Tag: flying
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Background Noise and Taste Perception
It has been suggested that the physiological effects of pressurisation are responsible for the blandness of in-flight airline meals. However the real reason behind “diminishing gustatory food properties” (food tasting rubbish) while 32,000 feet above sea level could be a lot simpler: the background noise. A study conducted by Unilever R&D and the University of…
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Something Different: BA Flight 5390
In the summer of 1990 British Airways Flight 539 took off from Birmingham, UK for Málaga, Spain. You could say that the flight didn’t exactly go according to plan. At 17,300 feet a cockpit window suffered a ‘failure’, and by ‘failure’ I mean the window departed the aircraft and the unstrapped captain headed towards the…
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Feel Safe Flying? Stay Away From Here, Then
From The Guardian The Professional Pilots’ Rumour Network is a publicly accessible online forum where airline pilots discuss their work. So if you want to maintain the belief that you are in safe hands… stay as far away from it as possible. Thanks, Matt