Originally Posted by
hatzflyer
So if a plane always flies in still air, how come I have still got the bruises on my shoulders from the straps on my shoulders fron a recnt flight across France where my head was hitting the canopy.
Or did I just imagine it?
World of difference between the horizontal component of airflow (i.e. the wind) and the local vertical component (bumps). I have been beaten around the sky on a calm day (very hot so lots of vertical airflow but in a high pressure system so little horizontal) and had a ride smooth as glass with 80 knots on the nose at FL100.