stackyFACTS
Transport

Bomber crews can spend 30 hours in the air

HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART

Delivering payloads across the globe requires pilots to stay airborne for absurd, sleep-deprived durations. Strategic bomber crews endure thirty-hour marathon flights crammed inside noisy, vibrating cockpits, surviving purely on rotation schedules, terrible rations, and heavily suppressed anxiety.

Bomber crews can spend 30 hours in the air
STACKY / Transport
One discovery leads to another.

Keep exploring facts in this topic.

Transport →
STACKY FOR IPHONE

A bigger world.
One discovery
at a time.

Keep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.

Download on the App Store
ONE MORE DISCOVERY?

Keep exploring

All in this topic →
Why doomsday planes still use old-fashioned dials
Transport

Why doomsday planes still use old-fashioned dials

The planes designed to run the world during a nuclear apocalypse purposefully ignore modern touchscreens. They rely on heavily outdated analog dials and…

Discover more
Why fighter jets have golden cockpit glass
Transport

Why fighter jets have golden cockpit glass

The cockpit of a multi-million dollar stealth jet looks glamorous, but that shimmering yellow hue isn't there for luxury. The glass is actually impregnated…

Discover more
Military tanks steer by stopping treads on one side
Transport

Military tanks steer by stopping treads on one side

When your vehicle weighs sixty tons, delicately turning the front axle is an entirely laughable concept. Tanks lack any form of traditional steering…

Discover more
Early pilots refueled planes by passing a hose mid-air
Transport

Early pilots refueled planes by passing a hose mid-air

Today, military jets seamlessly refuel mid-air using highly sophisticated automated booms and laser guidance. In the roaring twenties, it was basically two…

Discover more
How tanks hide from thermal cameras
Transport

How tanks hide from thermal cameras

When an armored column gets caught in the open, they don't just pop regular smoke grenades to hide. They launch complex, multi-spectral aerosol blasts…

Discover more
Russian Typhoon-class submarines were engineered to be the largest underwater vessels ever constructed, featuring bizarre amenities like an onboard swimming pool, a sauna, and a bird sanctuary.
Transport

Russian Typhoon-class submarines were engineered to be the largest underwater vessels ever constructed, featuring bizarre amenities like an onboard swimming pool, a sauna, and a bird sanctuary.

Russian Typhoon-class submarines were engineered to be the largest underwater vessels ever constructed, featuring bizarre amenities like an onboard swimming…

Discover more
StackyMore discoveries in the app
Download on the App Store