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🗓️ 31 May 2024
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0:00.0 | I read something interesting that I want to talk to you about because I would like to imagine if it were us doing this. |
0:15.4 | Oh fun. |
0:16.4 | Yeah, it's a silly thing. |
0:18.0 | First of all, this is how I stumbled upon this, I think. |
0:21.1 | I remember reading this one thing. Recently there was an attempt at a record and the record is |
0:29.1 | the aircraft that has the longest endurance flight. |
0:33.8 | Now what does that mean to you when you hear endurance? |
0:35.8 | It means you don't land. |
0:36.9 | Right, exactly. |
0:38.0 | Oh, wait, no, I have another question. |
0:39.6 | What? |
0:40.1 | You don't land and it's one pilot or you're allowed to have another pilot that |
0:44.4 | sleeps in the back and then you keep swapping. |
0:46.8 | Great question. Well the particular aircraft that set this record is called the Zephyr, Z-E-P-H-Y-R, made by Airbus. |
0:56.9 | Now, back in the Wright Brother days, |
0:59.8 | have you ever seen the Wright Brother plane in our... |
1:02.4 | Kitty Hawk, North Carolina? |
1:03.8 | Yeah, the replica of it they have in Washington, D.C. |
1:06.5 | It's like a cotton fabric stretched over sticks and there's cables and it's awesome. |
1:13.6 | Yeah. |
1:14.1 | Yeah, they made a rudimentary airfoil. |
1:16.5 | Well, think about what we could do with modern technology. |
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