A while back, I posted my experiences of travelling in an aeroplane for the first time, but I’ve learned a lot about how things work, and why they work the way they do. You might also recall that I had published an eBook version on SmashWords. In recent years, I acquired a really awesome Yeti Blue stereo microphone, and though it was rather cumbersome to be toting around, I had used it to record some typical plane sounds that people could use to know how it would sound.
One thing I liked talking about in my book was the physics and the vestibular illusions pilots are trained to avoid. For instance, the pilot of this this aircraft safety site I went to described bankings as sort of a sensation you feel like you are dropping. As a blind person, I had no way of knowing if I were turning to the left or to the right unless it made a sharp bank. Similarly, I could not tell how high or low we were, for I could not see what was outside the window. So, a yaw is sort of like a swivel or pivot, while a roll is more like a lean to one side. The poster said that planes don’t use their tail rudders to spin as it would be too slow of a turn, but instead it uses ailerons to bank or yaw. The elevator, or stabilator is what gives it its pith.
So, what exactly is a pitch, a role and a yaw. One is X, one is Y, and one is Z, According to geometry, those are not the only things. A figure can move literally in any form, but looking at it on paper, which is two dimensions is rather difficult. It’s not only math we’re looking at here, but it’s how our vestibular and visual systems respond to dynamic and static motion or position. According to an article on Wikipedia, it explains how humans perceive motion with greater technicality than I can understand at this time. The same can be applied for other kinds of movement, like flying, encountering a turbulence, going upside down really fast, experiencing weightlessness and free-fall, you name it. I had the opportunity to practise flipping and somersalting in water, and I really enjoyed it. My hope is to someday learn to SCUBA dive.
I was hoping to contact the author of the previous article to see if they could include audio clips of some of the common sounds a person might hear in an aircraft, but so far I haven’t had any of such luck. Still, that might matter much if I have some of them recorded. For instance, I wanted to see what would happen if I placed a recorder inside my checked luggage. I heard a lot of interesting sounds.
As always, any suggestions on how I can obtain applied kinaesthetic and analogus complicated concepts would be very helpful.