GAM409: The Flight That Disappeared
Added 2023-06-19 16:48:47 +0000 UTCThis week, we reach all the way back to 1961 and realize that "pacing" was discovered at some later date.
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I love a good cockswain
Beth Hasse
2024-07-18 04:41:56 +0000 UTCIt turns out that co-pilots do make less money. Being the captain on a flight has higher requirements in terms of flight hours. The co-pilot has a small amount of specific duties and requires the Captain's permission to do anything outside of those duties.
Uriah Jackson
2023-06-23 10:22:20 +0000 UTCDespite the movie sounding terrible, this episode was fantastic. Marsh episodes are always top notch.
Justin S.
2023-06-23 02:21:51 +0000 UTCYeah, just sounds like a long twilight zone episode, one of the more bland ones
potato potato also another potato
2023-06-22 10:11:08 +0000 UTCI believe so, or at least that was the colloquial understanding
potato potato also another potato
2023-06-22 10:09:57 +0000 UTCI’m sure it’s bad, but this sounds like classic twilight zone stuff, and I adore the twilight zone
potato potato also another potato
2023-06-22 10:08:57 +0000 UTCSo, did Noah just drop a reference to a Calabi-Yau manifold? I think we just reached peak nerd podcast.
Michael Jenkins
2023-06-21 01:58:29 +0000 UTCHopefully the guys find this as fascinating as I do. The third flight crew member is the flight engineer. Old airplanes had a bunch of systems. Pilots have to aviate, navigate, and communicate. In that order. Having all those systems to monitor makes aviation difficult so there was typically a flight engineer to monitor aircraft vitals. As autopilot got more complicated and capable, they began to be able to operate more autonomously. That and things like multi function displays that reduced the number of gauges. These things reduced the flight crew's work load and negated the need for the engineer position. That's why most planes now don't have that third flight crew member.
Timothy Thayer
2023-06-20 21:50:14 +0000 UTCThe origin of the term "cockpit" is really weird. Like, it did first mean "the place where cocks fight" since at least 1580, but it was also a 17th-century nautical term for "where the cockswain piloted a small boat from" so presumably it's a term that started from boats and was transferred to planes, like several terms were, i.e. the use of port and starboard.
Markus D
2023-06-20 18:19:55 +0000 UTCSlightly older nerds could not miss that Helen, the crazy man's blind wife, was played by Meg Wyllie. THE Meg Wyllie? Yep, the Keeper in the classic Star Trek episode The Menagerie.
Elvis Manson
2023-06-20 15:46:21 +0000 UTCCRAZY BILLIONAIRE Remake: Make an Airplane like parody of this movie (in the same way Airplane was a parody of Zero Hour).
Nicholas Monter
2023-06-20 15:30:14 +0000 UTCI can't be arsed looking this up, but I think "ESP" was the shorthand for telepathy in old-timey times. They used it in The Black Hole in a similarly confusing way (even worse because they were telepathically communicating with robots).
Starshark
2023-06-20 04:29:06 +0000 UTCI honestly figured you guys were going to call a mulligan and do a different movie. This one was so…meh. Not really religious, not even toxic in message. Just boring and vague.
Mark H
2023-06-19 23:21:45 +0000 UTCthe third guy in the cockpit is a flight engineer
General Contact Unit Problem Child
2023-06-19 23:07:44 +0000 UTCI could listen to Marsh doing a mid-Atlantic accent all day.
Lugubrious Pixie Nightmare
2023-06-19 17:37:40 +0000 UTC
