Alan was talking about planes having a sun roof. They did actually do that to 1 of the Corcordes for a 1 off flight. Not really a sun roof, more of a couple of portholes in the roof. It was for a once in a lifetime event where the only airliner in the world at the time could keep up with the earths rotation, during the longest total solar eclipse ever in 1973 across Africa. It literally flew directly under the path of the Solar eclipse as it crossed North Africa. All sorts of special permissions were required for the flight and they miraculously got granted and it was allowed to take place. This gave them over 70 minutes of observation time apposed to the 7 minutes us ground dwellers had. I mean what a thing to be a part of and to have been on that flight!
Need a Best of Alan upsetting the Germans again with his French, Spanish, board European accent that always ends up sounding German and killing everything.
Between Aisling’s twisted ideas and Alan’s singular phrasing is sublime comedy. That phrase is epithet worthy in obscure incongruent humor. Or in layman’s terms; feckin hysterical!
"All of the birds died in 1986 due to Reagan killing them and replacing them with spies. The birds work for the bourgeoise. Don't..." I'm sorry, it immediately came into my head and I can't get rid of it!
I didn’t know who Corey Taylor or Slipknot/Stone Sour were; what does this olde hag know of heavy metal?!! As a panelist, Corey was a delightful booking; he’s intelligent, erudite, and has a lovely sense of humor. He should be asked back more often. I had to re-think my opinions of metal/grunge musicians and had to take back some of my less-than-flattering past comments.
Ukie Hag Amazing that you were able to rethink and change your mind!! I’m a music nerd so I go to a lot of concerts to see pop/rock/metal/rap artists and metal fans have definitely been the most kind and inviting community. Metal artists are also very considerate of their fans but get a bad rep probably due to the ‘aggressiveness’ of the music.
To fly farther, the goal is to reduce drag. One of the biggest components of drag in aircraft is called vortex drag, and is caused by high pressure below the wing spilling around the wingtip and onto the low pressure side on top of the wing. When the wing is a round cylinder shape like that shown here, there is literally no wingtip, and so the design does not suffer from vortex drag.
Indeed it was. I had to google him , as i had no idea who he was. No i am not making fun of him / you / anyone. No i do not live under a rock / anyones basement. Yes, i do know who he is.......NOW:)
You can see what it was if you stop the video, then advance it frame by frame using the fullstop/period key. The 'comma' key runs the video backwards frame by frame.
The thing about the piston effect is that the redesign of the front of the Shinkansen was only a small part. Another of the innovations made was the inclusion of a canopy with slits cut into it at the front and rear of railway tunnels. This effectively disperses the wall of air that the train produces when it enters a tunnel.
I just want to say that you are my new internet hero for the day. I've heard this song a million times, and again yesterday watching a rerun of Big Fat Quiz. Like an obsession, I spent two hours trying to find it because I couldn't remember the name...utterly fruitless. Drove me to distraction. Then today I hear it on this video and pop into the comments, hoping against hope that someone might have made mention of it and that I might find a clue as to its name. Lo, and behold!!!!! Thanks!!
I'm marathoning these videos, with the sole desire to make the last bit play out longer, so Sandi has to sit there and drink coffee ALL DAY. She's gonna be shittin' a river by the time I'm done! BWAHAHAHA!!!
Would have got further if they had just scrunched the paper into a ball and chucked it. Edit: I paused and typed my comment about 2 secs before DM said exactly the same thing.
About the brace position, straight from Wikipedia: _There have been myths surrounding the use of the brace procedure. One is that adopting the brace posture is only useful for preserving dental integrity for identification after a crash; another myth is that the position is designed to increase the chance of death to reduce insurance-paid medical cost. These myths have been debunked with evidence that the brace position "does indeed work to preserve lives in an air disaster."_
Also, the brace position was developed from the results of the Kegworth Air Disaster (where the plane crashed into the M1), so really as Brits we should know best about this myth!
