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GAM409: The Flight That Disappeared

🕑 Added 2023-06-19 16:48:47 +0000 UTC

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Beth Hasse

I love a good cockswain

Uriah Jackson

It turns out that co-pilots do make less money. Being the captain on a flight has higher requirements in terms of flight hours. The co-pilot has a small amount of specific duties and requires the Captain's permission to do anything outside of those duties.

Justin S.

Despite the movie sounding terrible, this episode was fantastic. Marsh episodes are always top notch.

potato potato also another potato

Yeah, just sounds like a long twilight zone episode, one of the more bland ones

potato potato also another potato

I believe so, or at least that was the colloquial understanding

potato potato also another potato

I’m sure it’s bad, but this sounds like classic twilight zone stuff, and I adore the twilight zone

Michael Jenkins

So, did Noah just drop a reference to a Calabi-Yau manifold? I think we just reached peak nerd podcast.

Timothy Thayer

Hopefully the guys find this as fascinating as I do. The third flight crew member is the flight engineer. Old airplanes had a bunch of systems. Pilots have to aviate, navigate, and communicate. In that order. Having all those systems to monitor makes aviation difficult so there was typically a flight engineer to monitor aircraft vitals. As autopilot got more complicated and capable, they began to be able to operate more autonomously. That and things like multi function displays that reduced the number of gauges. These things reduced the flight crew's work load and negated the need for the engineer position. That's why most planes now don't have that third flight crew member.

Markus D

The origin of the term "cockpit" is really weird. Like, it did first mean "the place where cocks fight" since at least 1580, but it was also a 17th-century nautical term for "where the cockswain piloted a small boat from" so presumably it's a term that started from boats and was transferred to planes, like several terms were, i.e. the use of port and starboard.

Elvis Manson

Slightly older nerds could not miss that Helen, the crazy man's blind wife, was played by Meg Wyllie. THE Meg Wyllie? Yep, the Keeper in the classic Star Trek episode The Menagerie.

Nicholas Monter

CRAZY BILLIONAIRE Remake: Make an Airplane like parody of this movie (in the same way Airplane was a parody of Zero Hour).

Starshark

I can't be arsed looking this up, but I think "ESP" was the shorthand for telepathy in old-timey times. They used it in The Black Hole in a similarly confusing way (even worse because they were telepathically communicating with robots).

Mark H

I honestly figured you guys were going to call a mulligan and do a different movie. This one was so…meh. Not really religious, not even toxic in message. Just boring and vague.