can passanger planes stop in flight?

Answer 1

Actually yes

a small aircraft, can in fact stop forward movement over the ground. If the plane is flying into the wind at 70 mph, (indicated air speed) however the wind he is flying into, is hititting his plane at 70 mph, that would put the ground speed of zero. All aircraft are effected by wind. The same plane flying at a air speed of 70 mph, with a tail wind of 70 mph, has a ground speed of 140 mph.
also
A landing is also known as a controlled crash.....think about it

Answer 2

No, when an airplane (passanger, fighter jet, prop plane, etc) stops forward motion, there is no lift being generated by the wings, thus the plane stalls and falls back to mother earth.

Answer 3

Generally not. The motion of a plane through the air is what holds it up.

Special exception: if a plane is flying against a very strong and steady wind, it can stay in the air without moving relative to the ground.

Answer 4

If you are asking if a plane can seem to not move with respect to ground speed....the answer is yes.

If the wind speed is high enough to keep the aircraft aloft, as in enough air flow over the airfoils...then yes.

See birds gliding on Windy days.

Technically, the plane would be flying, although not moving forward in reference to the ground.

Short answer, Yes!

Answer 5

yes, anything can be stopped in motion. think of newton's first law. an object in motion tends to stay in motion and an object at rest tends to stay at rest unless acted upon by an equal and opposite force. okay say the plane is 20 tons and is traveling 200 miles per hour. It would require 4000 tons of force to make it come to a complete stop. Anything can be stopped with sufficient force, even the earth itself. but that would be impossible to calculate. say it was... 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 tons times 2000 miles per hour. impossible.

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by the way everyone, I think he was talking in a pandora's box point of view kind of where anything can be controlled to infinity.

Answer 6

Simple answer: No.

Long answer: They could reverse the engines, but you REALLY don't want that to happen. The plane doesn't stop, it just goes into a vertical plummet.

They cannot hover like a helicopter or harrier would.

Answer 7

Yes, if you aim the nose of the plane up far enough, it will very briefly come to a dead stop before nosing sharply down again.

Answer 8

Forward momentum can be stopped, in effect stopping the airplane in flight IF it is flying into a headwind equal to it's airspeed.

Answer 9

No, they cannot stop their own motion while in the air. Under scary circumstances, they can stall. This is basically a momentary pause in movement, that is usually followed by a crash.

Answer 10

It probable ability you will not get on a airplane in San A, and get off in stylish, you will make one end inbetween. i think of if it suggested connecting you may opt to differences planes, a "end" often has an identical airplane, yet they might make you get off and then reboard.