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Which airport is more cringe? Round 1

LAS Las Vegas Harry Reid International Airport vs. DFW Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

LAS

DFW

Remaining time: 6 days 22 hours

Previous Opponents

LAS: MSP

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Which airport is more cringe? Round 1

ORD Chicago O'Hare International Airport vs. DXB Dubai International Airport

ORD

DXB

Remaining time: 6 days 19 hours

Previous Opponents

DXB: DEN

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Which airport is more cringe? Round 1

LTN London Luton Aiport vs. EWR Newark Liberty International Airport

LTN

EWR

Remaining time: 6 days 12 hours

Previous Opponents

LTN: CLT

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woah! the planes r trans and lesbian?

Cool 😎

Yup, every single one.

Did you go to riddle lol

Nope, went somewhere else.

Do you have recommendations for learning to distinguish between different commercial airliners? I've been looking for a chart or something but haven't had any luck so I'm still only able to tell some of the more obvious ones apart 😔

I had some trouble with that myself until I started working at an airport and seeing them every day.

One of the most obvious things to look for is the number and placement of the engines, though most new airliners since the '80s have had two wing-mounted engines, so that isn't always helpful. Some of the other features to looks for are number of wheels, shape of nose, cockpit windows, and tailcone, the arrangement of exit doors, and the winglets.

For example

The A320 (left) has side cockpit windows that slope down a bit, but then the rearmost window is flat on the bottom. On the 737 (right) both windows slope down and join at a point. The cockpit window design is pretty standardized across most Airbusses and Boeings (excepting the A350 and 787). The A320 Also has a rounder nose, smaller winglets (newer versions have bigger ones though), and a tailcone that extends behind the stabilizers. The 737 has a pointier nose, often but not always has scimitar winglets that extend downwards, and has a tailcone that's almost flush with the stabilizers (though on the MAX it extends back more).

If I made a writeup like this for every common airliner we'd be here all day, but those are the sorts of features I generally look for.

For the specific variant, often a good clue is the exit doors.

The A319 has one overwing exit per side, the A320 has two, and the A321 forgoes overwing exits and instead has four full-sized doors.

With some planes though the variants don't have such a clear difference and it sometimes comes down to just looking at reference images and counting windows.

Which airport is more cringe? Round 1

LAX Los Angeles International Airport vs. IAD Washington Dulles International Airport

LAX

IAD

Remaining time: 6 days 9 hours

Previous Opponents

IAD: CDG

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Which airport is more epic? Round 1

YYZ Toronto Pearson International Airport vs. SFO San Francisco International Airport

YYZ

SFO

Remaining time: 5 days 19 hours

Previous Opponents

YYZ: DFW

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Where did you learn all about planes? They seem so interesting, but I don’t know where to find stuff out about them.

Well when I was younger a lot of my initial knowledge was just various odds and ends picked up from educational books, playing MS flight simulator, TV documentaries, Wikipedia, etc. Later I got a college degree in aviation, earned my pilot's license, and had a couple of jobs working at an airport.

Obviously some of those have a bit of a barrier to entry, so for more accessible resources I'd honestly just recommend Wikipedia and Youtube. If you want to go a bit more in depth into the kinds of things pilots learn, the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge is available for free online.

And if you have specific questions, you could always ask me or @tfemflightinstructor

Which airport is more cringe? Round 1