They made a few round paper æroplanes when I was at the RCA Dome (inflated roof) in Indianapolis. From the upper deck you just held it up and let the air currents take it down.
There's another equally impressive true 'water landing' in 1963 of an Aeroflot Tupolev in the USSR caused by fuel starvation/nose gear failing to deploy. The pilots managed to land on the Neva river right next to a late-1800s tug boat, who, apon noticing the commotion, broke the cockpit windsheild & towed the plane to shore, a short distance away. All aboard survived, didnt even need to evacuate & were able to depart with luggage in tow. Quite the feat, esp given the time & country!
In the brace position, you aren't really supposed to put your head between your legs but against the seat in front of you (or whatever your head is about to crash into), so it hits it at the minimum speed.
Yes must have meant Bill Bailey, Dara O’Brien, Jo Brand, Ross Noble and Rhod Gilbert were all busy that week or he just needed the money as that’s the only reason anyone does QI
The whistle has always baffled/confused me - Most, if not all rescues on land and at sea are performed by helicopters. The crew of helicopters wear ear defenders, plus headphones. So why provide something that no rescuer is ever going to hear.
I'm assuming it's for if an individual is in trouble/got separated from the rest of the group. If someone is struggling with their life jacket and needs immediate attention, or if they're obscured by a wave or being pulled away by a current, other passengers may be able to help or point them out to the rescuers.
Another reason you have to keep window blinds up during takeoff and landing is because thats when emergencey issues are most common so in the case of a bird strike/ Debris hitting the wing The pilots can't see much of the wijg from the cockpit so therefore window bl8nds are kept open during takeoff and landing so in the case of a bird strike or debris strike flight attendants can easily see out into the engines or onto the wings
I’m fairly sure the tunnel/train part is at least partially wrong. The boom when entering/exiting a tunnel was also a problem in Germany (an ICE2 unit is shown) but the ICE3 units, which go faster, don’t have Shinkansen-esque noses. Instead, tunnel entrances (at least in Europe) have been modified along high speed routes to have openings that allow the air to disperse without making a boom.
Switzerland has some ICEs with the pointy noses, but most with fairly flat noses. Never heard a boom, they're generally very quiet so I suppose we use a similar vent system. The reason the ICE to Milano has such a pointy nose, now that I think about it, might be because Italy's tunnels don't have those vents.
3:15 Yeah sex is good but have you ever experienced the buzz of excitement you get from knowing something that Sandi or Steven asks on QI that none of the contestants do
I don't understand how they hadn't figured out a pointed train would be better than a flat one by the time the shinkansen was introduced. First, it's just common sense, and second, hadn't they already been making other vehicles with the same principle for years?
If they want the blinds up on the way down, then why when I was flying with Cathay Pacific did they want them down while we were cruising mid flight at night?
Just guessing that the flight would eventually be entering daylight and they didn't want to wake all the sleeping passengers - not at all once, anyway.
2:15 I don't know if it's just Alan being a prodigy, but the only entertaining thing during that entire segment was him and sandy. The other guests seem a bit bored like
Didn't expect to see Corey Taylor just chilling there 🤣🤘
Seriously. Had to do a double take.
Oh that's who that was! I did wonder. Bloody hell
Okk good is him.... Neither did I.
Same here
Is that really him?
You should make a compilation of guests getting the answer right by accident
ilovestreetlamps Yes Please, QI admin have a look.
Yes! Such as the Jo Brand jactitator clip
czcams.com/video/FLknojNhVNg/video.html
Sandi’s guess at the origin of chainsaws and Phil (?)’s guess at corn flakes origin come to mind
Harambae it was Jonny Vegas - good shout - one of the best moments of QI :D
Oh yes
9:11 Love this bit and how Jimmy piggybacks on Alan’s premise. The light whimsy of Alan and the diabolical wit of Jimmy mesh surprisingly well.
Alan was talking about planes having a sun roof.
They did actually do that to 1 of the Corcordes for a 1 off flight. Not really a sun roof, more of a couple of portholes in the roof.
