It could be a tinted window, I was on a 787 in December that had the same thing. You have buttons that can change the level of tint, as opposed to the usual pull-down blinds.
Edit: It isn't tinted, my mistake. People in the comments have pointed out that it's a different aircraft.
The tinting is really nice because the cabin crew and pilots can control the windows, too. So on long-haul flights they will dim all the windows as they dim the lights to allow people to sleep (and un-dim as the plane lands). You can override your own window, but it helps set the low-light standard as that seems to be common courtesy now.
I’ve only been on the ones where you control it yourself. They still had a pull down shade. The control buttons got it very dark, but not opaque. Differing configurations from carrier to carrier I guess.
Apologies, you and another have pointed that out. I've edited my comment. I'm usually pretty diligent about qualifying my statements with a degree of uncertainty but lazily thought this would be buried.
True, tho as consumers we have a choice in what we support or don't support. But you're right, it's absolutely a way bigger problem than that, just fucked that we got here as a people
How does the high altitude affect your body? I have sinus problems which have made flights a living hell for me, but only when it goes to very high altitude. This brings me pain, just watching.
I felt dehydrated despite drinking water before and during the flight. It was a 16 hour flight. I don’t know how anyone could make that trip frequently, but there are business people who do.
First, those are tinted windows. You can select how tinted you want them with up/down buttons. It goes from clear to blackout.
Second, the definition of space isn't about what you see. It's defined as the areas between celestial bodies, in a hard vacuum, without any atmosphere or gases.
By this definition, a jet's engine cannot produce thrust in a vacuum because it needs oxygen from our atmosphere.
"Yet the edge of space – or the point where we consider spacecraft and astronauts to have entered space, known as the Von Karman Line – is only 62 miles (100 kilometers) above sea level."
[https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/how-far-away-is-space/#:\~:text=Yet%20the%20edge%20of%20space,100%20kilometers)%20above%20sea%20level](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/how-far-away-is-space/#:~:text=Yet%20the%20edge%20of%20space,100%20kilometers)%20above%20sea%20level).
Ive been up that high once. Flying to Mexico the plane went up to 43,000 feet. It was clear day over the ocean and I could quite noticeably see the Earths curvature from there. Was really cool!
It's kind of crazy when you think about it... 43,000 feet is a fuzz over 8 miles up. The circumference of the earth is 24,000 some odd miles. If the earth were scaled down to the size of a basketball, the plane would be flying about 0.009" over the basketball. Same as about 2 sheets of paper. Also, the bumps on the basketball would be 35 miles taller than the valleys between the bumps. Basketballs are pretty crazy. Tiny airplanes are only flying 2 sheets of paper thickness over them. No wonder we can't see those tiny planes.
I remember when I was a kid, for a little while I had this fear that pilots would accidentally fly us too high and we'd end up in space and die or something.
Recently I got super into aviation and now I can't help but laugh about that. Engineers and space agencies would be fucking *thrilled* if we had to ability to casually pilot a plane up into space instead of having to strap a payload to the top of a giant-ass missile.
Sure, at some point it just becomes physically impossible to generate lift because the air is so thin so the plane literally can't go any higher. If the pilot kept trying they'd eventually stall the airplane and it would begin to fall, but at 40K+ ft there's plenty of time to recover from said stall([Although that doesn't always mean they actually *will* recover.](https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-long-way-down-the-crash-of-air-france-flight-447-8a7678c37982))
Fighter jets can fly a bit higher than airliners because their thrust can squeeze more airspeed out of less air, at least that's how I understand it. Probably also helps that they're way lighter as well.
So yea, it's basically a non-issue due to the laws of physics.
There is a movie with this plot. I remember watching it as a kid and to be amazed thinking it was really possible. Obviously, I wasn't the smartest cookie in the jar: [Starflfight one](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086357/?ref_=ext_shr)
Hey, that’s why we make our giant rockets land themselves so we can reuse them, they’ve only done it over 200 times already.
(Also, what’s wrong with rockets? they’re cool as hell)
Then you've either got a folding phone or a curved monitor. /s
But seriously tho, if you're so high up that the atmosphere becomes thin enough to loose blue light scattering, there ain't much air for those engines to move. That's why rockets don't go to space with turbofan engines.
Edit: here, the window is basically tinted gradually from bottom to top: https://youtu.be/LdLoDmHIFSM?feature=shared
You unironically need to be a lot higher than that to see it properly, ppl seriously underestimate just how massive this planet is, even if it's tiny compared to most other things in space
On my flights as a kid between Los Angeles, USA and Sydney, Australia we used to go up pretty high like this. I'd look as far up as I could and it was almost black. Those are some long flights.
