Totally normal: planes floating in mid-air
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For small planes that makes perfect sense. Large jets though? And barely off the ground?
Yes and compounded by the size. The bigger the size the less it appears to be moving, especially near to the ground.
Talking of headwinds/tailwinds over aircraft, I was flying back to camp in Germany with a storm chasing us, my normal cruise would be around 125kts, my doppler showed us having 220kts groundspeed! Fastest I'd ever been in a helicopter! We beat the storm.
The principles don't change for size... yeah, for jumbo jets as well as piper cubs.
The wings on a B-52 bomber rise 22 feet from standing still to take-off, measured at the wing tip. That is 'lift' causing that, the larger and heavier plane requires more wing area to create the lift but the principle is the same. Science demands it be that way, the wing is designed to create 'X' amount of lift and does so, the only way a plane can fly is to meet the science parameters. Big, small, light or heavy, low altitude or higher, doesn't matter, Flight is Flight. The science has to work the same for us all IF it is science.
Air pressure is always higher at lower altitudes, so you get more lift technically.
https://files.catbox.moe/rz37vb.jpg
Correct.
2:42 and 3:07. If they are moving forward, why aren't they going towards the objects that the camera is moving towards. Instead they move away...
Think larger, ask yourself how many variables and perspectives are involved in the image, what known parameters are constant and what are not?
But have it your way, or ponder the science your self.
https://files.catbox.moe/gwtg41.png
Here is why I am being so damn stubborn.
https://youtu.be/3qCfTBgalFE?t=600
And here is something else to consider
https://youtu.be/w3T5nNdHMmU?t=41
Because the aircraft isn't going as fast as your brain thinks it should be. With full flaps, and a slow approach speed it does look like it's almost static until it's very close to the ground.
The clip at 2:01 supports this. I can see it barely moving. The other two time stamps I keep watching closely and it just doesn't appear to be so, especially the clip starting at 3:02.
I'm fine with being proven wrong, but some of them appear very stationary.
Here is the original clip that got me on this kick and why my perspective might be altered from everyone else's...
https://youtu.be/3qCfTBgalFE?t=600
3:31 why does it stay above the same group of trees?