It was for a once in a lifetime event where the only airliner in the world at the time could keep up with the earths rotation, during the longest total solar eclipse ever in 1973 across Africa.
It literally flew directly under the path of the Solar eclipse as it crossed North Africa. All sorts of special permissions were required for the flight and they miraculously got granted and it was allowed to take place. This gave them over 70 minutes of observation time apposed to the 7 minutes us ground dwellers had.
I mean what a thing to be a part of and to have been on that flight!
Need a Best of Alan upsetting the Germans again with his French, Spanish, board European accent that always ends up sounding German and killing everything.
UND VWERE IS YOUR LICENSE?
we germans dont get upset about things like that anymore.. we're kinda used to it by now /:=)
VERE IS YOUR LICENSE?!
Phil jupitus doing accents on here is the best
@@NomadUniverse FIVE MARKS- YOU SHALL BE 0 0 0 THWEE
The engines are working. ✔
The trains are making no sound. ✔
....Kill The Birds!
Wasn't Alan's joke - doesn't feel just that the woman didn't get more recognition for that one. But Alan made it hilarious.
Corey taylors epic grin was the best bit
Between Aisling’s twisted ideas and Alan’s singular phrasing is sublime comedy. That phrase is epithet worthy in obscure incongruent humor. Or in layman’s terms; feckin hysterical!
@@hvidtsted
It's why Allan's there...he's great at riffing off of others.
"All of the birds died in 1986 due to Reagan killing them and replacing them with spies. The birds work for the bourgeoise. Don't..."
I'm sorry, it immediately came into my head and I can't get rid of it!
Corey Taylor??? 😮
Yup! He's a big fan of QI. He was also a guest on the QI podcast No Such Thing as a Fish.
Yep Noisey Nosey was the Episode.
He was great fun on the episode he was in, would definitely like to see him return.
I didn’t know who Corey Taylor or Slipknot/Stone Sour were; what does this olde hag know of heavy metal?!! As a panelist, Corey was a delightful booking; he’s intelligent, erudite, and has a lovely sense of humor. He should be asked back more often. I had to re-think my opinions of metal/grunge musicians and had to take back some of my less-than-flattering past comments.
Ukie Hag Amazing that you were able to rethink and change your mind!! I’m a music nerd so I go to a lot of concerts to see pop/rock/metal/rap artists and metal fans have definitely been the most kind and inviting community. Metal artists are also very considerate of their fans but get a bad rep probably due to the ‘aggressiveness’ of the music.
I'm glad this aeroplane compilation included the flightless aeroplane breeds too.
Still blows my mind Corey Taylor was a guest. My two worlds colliding.
i was shocked i need to find that episode NOW
Wish Ed Gamble could have been there.
Corey Taylor?!!!! 🤘🤘
RATS!! I missed that episode! 😭😭
Can't stop re-watching the bird bit. Alan is amazing
Thanks to Qi for being such a super program when I started improving my English and when I studied English language.
I just wish they had subtitles, sometimes the accents are too difficult
Lol you still have a long way to go
Love the fact they used Left Bank 2 when they were making the paper planes. That and Stephen's voice just instantly made me remember Little Big Planet
Aisling losing her composure at 4:48 is precious!
So the best paper plane is a paper turbine engine? Neat.
One HUGE move away from a major and possibly even deadly Papercut.
To fly farther, the goal is to reduce drag. One of the biggest components of drag in aircraft is called vortex drag, and is caused by high pressure below the wing spilling around the wingtip and onto the low pressure side on top of the wing. When the wing is a round cylinder shape like that shown here, there is literally no wingtip, and so the design does not suffer from vortex drag.
Paper scramjet next, then.
It's just one big endless wing without vortex drag.
@@thokim84An "endless wing without vortex drag" sounds like something I'd actually travel to London to see.
phew I was beginning to run out of QI videos to watch
Or serval repeats daily on DAVE
Eric Burkheimer yea well how are we to know if you don’t make it clear In your comments
@@CricketEngland you live in Judea m9, how are you going to watch it?
