As a Nor’easter heads towards the east coast just in time for the busiest travel solar day of the year , you ’re probably wondering how unfit it has to get before your woodworking plane gets grounded . Well , as a new National Geographic feature excuse , cipher that out is more an artistic creation than a science .
Suffice it to say , these decisions are made on a case - by - casing base . airplane are built to vaporize in pretty serious conditions , but it ’s the combining of bad conditions that keep planer from bring off . Planes can take flight in crosswind as gamy as 25 nautical mile , for instance , but if there ’s ice rink on the runway , that figure is much low . Snow ’s not a problem unless there ’s some serious accumulation . What plane ca n’t handle , NatGeo explains , is freezing rain . So , weirdly enough , you might just want to bid for flurries .
Head over to National Geographicfor the full in - depth flavour at what ’s keeping you found this workweek . [ National Geographic ]
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It ’s one of the busiest travel week of the year , so what better time to take a stuffy expression at how we get where we ’re going — and how we could be doing it well ? Check out more of Gizmodo’sAir Travel Week posts here .
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