planes and turbulance
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- vaxorcist0
My grandfather was an engineer at Boeing....
He said he hated flying DC-8's and DC-9's and anything by Douglass because of the bumpier ride, "all that turbulence transmitted to your spine" as he called it... this was due to the way the wing spars were made in those airplanes, straight, without damping....
He loved flying Boeing, of course because he worked for Boeing, but also because, as the engineers joked the wings went "Boing" on a Boeing, as they were designed to flex and absorb the turbulence....
Ironically Boeing bought Douglass, and I'm sure the engineers of both companies had a few conversations....
I know nothing of Airbus's wing design...
Supposedly the new Boeing 787 has even more flex built into the wing design, but I don't know much about it other than the composite materials in the airframe allow for more humidity in the cabin, so your nose isn't so dried out.....