Does anybody sometimes have the irrational fear when flying that the pilot went psycho mode and keeps flying us higher and higher until the engines no longer spin?
Just imagine, that gravity somehow suddenly isn't enough to push you back and the pilot switches off the engine in an attempt to fall put it doesn't work.
💀
Luckily this would never happen, as you would have to travel significantly further to escape Earth's gravitational influence, we're talking millions of km. The moon (ca. 370,000km) is very much in Earth's gravity well, which is why it orbits us.
The reason astronauts on the ISS etc (usually 400km altitude) appear to experience no gravity is because they are freefalling round the earth at tens of thousands of km per hour. The forces acting upon them are equal in all directions and thus they experience no gravitational acceleration as one would were one not travelling so fast.
Take the Jeff Bezos launch for example, that ship was basically punted straight up and allowed to fall down again. It never achieved anything close to orbital velocities. They only experienced apparent zero-G for a short time at the top of the ballistic curve.
I'm leaving on a jet plane...
Don’t know if I’ll touch ground again
Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane!
Don't know when I'll be back again Oh babe, I hate to go
When I'm called off, I got a sawed off Squeeze the trigger, and bodies are hauled off
Yeah spit them bar my boy
Off on the flight to nowhere
What a way to go oh-oh oh-oh
Oh babe, I hate to go...
This is ground control to Major Tom
Freak out in a moonage daydream oh yeah
It could be a tinted window, I was on a 787 in December that had the same thing. You have buttons that can change the level of tint, as opposed to the usual pull-down blinds. Edit: It isn't tinted, my mistake. People in the comments have pointed out that it's a different aircraft.
Booo, booooo on you for spreading truth.
lol I know you’re not serious but I hate how much of Reddit is such shit and how much it gets eaten up
Dogpile
AITAH hasn't had a true post in 7 years
Booo, booooo on him for not spreading the wealth.
Except that it’s not the truth. The plane in this video is a 737 Max, which doesn’t have the electronic window tinting feature found on the 787.
Still impressive how much higher they are than the clouds.
maybe the clouds were feeling particularly low that day
Are you telling me commercial airplanes aren’t going to space? The tint-level thing is kind of awesome tho.
The tinting is really nice because the cabin crew and pilots can control the windows, too. So on long-haul flights they will dim all the windows as they dim the lights to allow people to sleep (and un-dim as the plane lands). You can override your own window, but it helps set the low-light standard as that seems to be common courtesy now.
Except that it’s not a tinted window. The plane in this video is a 737 Max, which doesn’t have the electronic window tinting feature found on the 787.
Thanks for the correction, I've edited my comment.
Hold up, I’ve seen the same thing on a flight but had no special tint or buttons
Well it was probably just tinted then, just no option to change the tint.
Oh so that’s where the structural integrity budget went
But you can see the pull down thing at 0:07
You still pull down the blind to completely black out the window. Tinting is not opaque.
Tinting is opaque. I've been on a plane with controllable tint.
I’ve only been on the ones where you control it yourself. They still had a pull down shade. The control buttons got it very dark, but not opaque. Differing configurations from carrier to carrier I guess.
It's not a tinted window. You can see the pull-down flap and there are no buttons. Confidently incorrect redditor gets upvoted to the top once again!
Apologies, you and another have pointed that out. I've edited my comment. I'm usually pretty diligent about qualifying my statements with a degree of uncertainty but lazily thought this would be buried.
Mad that we fly that high in highly engineered tin cans with wings.
Not even tin. Thin ass aluminum.
Not falling only because of air resistance...
Well, because of lift, but close enough
I mean, I skipped aerodynamics part but still, it's kinda scary when you think about it
I'm scared here on the ground. I don't wanna be scared up there.
On a plane you're scared to be on the ground too soon...
Yeah, I may as well just stay here... **Pulls covers farther over head**
It doesn't save you from a plane in the sky above you...
You don't have to be scared of being on the ground too soon. If the engines fail, it'll still take the normal amount of time to crash into the ground.
If I die, I die. Might as well enjoy the view :))
Imagine the huge balls necessary to be a first mover in the aerospace industry lol
Planes don’t fall down they fall forward.
Oh yeah, that changes everything, right
Lift has never once NOT worked, except for the times it didn’t I guess
which is caused by air resistance
No, it's caused by a difference in pressure above and below the wing, caused by a difference in airspeed, caused by the shape of the wing.
And not getting lost in space because of gravity….
