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Apr. 22nd, 2020 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynWoke up this morning straight from REM sleep; my alarm went off while I was in the first third or so of a preflight check before takeoff. I was thumping my hand against the fuselage to hear the point at which the sound went from 'nothing here' to 'yeah, that's the fuel line' when it woke me up.
It was a taildragger airplane in the dream,not a helicopter, but I watched a video yesterday going over the mistakes that had been made in a near-miss situation at a small untowered airport that catered to several different kinds of craft, and one of the near-miss craft was a biplane. Those are all pretty much tail draggers by default, so I think that's where my brain got the image from.
I'm having a hard time remembering any dreams about cars, but flying? That's in my subconscious, all right.
NB: 'taildragger' does not actually mean the rear end of the plane is scraping the dirt. But it does mean that out of three wheels, two are under the vicinity of the wings and the third is under the tail section, so when the plane is on the ground its nose is up in the air. I'm not sure why they shifted away from that kind of design, but most small fixed-wing craft I know of have two wheels under the wing area or somewhat aft of that and the third wheel under the nose.
It was a taildragger airplane in the dream,not a helicopter, but I watched a video yesterday going over the mistakes that had been made in a near-miss situation at a small untowered airport that catered to several different kinds of craft, and one of the near-miss craft was a biplane. Those are all pretty much tail draggers by default, so I think that's where my brain got the image from.
I'm having a hard time remembering any dreams about cars, but flying? That's in my subconscious, all right.
NB: 'taildragger' does not actually mean the rear end of the plane is scraping the dirt. But it does mean that out of three wheels, two are under the vicinity of the wings and the third is under the tail section, so when the plane is on the ground its nose is up in the air. I'm not sure why they shifted away from that kind of design, but most small fixed-wing craft I know of have two wheels under the wing area or somewhat aft of that and the third wheel under the nose.
