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When I saw Stephen in his pilot (/bursar) uniform in the first second of this video, I immediately shouted “because there’s more than one!” out of pure instinct. 😂
And this actually looks like he picked this up in that moment, rather than being something prepared in advance. Immediate reaction, and brilliantly delivered. Bill Baley is one of my absolute favourites as a QI guest. Even using a pen as an inagined pipe for a prop to play the classic English gentleman is funny every time. He and Alan seems to fit together well, often driving each other into the most hilarious stuff.
"we have sold two" and the way it was delivered, may have made me laugh harder than anything I'd ever seen on this program. And I've seen every episode way more than once
Quite! Fred MacAuley, a naturally very funny man. Naturally funny types (as opposed to brilliant script-delivery types, like, say, Ricky Gervais) tend to do very well on QI.
@@ripdbtpoo1441Unsure if that was sarcastic, but I think they meant he narrated it for an audiobook. 😄 Like he did Harry Potter, as was mentioned in this vid.
And despite his confession that he had never read 1994, he recently narrated an audio book of it, so obviously that isn't true any more. The audio narration thing is quite the nifty side hustle - he can probably do it in his pjs.
4:08 As our host mentions, almost off hand, there is an "Auto land" system nowadays. I have had the unfortunate opportunity of experiencing this at LHR on a BA flight from HAM on a couple of occasions. The first time we hit the runway with such force that the pilot came on the intercom and apologised for it, explained that it was the computer and signed off saying that there's no way I'm taking credit for that abomination!
@@lynnettesue6240 From an insider, the pilots have been dissuaded from telling us beforehand ~ understandable opportunity for a bit of a scream from some passengers, I'd imagine. He was also apparently breaking rules by coming on the air and apologising. I think that you could file it under "Progress" to an automated future (by stealth) ...
Another reason that the both-pilots-incapacitated scenario is very unlikely is that pilots can deadhead on airliners as part of their commute, so very frequently there are multiple additional pilots already on board (sometimes in uniform, sometimes not). This is less likely on completely full flights of course.
There is a code to access the cockpit. However, access is delayed and there is an 'override' so the pilots can prevent entry (that's how the co-pilot on the 'German wings' aircraft was able to keep the pilot out following a toilet break, as he piloted the aircraft into a mountain).
Funny story: I had never been on a plane before, but my girlfriend had been regularly. She kindly made fun of my anxiousness, meanwhile routinely reading her favorite women's magazine. When the plane took off it suddenly made a terrible and strange noise. I was scared and looked at my experienced girlfriend for reassurance. She however looked more scared than me, pale a ghost. The man on the other side of me saw it happening and told us this type of plane could climb very steeply and this caused the (to us) alarming noise. Once the climb was over we got talking. I jokingly asked whether he was a pilot, knowing these things. Not exactly, but he had been a pilot indeed, in WWII, to be exact. He had been a bomber pilot. I had built model planes as a kid, so I asked what type of bomber plane. A Heinkel 111, he responded, he had been in the Luftwaffe. Nice guy, nothing nazi about him. Anyway, a reassuring thought to have an extra pilot aboard.
I first read first _1984_ in the early 60s, but not in school. My older brother was into science fiction and had the paperback. I reread it in the 70s after college because I remember telling a friend some detail I finally saw the importance of. I reread it again a few years ago. Scary fiction in the 60s. Scarier and not nearly as fictional now.
Sandi refers to the tunnel boring machine by the side of the motorway, bearing the sign ‘One careful owner’. However that particular machine was not used to bore under the Channel. It was actually used to bore the tunnel through the hillside on the UK side between Cheriton (the Terminal) and Shakespeare Cliff, where the undersea tunnel begins.
It is easy to land the plane. The trick is landing it so you can walk away. Gravity will take care of your approach to the ground. It is just that sudden stop in the end.
