Yeah the more wing you have the better you can glide- more or less. An airliner can glide a LOT better than an f-16. Helicopters can do what’s called an auto-rotation, the airflow over the blades creates lift and spins them- same principle as a gyrocopter- thus slowing descent. A parachute would be the only way this thing makes sense. I imagine it would be installed considering they’re not hard at all to put on a composite frame aircraft

Yeah the glide range of this thing would be abysmal, and the speed with which it would achieve best glide distance would probably make an emergency landing/ crash far less survivable. Perhaps it’ll come with a parachute system?

When you transfer a file from your hard drive to a USB, the computer copies it onto the USB and then either keeps or deletes the original on the hard drive…. Which is what we’re talking about here. So no, it wouldn’t be the same to you- just an outside observer.

Hypothetically, say we keep developing new antibiotics. Could a bacteria evolve resistance to all of them? Or would resisting one antibiotic make them vulnerable to a different one?