Here is link for R series episode 1czcams.com/video/pkQdxTrR4Tc/video.html
Wow. Never thought I'd see Corey Taylor on QI.. now THAT is quite interesting...
Indeed it was. I had to google him , as i had no idea who he was. No i am not making fun of him / you / anyone. No i do not live under a rock / anyones basement. Yes, i do know who he is.......NOW:)
It is missing Bill Bailey replying to Stephen's pilot food question "Now why do I say lunches?" to which he replies: BECAUSE THERE IS MORE THAN ONE
I was expecting that as well!
1:56 one of my favourite QI moments of all time
What the sketchy heck was that at the end of Sandi's outro?
I'm guessing this is the first Sandi QI video you have ever watched!
@@malahammer I've never seen that either. But I normally skip ahead, so maybe I've just missed it.
Paul Furey no there’s like a frame glitch in the last 0.2 seconds of the whole clip
You can see what it was if you stop the video, then advance it frame by frame using the fullstop/period key.
The 'comma' key runs the video backwards frame by frame.
Editor dumped some trimmings at the end of the timeline and forgot to remove them
I knew the last clip would be included. Another Mitchell classic.
I never knew he was a stone collector, so to speak, back in the day
The thing about the piston effect is that the redesign of the front of the Shinkansen was only a small part. Another of the innovations made was the inclusion of a canopy with slits cut into it at the front and rear of railway tunnels. This effectively disperses the wall of air that the train produces when it enters a tunnel.
2:01 king Alan makes his decree
5:13 Holy shit, that's that one song that's in LittleBigPlanet! The nostalgia!
Woah! You're right! Stephan fry happens to be here as well😂
The song itself is called Left Bank Two, in case you wanna look it up at a later date
@@romankaplan666 thank you! I've heard this song randomly crop up throughout my life and never knew what it was or if it was from something.
I just want to say that you are my new internet hero for the day.
I've heard this song a million times, and again yesterday watching a rerun of Big Fat Quiz. Like an obsession, I spent two hours trying to find it because I couldn't remember the name...utterly fruitless. Drove me to distraction.
Then today I hear it on this video and pop into the comments, hoping against hope that someone might have made mention of it and that I might find a clue as to its name.
Lo, and behold!!!!!
Thanks!!
From Blue Peter you mean!
Edit: Oops, not Blue Peter, SMart.
Sandie really is excellent isnt she. Credit to the BBC, it must have been very difficult to find someone to follow on from Stephen.
I was just thinking that. I thought Stephen was perfect but Sandie is just as brilliant
I love the joy she gets over facts. Its like a kid receiving a gift
..and paying her less than half what they paid Stephen.
@@aussiechris5904why should a new starter get paid the same as someone who's been employed for 13yrs?
@@RichO1701ebecause she does the same work?
A massive guffaw from me, thanks!
You'd think they'd just finish the job and put a kingfisher on the nose of the train.
Yep it would sort out the noise AND kill all the birds at the same time! 😂
Less than 300k subscribers... alot missing out on this comedy gold
Alan is proof that comedy is both timing and execution
You want to execute Alan?
@@waynemarvin5661 😂. Good one. Exactly my point
@@waynemarvin5661 been looking for the "kill the birds" clip for over a year now. Your comment helped me find it again. So thanks alot
I'm marathoning these videos, with the sole desire to make the last bit play out longer, so Sandi has to sit there and drink coffee ALL DAY. She's gonna be shittin' a river by the time I'm done! BWAHAHAHA!!!
Would have got further if they had just scrunched the paper into a ball and chucked it.
Edit: I paused and typed my comment about 2 secs before DM said exactly the same thing.
But that’s not a paper plane/dart it’s just a scrunched up piece of paper
Great talk gentlemen...
I used to make circular planes for students when I substitute taught. It was always great fun.
Is that Corey Taylor?!
Yes
Waiting for a squeal of delight from Sam from Wendover (Wendover Productions/Half As Interesting)....
