Revolution

Deborah Puette

Dalton E. Gray

Britton Sear

Billy Burke

Tracy Spiridakos

Giancarlo Esposito

Zak Orth

David Lyons

Elizabeth Mitchell

JD Pardo

Stephen Collins

Daniella Alonso

Why "the wingtip and tail lights on the crashing planes were still on while they were crashing"?

The in story explanation is that whatever happened caused systems to fail over the course of several seconds. Some failed before others. Modern airplane controls are electronic so the rudder and flap control would have been lost along with the shutdown of the jet engines but there is no good explanation why every jet would enter a flat spin instead of just diving at high rates of speed. Pilots on one of their discussion forums claim it is hard to put an airliner into a flat spin so having all of them perform the maneuver would not have occured.But not all modern aircraft would go into a dive. 737's would revert to manual reversion. If would make the aircraft very difficult to land but it could be done.The real reason that the lighting was still on is that television is a visual medium and it's much more visually effective to allow the characters to look around and see the lights flickering out than it is to have them all just suddenly go out for no reason.

Why isn't there diesel, steam, or other non-electric technology? Why aren't there bicycles?

Not every technological ramification of the Blackout will be shown immediately, but we do see across the first season that some of these technologies do still exist. There's at least one working steam train in the Monroe Republic and bicycle are in use in some urban areas for transportation. Diesel is used to power electric engines, so just as gas powered engines do not work, neither does diesel engines.There are some diesels that will start without glow plugs, but they are larger industrial engines. But, even so, getting such an engine started in cold weather would be very difficult as hand cranking would not be easy to accomplish.

Why is the "Google" guy still fat even after 15 years of natural food and the way of life which cannot allow overeating and supposes a lot of hard physical work?

While obesity rates have increased in the modern era, and particularly among wealthier nations, obesity is by no means dependent on a modern consumer society. There have always been obese people and will always be obese people.