I took a weekend trip this past weekend flying Southwest on a Boeing 737. It peeked my curiosity to know what amount of force was being placed on me to get the aircraft in flight. If you know I would like to know how many gee's we were being placed under during the initial take off.
2006-08-28 03:15:19 · 4 answers · asked by Dustin S 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
The average acceleration during take off of PASSENGER's jets is a maximum of 1.7 g's. No more!
A fast light aircraft can reach up to 2 g's.
And a jet launched from an aircraft carrier reaches no more than 4 g's. (I was surprised myself, thinking it was much more, but you must understand that if the pilot is receiving 5 or 6 g's on take off, he might actually pass out! Rather annoying on take off).
2006-08-28 03:57:22 · answer #1 · answered by just "JR" 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
as a southwest employee i think i have heard that take off is 1 or 2 gees...
2006-08-28 03:18:35 · answer #2 · answered by Jay G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The average rate of acceleration is zero.
Because the jet (almost) always returns to the same airport.
2006-08-28 03:36:05 · answer #3 · answered by Duke 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think your curiosity was actually "piqued".............look it up.
2006-08-28 04:35:09 · answer #4 · answered by FourHead 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