About the brace position, straight from Wikipedia: _There have been myths surrounding the use of the brace procedure. One is that adopting the brace posture is only useful for preserving dental integrity for identification after a crash; another myth is that the position is designed to increase the chance of death to reduce insurance-paid medical cost. These myths have been debunked with evidence that the brace position "does indeed work to preserve lives in an air disaster."_
It's so your head doesn't have time to pick up speed before it smashes into the seat in front of you.
Isn't the dental records thing from fight club?
@@owenhughes5781 no no. In fight club he says the oxygen mask is to make you high so you forget you're dying.
Also, the brace position was developed from the results of the Kegworth Air Disaster (where the plane crashed into the M1), so really as Brits we should know best about this myth!
@@owenhughes5781 well that's the first rule broken!
Wunderbar
Yoooo I did not expect Corey Taylor to be there!
“Kill the birds!” Alan is a Golgafrinchan
I don't know why, but the way he said that was absolutely hilarious! 😄
Love that they always use Muji pens and notebooks
They made a few round paper æroplanes when I was at the RCA Dome (inflated roof) in Indianapolis. From the upper deck you just held it up and let the air currents take it down.
David Mitchell also stars in the BBC series Upstart Crow as Shakespeare.
8:50: Scully - 'Hold my beer'
There's another equally impressive true 'water landing' in 1963 of an Aeroflot Tupolev in the USSR caused by fuel starvation/nose gear failing to deploy. The pilots managed to land on the Neva river right next to a late-1800s tug boat, who, apon noticing the commotion, broke the cockpit windsheild & towed the plane to shore, a short distance away. All aboard survived, didnt even need to evacuate & were able to depart with luggage in tow. Quite the feat, esp given the time & country!
In the brace position, you aren't really supposed to put your head between your legs but against the seat in front of you (or whatever your head is about to crash into), so it hits it at the minimum speed.
And I don't ever recall being asked for the name of my dentist at check-in. :)
Quality video Ft. Corey Taylor!
Yes must have meant Bill Bailey, Dara O’Brien, Jo Brand, Ross Noble and Rhod Gilbert were all busy that week or he just needed the money as that’s the only reason anyone does QI
The whistle has always baffled/confused me - Most, if not all rescues on land and at sea are performed by helicopters. The crew of helicopters wear ear defenders, plus headphones. So why provide something that no rescuer is ever going to hear.
Karina Bailey passing boats. Or if you were to crash in the Hudson
I'm assuming it's for if an individual is in trouble/got separated from the rest of the group. If someone is struggling with their life jacket and needs immediate attention, or if they're obscured by a wave or being pulled away by a current, other passengers may be able to help or point them out to the rescuers.
The plane has rafts. It is possible for you to end up not on the raft. If you're not on the raft, you want to end up on the raft.
@@forgottenfamily indeed
If you all crash into the sea at night, you may need a way to locate each other in the dark
massive jaw drop. when the hell was Corey on the show?
2:00 is just so perfect it's unreal
Is alan davies a national treasure yet?
I'll watch this.. but I refuse to put my chair in an upright position.
Another reason you have to keep window blinds up during takeoff and landing is because thats when emergencey issues are most common so in the case of a bird strike/ Debris hitting the wing
The pilots can't see much of the wijg from the cockpit so therefore window bl8nds are kept open during takeoff and landing so in the case of a bird strike or debris strike flight attendants can easily see out into the engines or onto the wings
That was half as interesting
5:14 little big planet flashback
After watching many of these episodes, I've come to the conclusion that Alan is in fact the host of QI
There WAS a plane with a sunroof, but it kept breaking in half at it. Any guesses which country had it, Alan?
I must try the 'flying tube plane' with a golf hole cup when I get the chance.
I’m fairly sure the tunnel/train part is at least partially wrong. The boom when entering/exiting a tunnel was also a problem in Germany (an ICE2 unit is shown) but the ICE3 units, which go faster, don’t have Shinkansen-esque noses. Instead, tunnel entrances (at least in Europe) have been modified along high speed routes to have openings that allow the air to disperse without making a boom.
