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| * Meteorite antidote: if you're flying a spacecraft in some sci-fi setting where meteorites were poisonous? | | * Meteorite antidote: if you're flying a spacecraft in some sci-fi setting where meteorites were poisonous? |
| The others I don't have an idea for, which is why I came here looking for the explanation. --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.98.37|172.70.98.37]] 00:53, 9 October 2021 (UTC) | | The others I don't have an idea for, which is why I came here looking for the explanation. --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.98.37|172.70.98.37]] 00:53, 9 October 2021 (UTC) |
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− | : I think you could be on to something. However, the sextant was really used in airliners literally 40 years ago. The 70s and early 80s can hardly be called early history of aviation. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.89.64|162.158.89.64]] 06:05, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
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− | :Navigational crystals are actually a real thing used historically. Look up "sunstone". They seem to be hard to use, but could somewhat replace the sextant on cloudy days or during twilight when the stars aren't quite visible as they would let you see where the sun is anyway. [[User:Kapten-N|Kapten-N]] ([[User talk:Kapten-N|talk]]) 15:08, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
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| [[Special:Contributions/141.101.69.120|141.101.69.120]] 21:49, 11 October 2021 (UTC) probably "decoy tickets" are somehow related to a load of false targets any combat aeroplane tends to carry. When attacked by a homing missile, the pilot can drop decoys to lure the missile away from the aeroplane. | | [[Special:Contributions/141.101.69.120|141.101.69.120]] 21:49, 11 October 2021 (UTC) probably "decoy tickets" are somehow related to a load of false targets any combat aeroplane tends to carry. When attacked by a homing missile, the pilot can drop decoys to lure the missile away from the aeroplane. |
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− | Goggles were(are?) regularly used on open-cockpit planes, nose plugs seems to be a kind of spark plug, sometimes used on the engine of such vehicles (I first thought it may have to do with the plane's nose, but it doesn't look so). Surprisingly I found some pictures of bird nests in aircraft engines on the way, but I doubt this has to do with the seeds. In general a lot can be explained by interpreting "you haven't flown in a while" as referred to a pilot and the "in a while" to several decades.--[[Special:Contributions/162.158.94.219|162.158.94.219]] 18:54, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
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− | the wing glue could be a reference to that one story from Greek mythology where Icarus flys close to the sun and the wing glue melts--[[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.146|162.158.74.146]] 00:32, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
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− | I am a bit disappointed that this is only a list of things to bring, neglecting the equally important list of things to *not* bring, and not using the potential of alternations between them (as one could create, for example, for electronics and their batteries). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.88.113|162.158.88.113]] 13:38, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
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− | There are some errors in the table… [[User:XkcdPhone|XkcdPhone]] ([[User talk:XkcdPhone|talk]]) 00:51, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
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− | Keys to the plane may be in reference to a prank that is sometimes played on new airline pilots where the captain asks the new pilot where the keys are or if they have the keys. --[[User:Abrickwall|Abrickwall]] ([[User talk:Abrickwall|talk]]) 19:57, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
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