What do you call someone attracted to planes?

Mechanophilia (or mechaphilia) is a paraphilia involving a sexual attraction to machines such as bicycles, motor vehicles, helicopters, ships, and aeroplanes.

Why does a plane look still?

Basically it’s the headwind. When the headwind is huge enough to create a lift but also greater or equal to the speed of the aircraft, it will look like it is standing still. Because it couldn’t just move forward.

Why do planes look like hover?

Obviously, aeroplanes can’t just hover where they are in the sky. That defies the laws of science. It’s likely that the plane is moving, but is caught in a very strong headwind that means it appears from the ground to be hovering above in suspension.

Do airplanes stand still in the air?

Techincally, there is only one way for the aircraft to remain hanging motionless in the air: if weight and lift cancel each other out perfectly, and at the same time thrust and drag cancel each other out too. But this is incredibly rare. To stay in the air and sustain its flight, an aircraft needs to be moving forward.

What does a elevator do on a plane?

The elevator is used to control the position of the nose of the aircraft and the angle of attack of the wing. Changing the inclination of the wing to the local flight path changes the amount of lift which the wing generates. This, in turn, causes the aircraft to climb or dive.

How do people behave on a jet plane?

People pretty much know how to behave as passengers on a jetliner as opposed to small planes. Sure, some people, the outliers, do ridiculous things like argue with and threaten the flight attendants (federal offense!), or try to open the cockpit door or escape doors during flight.

Why are the wings of a plane designed to be thin?

Any area that you add to the “tube” is wasted energy. Simultaneously the wing shape that generates maximum lift with lowest drag is a long thin shape. This is because wings cause lift primarily by creating negative air pressure by making air flow faster over the top than the bottom.

What is the shape of a commercial plane?

Most have a long roughly cylindrical fuselage; some have other shapes (consider the 747 whose fuselage cross-section changes dramatically halfway down the plane).

What happens if you jerk an airplane too hard?

Jerking the stick or yoke that controls some flight control surfaces could result in a pretty wild ride. If those surfaces were jerked hard enough, it just might overstress the airplane. The result would not be good.