so the thing is they can't carry TOO much extra fuel or they'll be over maximum landing weight
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Replying to @saintwalker98 @BootlegGirl
why isn't the landing gear or whatever other parts affect the maximum landing weight tougher? (or is this the same kind of stupid question as "why don't they make the whole plane out of the black box")
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Replying to @Random832 @BootlegGirl
basically the landing gear DOES determine the maximum take off & landing weight, it's just that take off weight can be heavier cause of the increased lift, so it's possible for a plane to be able to go up but not down
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(this is just based on how it was explained to me, it's entirely possible I misunderstood, I am not an expert)
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Well yeah What hurts your legs more, jumping into the air or landing
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ok so then why not make the landing gear tough enough that it can land with the maximum amount of fuel and cargo [well, i suppose if you did that it would technically mean you could take off with *even more* cargo, but at a certain point you run into the maximum lift right?]
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Replying to @Random832 @arthur_affect and
Landing gear like that would be much heavier, adding to the plane's total weight, reducing fuel efficiency, requiring MORE fuel, which adds MORE weight, which results in more of the plane's payload needing to be fuel instead of passengers and cargo, while providing little benefit
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Replying to @FartCaptor @Random832 and
Couldn't have said it better myself, yeah basically aviation IE making a huge hunk of metal fly by strapping some engines to it, is insanely precision complicated to actually make work
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Replying to @saintwalker98 @FartCaptor and
This is also tied to the square cube law, people don't really think about how much the impact force of falling increases as objects get bigger
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Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and
It's completely impossible for a bug to be damaged by falling in any way (it hits terminal velocity in the atmosphere very quickly) It's pretty hard for a cat to break something by falling, for a human it's pretty easy, for a horse it's almost inevitable
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When you build something the size of a 747, the process of gently setting it on the ground so nothing breaks is an incredibly complex engineering problem
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Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and
Hence the ridiculousness of giant mecha anime Even if you could build something like that that could stand up, having it walk without the impact smashing up its leg with every step would be several times more difficult
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Replying to @arthur_affect @saintwalker98 and
Having it *fall over* without crunching into ruined scrap metal would be impossible (can a regular building fall over and stay intact?) As would the problem of standing up again from a prone position
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