The first one has happened. Helios airways flight 522. Plane lost pressurisation and as such all the passengers and crew were incapacitated. Flight attendant attempted to save the situation and fly the plane however was unsuccessful due to running out of fuel.
I tell you whats sad, its when dolphins reject you. And as theyre pissing back off to the ocean you just look back to your carers on the shore and say "well, i suppose we just continue on with the medication then"
There have been private planes where a passenger has landed it. There is one where the ATC recording is on RU-vid. IIRC, they talked him down over the phone because he had cell service and didn't know how to change the frequency of his radio.
Big klaxon for the researchers on the landing a plane myth. IF you were let into the cockpit apparently it's not difficult if you are talked in. They tested this on Mythbusters in a simulater and both Jamie and Adam landed successfully when being talked down and neither had any flying experience.
A gyro doesn’t sense north. It senses movement. To get direction, you need to know which way it pointed when it was spun up. Same as an Inertial Navigation System.
My favourite is "Why was the March Hare so important to the Aztecs?" from Victoria Coren Mitchell's dream: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Mx5x549Vb2E.html
There was a flight attendant that tried to fly commercial plane after the crew passed out. There is a code to get into the cockpit. The flight was to Athens and by the time he took over the plane was out of fuel and despite his attempts the plane crashed killing all on board. 🙄😔
"Never happened in commercial aviation", small plane happened whereby pilot had a heart attack, and his friend was instructed how to land the plane, and he did!
Yep, it's happened a bunch of times in private aviation. There are in fact "pinch hitter" courses for spouses of pilots who want to have enough basic knowledge to know what to do to get down safely in case their spouse pilot is suddenly incapacitated while they're flying.
@@ripdbtpoo1441 Having just googled that--to be fair, the pilot lost consciousness, Rowan kept the plane stable, the pilot woke back up and completed the landing.
Having an English accent here in NZ causes people to assume I Know Things, and I get asked random general knowledge stuff (the Indian lady in the local shop keeps doing it, as did the nurses at work)... I call it the Stephen Fry effect.
I wonder if the cabin crew use their bells to indicate that there is a legitimate reason for opening the cockpit door? Those ding-dong sounds you hear when boarding can also be used as a form of secret code between cabin and cockpit, so they probably can tell the captain, via ding-dongs, that they're going to be replaced by someone utterly clueless. Apparently using the radio and contacting someone who can help on the ground is one of the hardest parts for a layperson to get right (along with adjusting the seat). The rest can be relatively automated, provided the airport has the equipment to assist with automated landings.
I don't get how Steven didn't correct them on the amount of tunnels under the channel... As there's actually three. One for each direction, plus a service tunnel.
The first one has happened hasn't it? Flight 93, the plane during 9/11 which didn't reach its destination. The passengers seized control from the hijackers, but nobody knew how to fly it.
Could be. Mythbusters episode s05e25 "Airplane Hour". You can find it online easily. It's about 38 minutes into the episode. The fellow in charge of the NASA simulator said "most modern jets" can do it with the autopilot. Engage the autopilot, press a couple of buttons, set the speed, altitude, heading. Then near the airport, press the button labeled "app" (approach).
How would someone who knew what they were doing land a plane, or how would I land a plane? If it's the latter, probably via a headlong plunge like a lawn dart.
What is so terrible about not knowing how to adjust a seat you have never sat in before? The first time I ever sat in a cockpit seat the instructor showed me how to adjust it so I was comfortable and my feet reached the rudder pedals
nothing, its the banality of not being able to do "the basic things" in a commercial cockpit because its such a difference to private planes that shows how much difference there is even though both are pilots, contrary to common misconceptions thats being drawn attention to.
