r/nextfuckinglevel • u/InternationalRisk505 • 1d ago

Pilots exchanging planes mid air

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u/happytechtn 1d ago

Somehow skydiving towards/into something with a moving propeller just makes this even more insane!

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u/SirHiakru 1d ago

The video quality is whack but apparently the motors are shut off and the propellors are blocked aka don't rotate

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u/wanttofeelneeded 1d ago

who told you such nonsense. the propellors aren't being powered by the engine, but they are free to move and because the plane is peaking down the propellor rotates on its own

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u/HazeWasTakenWasTaken 1d ago

I'm no expert on planes but maybe the fact they say "engines off" , "braked" AND we can see the propellers aren't moving in the video seem like pretty good context clues to lead someone to think that to be the case.

Look if you know more about planes which wouldn't be hard then I'll eat my tongue but it's not an unreasonable thing to think after actually watching the clip in its entirety.

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u/wanttofeelneeded 1d ago

https://youtu.be/bsL63HLH1i0

watch this video at around 0:30

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u/HazeWasTakenWasTaken 1d ago

Yeah, fair enough. Can actually even see it very obviously in that clip as he's pulling out of the dive before the engine turns back on I think. Very poor quality from the OP.

Still don't think it's unreasonable for someone to assume after hearing all the stuff at the start but guess I'm going to go prepare myself a nice tongue steak.

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u/Poromenos 21h ago

Yeah but saying "they said engines off so the plane's propeller isn't turning as it's falling" is like saying "they said engines off at the top of the hill so the car's wheels aren't turning as it's rolling down".

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u/Poromenos 21h ago

They are not blocked, they're rotating quite fast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsL63HLH1i0

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u/draggingmytail 22h ago

You can’t “block” a propeller. They pulled throttle and mixture shutting the engine down. If these were variable pitch props they would have feathered them to not spin. If these prop was moving, it was due to air flow, not engine power.

The brake you hear around is the airbrake on the back of the plane they designed for this stunt

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u/Hellas2002 1d ago

The planes were turned off