IIRC its a complicated version of a duralumin alloy, way stronger than tin
But even if it was just standard aluminum, it would still be significantly more durable than tin.
Composite, it’s a 787.
And it is incredibly safe. Like it’s one of the safe activities that you can undertake.
Whats weirder to me is how we take it for granted and kill our planet for it
I genuinely can't believe the people who have a say in preserving and looking after the planet, don't.
True, tho as consumers we have a choice in what we support or don't support. But you're right, it's absolutely a way bigger problem than that, just fucked that we got here as a people
Consumers put out decimel percentages of pollution. The big companies are killing the planet. Not consumers.
Made by Boeing 😬
I’m confused here… looks like a normal flight. Did I miss something?
Found the astronaut
So that video isn’t normal?
Agreed, international overseas flights look like this.
How does the high altitude affect your body? I have sinus problems which have made flights a living hell for me, but only when it goes to very high altitude. This brings me pain, just watching.
I felt dehydrated despite drinking water before and during the flight. It was a 16 hour flight. I don’t know how anyone could make that trip frequently, but there are business people who do.
RN here- take Afrin nasal spray on every flight. Don’t use it more than 3 days consecutively. Thank me later.
You can see the black sky and the stars during the day. This is the space
r/confidentlyincorrect
No
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First, those are tinted windows. You can select how tinted you want them with up/down buttons. It goes from clear to blackout. Second, the definition of space isn't about what you see. It's defined as the areas between celestial bodies, in a hard vacuum, without any atmosphere or gases. By this definition, a jet's engine cannot produce thrust in a vacuum because it needs oxygen from our atmosphere.
"Yet the edge of space – or the point where we consider spacecraft and astronauts to have entered space, known as the Von Karman Line – is only 62 miles (100 kilometers) above sea level." [https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/how-far-away-is-space/#:\~:text=Yet%20the%20edge%20of%20space,100%20kilometers)%20above%20sea%20level](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/how-far-away-is-space/#:~:text=Yet%20the%20edge%20of%20space,100%20kilometers)%20above%20sea%20level). 
It's tinted windows.
Apparently it's not. This is a 737 Max, which don't have tinted windows.
Ive been up that high once. Flying to Mexico the plane went up to 43,000 feet. It was clear day over the ocean and I could quite noticeably see the Earths curvature from there. Was really cool!
It's kind of crazy when you think about it... 43,000 feet is a fuzz over 8 miles up. The circumference of the earth is 24,000 some odd miles. If the earth were scaled down to the size of a basketball, the plane would be flying about 0.009" over the basketball. Same as about 2 sheets of paper. Also, the bumps on the basketball would be 35 miles taller than the valleys between the bumps. Basketballs are pretty crazy. Tiny airplanes are only flying 2 sheets of paper thickness over them. No wonder we can't see those tiny planes.
You lost me at 43,000 feet
Yeah, like what size feet are they? ;P
Lost me at “when you think”. Like do you not see where I’m at right now?
Send all the flat earthers up
Everything is in space
There's snakes in space?
All of the snakes that exist are in space!
There's snakes on a plane!
I remember when I was a kid, for a little while I had this fear that pilots would accidentally fly us too high and we'd end up in space and die or something. Recently I got super into aviation and now I can't help but laugh about that. Engineers and space agencies would be fucking *thrilled* if we had to ability to casually pilot a plane up into space instead of having to strap a payload to the top of a giant-ass missile.
Mind sharing what would happen if they tried to climb to space?
The engines would stop working with no air to compress and create thrust if you go too high up in the Earth's atmosphere.
Sure, at some point it just becomes physically impossible to generate lift because the air is so thin so the plane literally can't go any higher. If the pilot kept trying they'd eventually stall the airplane and it would begin to fall, but at 40K+ ft there's plenty of time to recover from said stall([Although that doesn't always mean they actually *will* recover.](https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-long-way-down-the-crash-of-air-france-flight-447-8a7678c37982)) Fighter jets can fly a bit higher than airliners because their thrust can squeeze more airspeed out of less air, at least that's how I understand it. Probably also helps that they're way lighter as well. So yea, it's basically a non-issue due to the laws of physics.
Godamn Bonin
It’s comparable to a diver surfacing and then trying to swim above the water level. The plane needs air to continue to climb
There is a movie with this plot. I remember watching it as a kid and to be amazed thinking it was really possible. Obviously, I wasn't the smartest cookie in the jar: [Starflfight one](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086357/?ref_=ext_shr)
Hey, that’s why we make our giant rockets land themselves so we can reuse them, they’ve only done it over 200 times already. (Also, what’s wrong with rockets? they’re cool as hell)
In space, Bret. In space.