Compare this to American television game shows where they ask the players to name five words that start with the letter ''S'' and many of them can't name three!🤣 The gap in education world wide has become a grand canyon.😂
Well they have something to do with each other because they are all vertebrates! All fish, and all birds, and mammals and reptiles and amphibians are descended from the first vertebrate. The reason a fish is not a sound taxonomic group is because it is a paraphyletic group. The clade that all fish belong to is also the clade that all vertebrates belong to. Likewise monkeys are not a proper biological clade, because the ancestor of all monkeys is also the ancestor of all apes. If we exclude the apes from the monkeys, then that is a paraphyletic group. And so we say simian.
1. "They say of the Parthenon......." 2. "Tossing Ewoks into a pool of farts......" 3. "Because once they start talking you can't shut them up....." You've missed a few that imho are a lot better!
The last bit has to be wrong, right? The earth is about 40.000 km in circumference and the highest point sticks up by about 9km. Surely that's a lot more rough than a billiard ball?
Nope. But then, if you scaled up the billiard ball, the peaks would very quickly collapse, to roughly equal height of the largest mountains on earth. Gravity limits the height of the mountains. But, at billiard ball size, there’s not enough mass to cause the peaks to collapse into the valleys. So the earth is smoother than a billiard ball.
For the first part, there are example of people in private planes losing the pilot and being guided on how to land by air control. Also private pilot's with no flight sim experience on a commercial flight obviously can't figure out a boing 747 but obviously flight sims are available has games and we're also used in professional flight some like the Microsoft flight sims. People who play those games could man a complex plane. Same thing happened in formula 1. They toke people who did competitive F1 sim racing and had them go against F1 pilots and some of the sim pros were better then the pilots because then end up having more time in F1 cars in races then F1 pilots
@@3Immotommi3 F1 themself, they have a sim game which they market as realistic. They held a tournament and the top winer's went against F1 pilots. The players were much more skilled the the pilots. F1 pilots come from go-kart and other form of racing needing a few hundred hours of racing over many years to get a spot. Players get 100s of race hours in a year via sim. A few exceptions at the tournament was a few of the young pilots also had racked up some time on Sims. Microsoft flight sim users do how ever have better chances I believe at flying real planes then F1 sim pilots since Microsoft has a few dozen of years at making their sims for real simulator, having a community of real pilots and all plane control panels being usable allowing users to fallow the proper instructions for takeoff and landing as well as using the radios and fligh plan system. As well as setting up autopilots. F1 series is much more gamified
It is worth noting that the f1 drivers did not lose to sim drivers in real races, they lost to them in SIM races. The original comment might have been confusing to some. Of course F1 drivers wouldn't lose to Sim drivers in real life races, given the insane physical fitness and the even more insane bravery and agression needed to drive in F1. But the technical "car handling" skill, as far as it can be simulated, is far from the only dynamic. As someone with their pilots license, regular planes are super easy to fly. Many of the hours of training are in safety and reactions to emergencies. It is just like a motorcycle or a car: super easy to do, but good training necessary to do safely. And the skills in a basic private car or plane don't perfectly translate over to a race car, big rig, commercial plane, or fighter jet. Each requires their own highly specialized training.
QI has been running for 20 years. I don't know how old are all the episodes from which these questions were taken, but at least one of them was 2005. I'm sure most of the answers were not very widely known at the time of airing otherwise the researchers would not have selected them.
I dislike being argumentative. I find it difficult to believe these are the top five. I've never searched for any of these, and I have rewatched a number of QI episodes.
to be most viewed is vs most published eg if i only push 6 question top 5 not hard to produce, so a shit show1 what you learn quickly is john davies is shit without 2 year old comedy and a prop, thus no tv appearances!
@@SaneNoMore The nice thing about science is that it can be repeated. Other fishermen can go out and capture the same fish and confirm its size. Some experiments can be done at home, and some require massive machines or large teams of scientists all over the world. But it's all the same science. You could, if you really wanted to, train to get a job at a scientific institution and make those measurements yourself.
@@Narokkurai True (though they often delve into realms that they cannot actually use scientific methods on such as the Big Bang). I was just making a silly joke about how they comment in the video about discovering things that can’t be seen.
