Best Airplane (and Helicopter) Landings and Take Offs
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"Twenty-two year-old flight instructor Kyle Davis was about two minutes into what was meant to be a 15 minute flight over central Florida from Winter Haven to Lakeland when the engine on his homebuilt SkyRanger airplane conked out. After two failed restarts and ruling out a field and a lake as landing options, Davis decided to put his plane down on Havendale Boulevard, avoiding light poles and trees, and, more amazingly, cars. Davis had his videographer friend Joe Surowiec along for the ride, giving us this video from two cameras he had mounted on board"-Matt Molnar
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Edit: Adding another vid seeing as no one has commented yet.Matt Molnar wrote:The airport in Hamburg, Germany was getting pounded by a violent wind storm when Lufthansa Flight 44 approached from Munich on March 1st, 2008. Despite air-traffic controllers offering the option of landing on Runway 33, which would have put the plane more favorably parallel with the 60 mph gusts, the crew decided to use their first choice of Runway 23, which is equipped with better instrument-landing equipment but was more susceptible to crosswinds, which could blow the plane out of line with the runway. Sure enough, as soon as the main landing gear of the Airbus A320 touched the pavement, a strong gust tossed the plane to the left, actually blowing the left wing tip into the ground. Thankfully, the crew made a split-second recovery and pulled the plane back into the sky, circling around for a safe landing, on the less treacherous Runway 33, without any injuries to the 131 passengers and five crew.
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Second, I'm opening this thread to include take offs as well. Both can be very difficult at times.
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It looks to me like it may be an AL-3, w/ floats
I think it's cool too how the recording makes the prop blades appear to be boomerang shaped when rotating. I wonder, is that an artifact of it being
a digital recordings, or does some film do that too?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_shutterNavyGator wrote:I think it's cool too how the recording makes the prop blades appear to be boomerang shaped when rotating. I wonder, is that an artifact of it being
a digital recordings, or does some film do that too?
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To add to the discussion:
Dear old dad that, when we were up at KI Sawyer AFB, said they could get their whole alert bomber and tanker forces off the ground in six minutes flat from the first to the last takeoff.
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So in other words you had a weekend holiday there?halberdier25 wrote:I spent much of my adolescent years living there. Had my first kiss there, lost my virginity there, got tear gassed for the first time there, watched my first murder there, climbed my first mountains (taller than McKinley) there, blew up my first propane tank there, shot my first RPG there, learned how to clear a house SWAT style there, took my first shot of alcohol there, went to my first party with sex, drugs and alcohol there, hunted my first non-deer animal there, drove a car for the first time there, rode in First Class for the first time there, met a president of a country for the first time there, dated my first daughter-of-a-president-of-a-country there, lived through anarchy for the first time there, and it adds some color to the board. I'm back in the States now.
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