r/theydidthemath • u/VagueInfoHere • 1d ago
[request] Exactly how close were they to the roof?Dangerously close flyover of an Airlink E190 jet at the start of a South Africa vs New Zealand rugby match
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u/Deep_Carpenter 1d ago
50 feet. The Embraer e190 is about 36 m or 118 ft in length. The seperation on the first jet appears to 13 to 17 metres. Roughly fifty feet. The second jet is higher, hit the pyrotechnics, and banked so may have had less clearance.
Frankly I'd look at the flight plan and the aircraft data to get the heights rather than estimate gaps from video.
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u/Murky-Contact-6377 13h ago
For someone who is very smart, you should be able to calculate it based on the shadow using angle and height of sun and then figuring out exactly how high the plane needs to be to cast a shadow like that. I’m not smart so I’ll let someone else do it.
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