The benefit of the Japanese solution is the 15% increase in the trains' efficiency.
Switzerland has some ICEs with the pointy noses, but most with fairly flat noses. Never heard a boom, they're generally very quiet so I suppose we use a similar vent system. The reason the ICE to Milano has such a pointy nose, now that I think about it, might be because Italy's tunnels don't have those vents.
We have made a mind blowing discovery about aerodynamics! *Make it pointy!*
Holy shit Corey Taylor on QI😲
8:30 I swear Ricky Gervais has a joke exactly like that in Humanity
COREY TAYLOR WENT ON QI?! WHAT
Aisling Bea is beautiful and funny.
@QI
These videos will benefit greatly from subtitles! Still missing.
“Everyone gets a different joke!”
7:32 Alan would not like Mark Rober
Ricky Gervais has a bit on the whistle blowing after a plane crash that sounds a lot like what David and jimmy were talking about
Was that Corey Taylor?!!! How the hell did I miss that?
Been looking for that "kill the birds" joke for a year now. Finally found
Forgot that Corey Taylor was on QI 😂😂
Falcons have baffles
How. Did. I. Not. Know. That. Corey. Taylor. Was. On. QI?
In Dutch kingfishers are called, ijvogels translated icebirds
Is that the dude from Slipknot? :o
ye, corey taylor
also the front for stone sour
Only single appearance of QI
I find it ironic that music that was used in a game Stephen Fry narrated was used during the paper airplane section
The plane whose take-off was delayed... I'm surprised that no-one mentioned lemon-scented paper napkins... :D
3:15
Yeah sex is good but have you ever experienced the buzz of excitement you get from knowing something that Sandi or Steven asks on QI that none of the contestants do
They had Corey Taylor on?
Evolution: Can't breathe at high speed? Nope. Try this. Can't breathe? Nope. Try this. Can breathe? That's got it! The rest, die off now, we got this.
Steven Fry and that song, QI referencing Little Big Planet???
Oh fuck that's what it was! I knew I recognized it, but I couldn't place it....
It’s much more likely to be a reference to Tony Hart’s art programs. (As indeed is the usage of it in LBP.)
David Mitchell has seen Dave Allen skit about plane travel.
Does anyone know which episode the clip at 1:56 is from?????
Sory hoooooooooold on, which episode was Corey Taylor on?? I don't remember that at all!
Noisey Nosey.
The holes are vents so they Don't smash
There so needs to be a soundproof box for babies on planes...
their bloody siren is
I don't understand how they hadn't figured out a pointed train would be better than a flat one by the time the shinkansen was introduced. First, it's just common sense, and second, hadn't they already been making other vehicles with the same principle for years?
The original shinkansen was conventionally streamlined back in the 1960s. The more recent versions have the bird inspired noses.
That's a mean David Bowie tattoo
As if Corey Taylor was on an episode of QI 😂
He's a fan. They invited him on, and he was good too.
If they want the blinds up on the way down, then why when I was flying with Cathay Pacific did they want them down while we were cruising mid flight at night?
Just guessing that the flight would eventually be entering daylight and they didn't want to wake all the sleeping passengers - not at all once, anyway.
Gremlins.
Hi
"The engines are working, the train is making no sound; kill the birds!"
Alan being a german fascist is hilarious everytime "kill ze birds!"
I thought he was being a French fascist.
I have become a big fan of Jimmy Carr. He's quick.
Well, SOFIA does have a sunroof. For its telescope. In the plane.
Ducks feet need a question of their own?
COREY TAYLOR ?!?!
Do these birds draw a commission, of course they don’t
2:15 I don't know if it's just Alan being a prodigy, but the only entertaining thing during that entire segment was him and sandy.
The other guests seem a bit bored like
The one on the far right sounded bored because she knew it was the wrong answer,
is that corey taylor?