who traded for a couple inches of extra legroom and now have the responsibility of saving the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

This is an addition that came late in GTA V which allows you to score a pretty humiliating kill on another player.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Brake cooling fan. It looks really far away but it's a trick of the camera. This brakes get REALLY hot without the fan.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

It's actually a siren to warn people on the ground that it's a Boeing.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago

Its a baby plane being born! They come out propeller first

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago

As the aircraft moves through the air, this turbine harvests some of the relative difference in airspeed to convert it to energy that is then used to jam the radio frequencies of all the drone birds in the area that would otherwise disrupt the comms between the pilots and the controllers.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

These deploy in case of total engine failure to provide enough thrust to get the aircraft to the next airport.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, an Auxiliary Propulsion Unit. Seeing one deployed is pretty normal, but when an aircraft has two or more out at the same time, you should be leery of deeper problems with the main engines.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

What, planes get pimples too. Nothing to see here. They are still beautiful

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

( David Attenborough voice) After the passenger jet has migrated to its fertility grounds it is ready to give birth. Unlike human babys, the passenger jet leaves the mother sideways. This way it can gather some draft before its heavy seat area touches the air. At this point, The mother needs to hover near enough to the Earth's surface not to endanger the newborn fall, as it's propellers are far from fully developed and can't sustain proper flight yet.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

This actually propels the plane.

The turbine engines are there to look big and make noise to have the passengers feel safe. Big turbines also allow airlines to charge extra, and generate bigger profits. CO2 emissions are also intentionally raised to justify higher pricing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Well yeah, the government needs that "emissions tax" and the airlines can now compete over "efficiency." But honestly, they don't need any fuel at all because they have wind. Cars need fuel because of friction with the ground, airplanes don't.

That propeller is only needed for takeoff and landing to make sure the plane gets consistent speed. Wind can be a bit gusty, and passengers don't like being tossed around.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It is only also used on lift-off and landing, to accelerate and decelerate the plane. During the flight it's not needed due to the plane relying on Newton's 1st law of motion: "when it go it no stop til stopped"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Ah yes, and when it no go it no go until go.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's a tactical windmill that can be deloyed to cause cancer in the overflown area. And kill ~~birds~~ drones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Next you’ll be telling me it’s a chemtrail generator.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

That's just pieces of the ~~birds~~ drones that got chopped up in the propeller. That's why they're not everywhere, but it does happen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

New green propulsion pushed by the left, they want to make our planes slower and quieter and less smokey. Look, it even resembles their dumb little wind farms.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

not the left, look: it's on the right of the plane... It's a republican propeller!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Tiny little baby emergency engine for use after you toss out the elderly to lighten the load.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Its a propeller. It propells the airplane

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

This is just a retro flying mod for those who want to have the Spitfire/Messerschmitt experience. If not that it's an Anti-drone snipper, cutting off the little wings of a drone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

My other guess, which is true, is that it attracts the birds and eagles that would otherwise be sucked into the engines.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

It provides rotational power to mix the 7 grains of sand into the 200 peanuts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

For cutting up RATs on the runway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

that's a barometer for landing. it measures relative air speed, then subtracts the plane speed. there's another one on the other side for plane speed that measures relative air speed, then subtracts the wind speed calculated from the barometer.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

When someone takes a nightmare shit and extra vacuum is needed to sanitize the John.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago

You know when your balls get sweaty and stick to your thigh? So do planes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

🤫 it's how planes actually move 😉🤭

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

When two planes like each other very, very much...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

An electric generator to power the main turbines.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

No way stupid it makes the plane go faster OBVIOUSLY

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

It's for helping out those ground-based fans for sheep; every so often they stall, so an aeroplane drops by and pops out it's ram air turbine to get it going again. There's another one installed on other planes called a bovine_air_turbine when the same thing happens to those fans for cows.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Exactly why they tell you the seats work as floatation devices

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago

Plane is boat

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

Ever heard of afterburner?

[–] [email protected] 76 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

When becoming aroused, the plane exposes its clitorotoris. This is natural and nothing to be ashamed of.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago

Wrong answers only

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago

It's for pedaling when you run out of fuel.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago

Air brake. The fan rotates very fast but pushes air forward

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Extra propulsion for tough days

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 weeks ago

In the event of a water landing, this'll taxi the plane to your destination.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago

If the pilot flies low enough, this will serve as a ground troop slice-n-dice. Advantages over conventional hardware include:

  1. Unlimited ammo
  2. A mfuckin sword
  3. See #2
  4. Long range (compared to a normal sword)
  5. Phallic

In recent news, Ukrainians are exploring ways to strap C4 to it.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 weeks ago

That’s the built in leaf blower to make sure that the runway is clear for autumn landings. Most airports have their own de-leafing crews, but not all of them.

They were mandated to be installed after a string of landing crashes in the 90s got people making “fall” jokes too often, which upset the FAA.

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