What would happen if you flew straight out into space?

Question

would the plane be ok

Answer 1

Well, somehow you forgot to tell us where you lived on this Earth, so giving you a specific answer is going to be a bit tough. Also, I need the Exact Time of Day and your exact location of lift off (City, State, Country). You see the Earth is actually spinning around and around, so I don't know which way you will fly outta here when you do. I assume you will fly "straight up" when you fly straight out into space...because that is the shortest route.

At about 12,000 feet you will begin having trouble breathing without some kind of pressurized oxygen mask system.

At around 15,000 feet you will begin noticing that it is pretty darn cold up there, and it will continue getting colder and colder the higher up you go.

Did you say Plane? As in Airplane? Oh, well that is a real problem then...Almost all airplanes use piston or jet engines for propulsion, and those engines breathe air for combustion. So, your airplane cannot go much higher than about 55,000 feet even with all kinds of special equipment. If you try to go any higher, the engine will stall out and quit. Everyone on the airplane must have had pressurized oxygen breathing equipment on all this time, or they are dead now from lack of air.

When an airplane flies through the air, it is enabled to do that by the air foil shape built into its wings. As you fly higher and higher up in the sky the air gets thinner and thinner. So the lift generated by the curvature in the wings becomes less and less until you reach a point where the engines quit, or the lift created is zero... Either way, the plane falls back to Earth and never goes into Outer Space. You should hope that you will be able to restart the engine or engines once you fall back down into thicker atmosphere that is rich in Oxygen.

If you don't have a heated cabin in your airplane, or a heated flying suit to keep you warm, you will freeze (to death) at high altitudes. So you must plan on that situation also.

Answer 2

In order to understand why airplanes cannot fly directly into space, we need to know how it works. The most important part of an airplane that helps it fly is the wing. The wing is so shaped and tilted that the air moving on the top of wing travels faster than the air moving under the wings. So the faster-moving air moving over the wing exerts less pressure on it than the slower air moving underneath the wing. Resulting in an upward push, the air under the wings holds the airplane.



Even large airplanes can fly at an altitude of 40,000 feet (7.5 miles). Above which, the air is too thin to hold the plane. The air gets thinner and thinner as we go up. At one point, air becomes so thin that there is hardly any air at all (vacuum).



Thus we see that air is important which aides the movement of airplanes. The outer space does not possess any air and rockets prove to be useful in exploring them. Rockets do not need outside air to lift them up as planes do instead they follow Newton’s third law (Every action has an equal and opposite reaction). They shoot out gases at such a high speed that the reaction causes the rocket to move up and away from earth.

Answer 3

The escape velocity of earth is around 22,000 mph. The airplane would never make it. It would stall at a certain altittude because of the thinning atmosphere and the inability to create lift. Rockets have their own oxidizer and do not require the earth's oxygen supply to burn it's fuel. There are just too many factors an airplane would have to contend with to be able to make it in to space. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

do you guys know absolutely nothing? did you know that astronauts in training fly up and go so high that they are actually able to experience up to 10 seconds of weightlessness. but to answer the question, an airplane could make it up. they've designed planes TO make it up that high. unfortunately though if you were to completely leave earths atmosphere you'd eventually run out of oxygen, the plane was not designed for such cold as in space so you would most likely be extremely cold if weren't frozen, and you'd just keep drifting until the plane hit something to stop it. although if you found some sort of way to re-enter the earths atmosphere the plane would most likely be torn apart on the descent considering that planes were not made for such descents as those that spacecrafts make. all in all...its not really a good idea to attempt this

Answer 5

An airplane requires oxygen for fuel combustion and above about 12 miles there is not enough in the atmosphere. If it can reach escape velocity (about 25,000mph) before the air runs out it will enter orbit. Otherwise it will fall back to Earth.

Answer 6

Well Paul C, might want to read up more on NASA.

Astronauts in training do acheive weightlessness in a plane, but not because they go really high up. It is because they are in a Plane that doest special manuevers which let them feel like they are weightless. Its nickname is the Vomit Comet. Search it up. Infact, if your richie rich, you can buy a ticket for a ride in that thing. Saw it in Sharper Image.

Answer 7

first enable me state my wisdom, i build jet engines and characteristic for over 20 365 days. a jet engine works via propulsion. air is taken in and is going via countless compression stages. gasoline is then injected and ignited. the outcomes in the tip is the tension out the rear inflicting the plane to be pushed at an exceedingly extreme torque. the physique of the plane is designed to be bullet formed to pass via the air extra convenient with much less wind drag. the physique is then controled with the wing flaps to verify direction of flight. an excellent plane could be to big to make a as we talk up incline, it does not have adequate torque to propel it.a smaller craft such an a militia craft, does have the required means after it fairly is in flight. such craft do make vertical and horzonial strikes. now for the 2d area of your question, lots of the militia craft can fly in the top stages of the ambience. whilst a craft gets too extreme, warmth will become a element upon the outer shell. additionally there isn't adequate air to compress to maintain the engine working top. g-tension additionally will become a element right here additionally. the pilot could probably pass unconsious additionally except the craft replaced into equiped with the perfect oxygen.

Answer 8

An aircraft can't do it; the engines require air. A rocket, of course, can do it; the space shuttle is an example. But there is no particular use in going straight out as opposed to going into orbit; you can add the additional velocity to go toward the moon or elsewhere from earth orbit.

Answer 9

What plane?

Planes need air to fly in. Most planes would give up at about 50,000ft. The wings would get no lift, the engines no oxygen, and most importantly, no oxygen to breath.

Answer 10

The airplane engine would run out of sufficient air necessary for thrust.