Which causes us to need more climate change as we get more flights. Sad but true.
How helicopters can turn directly upside down, and fly that way[1], without reversing the direction of their props, that I don't get. (Thinking about it now, I think it turns from a helicopter to a hovercraft? Eg, this is a ground effect?)
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdDESYBdeSE
Also, tangentially, Magnus effect planes are a thing:
Obviously not the most probable explanation, but I found the story interesting.
https://mysteriesrunsolved.com/2020/07/ghosts-of-flight-401....
I'd like to say that even back then I mostly didn't really believe all that stuff, but I think maybe I kinda did, at least to a degree. Now I think it's all bollocks, and maybe that's one of the things I miss about being a kid... that sense of fascination with the mysterious and unknown and the sense of possibility that comes with allowing yourself to believe in the Bermuda Triangle, ghosts, yadda yadda.
I would like to have that again, if only for a few moments.
Planes fly higher and higher for better fuel efficiency and are starting to capture some of the lower ghosts.
Boeing is suppressing this.
“Do you believe in ghosts?”
“No, do you?”
“Yeah, a bit. Think about all the times people saw and heard ghosts. Every single one of those times was wrong? Seems unlikely.”
“Do you believe in angels?”
“No.”
“Then what about all the times people saw an angel?”
“Those were just ghosts.”
"Then how do you explain all the dead unicorns?"