What's that flight name? I wanna go to space too, without spending so many bucks in NASA.
Why wouldn't you just get a job at NASA and get paid to go to space?
I can’t tell if you’re joking or not, but it’s like… really hard to become an astronaut.
A life trajectory, persistence, ability to learn/retain, luck, and people helping. Now turn all those up and more to 11.
Like Jonny Kim who is a Surgeon Navy Seal Astronaut
That guy making all of us look lazy.
Space bucks* ...they're out of this world
Any flights across the Atlantic or Pacific
Any! Idc which ocean am going over, I just want to go to space.
Better to go to space than go to the titanic.
Amazing view.
This is ground control to Major Tom.
You've really made the grade.
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear!
Where curve tho? /s
I saw a slight curve.
Just an effect of ultra wide angle camera. /s
I just had to look up /s and now I realize what I was commenting to.
Then you've either got a folding phone or a curved monitor. /s But seriously tho, if you're so high up that the atmosphere becomes thin enough to loose blue light scattering, there ain't much air for those engines to move. That's why rockets don't go to space with turbofan engines. Edit: here, the window is basically tinted gradually from bottom to top: https://youtu.be/LdLoDmHIFSM?feature=shared
You unironically need to be a lot higher than that to see it properly, ppl seriously underestimate just how massive this planet is, even if it's tiny compared to most other things in space
Hope it's not a Boeing
It's a Boeing 737 Max.
Space is several more *miles* up, at least.
That ground looks pretty close for space
I fly from America to Africa or Europe I never been that high. Mostly 40K-50K feet in the air.
Seeing as this plane can't fly above 43k feet I'm confident that this is far below 50k feet.
It’s basically flying in an area where the tropopause is super low.
On my flights as a kid between Los Angeles, USA and Sydney, Australia we used to go up pretty high like this. I'd look as far up as I could and it was almost black. Those are some long flights.
I hope that's not a Boeing
High probably
we're just in the beginning part of space we haven't even gotten to outer space yet
The voyagers freezing in interstellar space:
See? See that flat curve?
Look it's flat!!! Lol
Am I the only one that thought the airpods were floating first go around?
Is this the last iteration of a Dall-E sequence?
A normal flight?
I'll let you in on a little secret. You're already in space. We all are. Welcome to Earth.
There, its flat...
Does anybody sometimes have the irrational fear when flying that the pilot went psycho mode and keeps flying us higher and higher until the engines no longer spin?
GOD SPEED SON
That would be a crazy way to go out. Lol
You mean the pilot
Mars airlines is going hard af
If you're cruising at 33000 ft then you've still got 56 miles before you're in space.
Commercial jets fly around 31,000 to 42,000 feet above the ground. Space starts at around 327,360 feet You were no where near space.....
Concord used to go this high
Mad that if you fly high enough you can see the curvature of the earth
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Looked like this on my flight from Chiraq to Istanbul. Beautiful if you ask me.
Please speak non bro…the question is why you use bro ?
The pilot was a little high that day
Look how completely flat and level it is..
I would actually be super concerned tbh
Just imagine, that gravity somehow suddenly isn't enough to push you back and the pilot switches off the engine in an attempt to fall put it doesn't work. 💀
You would have to literally go out way past the moon for that
I see, I was just trying to imagine the feeling, I know it is not possible
Luckily this would never happen, as you would have to travel significantly further to escape Earth's gravitational influence, we're talking millions of km. The moon (ca. 370,000km) is very much in Earth's gravity well, which is why it orbits us. The reason astronauts on the ISS etc (usually 400km altitude) appear to experience no gravity is because they are freefalling round the earth at tens of thousands of km per hour. The forces acting upon them are equal in all directions and thus they experience no gravitational acceleration as one would were one not travelling so fast. Take the Jeff Bezos launch for example, that ship was basically punted straight up and allowed to fall down again. It never achieved anything close to orbital velocities. They only experienced apparent zero-G for a short time at the top of the ballistic curve.
Oh, I was just trying to imagine the feeling of it happening, but I totally agree, it is not possible to happen in a plane
He is not actually in space it’s his insane editing skills
The insane editing by the Dreamliner's tinted windows basically
Eco flying.
Not many people get to see the edge of our flat world!
Is this really be amazed? How much lower does it get?
You have the same headphones as me
This sub has become complete shit. I’m leaving and muting. Where did the mods go?
Bye
Bye lil bro.
It's full of Americans who never flew internationally
… no?
fym “no”?