Airport Runway Lights Built for Brutal Winters 💡 Ice Airport Alaska | Smithsonian Channel

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  • Опубліковано 29 гру 2024

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  • @OriginalJetForMe
    @OriginalJetForMe Рік тому +2

    This stuff is so cool, please don't cheese it up with the überdramatic production style. The intense music, the breathless, hyperbolic voiceover. Just staahhhp.

  • @ninjanerdstudent6937
    @ninjanerdstudent6937 Рік тому +2

    "it's a lot of work, so if we don't have to, we just put it back." I like that man's attitude.

  • @SidarthDasari
    @SidarthDasari Рік тому +4

    Is the dramatization of changing a light bulb really necessary? Just show how the stuff works

  • @amitgp271
    @amitgp271 3 роки тому +5

    Nice video

  • @Ananth8193
    @Ananth8193 3 роки тому +2

    Awesome ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @sox-on-a-duck693
    @sox-on-a-duck693 3 роки тому +18

    So why don't they design those lights with a tapered shaft that snaps back upright after being hit by a plow?

    • @_gungrave_6802
      @_gungrave_6802 Рік тому

      Better option would be to make them retract into the ground so that ground crew can go right over them without causing any damage.

    • @cokemango
      @cokemango Рік тому +3

      @@_gungrave_6802 6000 motors that have to operate in all conditions, wouldn't work, I feel like they could automate this in the future with pathfinding snowplows.

    • @_gungrave_6802
      @_gungrave_6802 Рік тому +1

      @@cokemango You can install a pneumatic system that uses compressed air or some sort of low temperature rated fluid to fold the lights into the ground during maintenance and raise them for when the runway is in use.

    • @someguy4915
      @someguy4915 Рік тому +2

      @@_gungrave_6802 Which would mean that a single failure in the pressurized supply line would instantly disable all lights on the system... So now you need a double/triple redundant supply system, a set of valves at each light, sturdy pistons which extend/retract and have a light on top and sensors to monitor system status...
      Then it starts to freeze and you can't retract the lights for plows to move in because everything is frozen in place and operating it would likely damage the system...
      Cost: millions + a few maintenance workers to maintain a mechanical system...
      Pros: None besides 'sounds cool'...
      Cons: Cost, high maintenance, complex system likely to have break downs, retractable lights likely to be frozen over anyway...

    • @ninjanerdstudent6937
      @ninjanerdstudent6937 Рік тому +2

      You should design it, patent it, and be on Shark Tank.

  • @ImDrivingwalkingAround
    @ImDrivingwalkingAround 3 роки тому +3

    Awesome 👍

  • @RuiPlaneSpotter
    @RuiPlaneSpotter 3 роки тому +1

    Nice video!

  • @dagguhhp
    @dagguhhp 3 роки тому +2

    Yay

  • @blhornertube
    @blhornertube 2 роки тому +2

    60 lights a night what the heck, we lucky to get 1 maybe 2 a night

  • @agl3083
    @agl3083 2 роки тому +1

    Greetings to everyone from Atyrau International Airport !
    __ ✈️_🚦_ 🛩___ 🏢🏗🏡 __

  • @flix.306
    @flix.306 Рік тому

    i would be so easy to keep the light working, just drive with gps courses nearby the lights

  • @fergspan5727
    @fergspan5727 2 роки тому +1

    So the circuit needs to be turned off before even walking up to these lights

  • @ninjanerdstudent6937
    @ninjanerdstudent6937 Рік тому +1

    The plane has no Frangeables!

  • @southkorea0013
    @southkorea0013 3 роки тому +1

    Hi

  • @stiltzy1534
    @stiltzy1534 3 роки тому +6

    You don't have to do this.
    Don't go History Channel on us.

  • @Speciation
    @Speciation 2 роки тому

    Everyone knows wingtips shouldn't touch.

  • @nikaalavidze
    @nikaalavidze Рік тому

    why run 5000 v:D?

    • @someguy4915
      @someguy4915 Рік тому +1

      Because your 12VDC Christmas lights just won't cut it, also 12V or even 230V won't make it over such long distances without significant voltage drop.

  • @james-innes
    @james-innes Рік тому +5

    Jesus how do they even over produce something like this. All the movie music in the background and cuts just seems so silly and over the top.

    • @04smallmj
      @04smallmj Рік тому +3

      It's pretty standard for 'Murican TV shows. I think the US version of Kichen Nightmares is one of the worst. Sound effects on top of background music on top of background music...