Distance travelled while eating

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IIRC, C5’s top passenger area also uses backward facing seats.

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My only carrier landing was aboard a COD in rear facing seats, (press junket abourd the USS Ranger off the coast of California) Absolutely right about the take-off, but the rear facers were OK for the landing.

My only carrier launch (same trip) was also in a COD but because the load was so light, we did not catapault off. Instead we launched conventionally from the arrester gear along the run off ramp. I could see flight deck above my head as we left the ramp.

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The RAF configure their passenger carrying aircraft with rearwards facing seats. This is far safer in the event of an accident but would not go down well with fair paying passengers in the civilian world. Having said that some BAC 1-11’s had one row of rear facing seats positioned at the over wing exits.

To answer the original question – a good rule of thumb is to work on 8 miles a minute for normal jets. I guess the longest distance would depend on how many courses!

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Dave
True, but I do get a kick out of eating precisely and carefully packing all the wrappers into the little plastic box’s and even placing the cutlery tidily on my tray, trying to get everything once its finished with into a container. Annoys the hell out of who ever is sitting next to me but great fun all the same and no, I’m not like that at home

Andrew

Yup, good ‘ol RAF airlines. I’m not in the forces but get the option to travel in style once in a while. I havent been in any of the Vicky’s configured for tanking but have been in both types of Timmy, one for pax and one for pax / freight. gotta admit the freighter is better cos theres less seating, hence more elbow / leg room.

Cheers

Gary

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however the topic took much thought and imagination….I am impressed.

simple dist/time relationship so YOU TOO can measure just how far it takes to eat a packet of peanuts……….lets say, for the sake of multiples of two…(120 kts = 2NM/min)540 knots(sounds about right).

so you know that slowly eating that excuse for a scrambled egg at breakfast is actually taking you about 50 NM…..(approx 75 statute miles)

coanda

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even tankers have opposite facin seats???

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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 06-11-02 AT 11:07 PM (GMT)]Gary

Surely the question’s relative as not everybody eats at the same speed

Dave :7 :7

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RAF… tankers i assume?

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Who did you fly with then? I didn’t know any airlines still used the vc10?

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‘Fraid so mate.

Its either a Vicky10 or a Timmy Tristar that I use to fly back and forth from the UK. VC10’s are weird cos the seats face backward and when you rotate during take off, you end up almost falling out of the seat onto your face and its not natural when the guy in the front presses the loud levers and you dont get pressed into the back of your seat…the seat leaves you!!!!.

Gotta admit the roar when they open the taps on the Conways makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. I’ll send you some piccies in the next few days, if you like.

Cheers

Gary

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You flew on a VC-10?