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| pianoguy | This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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Some hair-raising flying going on here - it almost makes you scared to fly.
The Windiest Airport in theWorld---Watch the wings flex and rudder deflection. The video was shot at Wellington International Airport in New Zealand. Cross-winds are obviously terrible, looks like they crab maybe as much as 60 to 70 degrees and often abort when the winds are even worse. Toward the end, the video taken from the cockpit and the copilot yelling "wave off - wave off" and sure enough they did: http://tinyurl.com/2xjvjx |
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Posted on: 2008/2/27 0:52
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| patsfan05488 | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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Scary stuff
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Posted on: 2008/2/27 1:00
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| CentralCoaster | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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Looks like fun tossing those birds around. They correct at the last second to keep from shearing the landing gear off.
I still think youre better off flying into new zealand than taking the bus though. |
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| RollaMo-LT4 | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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Holy crap!
If my wife were to watch that, you'd never get her on another airplane. To be honest, that would scare me too. Now, for any of you flying experts. I notice when they come in at an extreme angle, it looks as if the landing gear is actually turned to line up with the runway. Is that really what it's doing, or just an optical illusion? |
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Posted on: 2008/2/27 1:31
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| pianoguy | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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Looks like fun tossing those birds around. They correct at the last second to keep from shearing the landing gear off. It'd be a short bus for me - I think they float better :tongue: |
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Posted on: 2008/2/27 2:03
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| TommyT-Bone | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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Remember that flying is safer than driving. I'd like to see
the same thing with vehicle near misses. |
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Posted on: 2008/2/27 2:18
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| pianoguy | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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Remember that flying is safer than driving. I'd like to see I saw some pics of traffic in the Miami power outage today - drivers looked completely clueless. |
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Posted on: 2008/2/27 2:49
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| brut | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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This is what I would be doing:
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Posted on: 2008/2/27 3:53
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| CSS996 | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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That's what motorcycle racers call "Backing it in".
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Posted on: 2008/2/27 15:40
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| cuisinartvette | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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Yikes...I never had a problem with flying until my last trip to/from colorado. Ive never experienced turbulence like that in my life. Wont get on another one, Im a puzzy. :shaking:
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| CSS996 | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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I was just gonna say, I would not want to come into Denver or Colorado Springs from the west. Coming over the Rockies is pretty tricky, or so I hear...
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| cuisinartvette | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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I was just gonna say, I would not want to come into Denver or Colorado Springs from the west. Coming over the Rockies is pretty tricky, or so I hear... Yup, iit was over the rockies, some snow storm. I thgout those wings were gonna drop right off they were shaking so bad. I had visions of fairies holding up signs on the wing saying "Youre f'd" LOL . |
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| MK 82 | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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I have been flying airliners for 20 years and that scared me. Some pretty crappy techniques there. I am amazed the gear held up through some of those crab landings. A couple of them were nicely done.
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| MK 82 | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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Quote: That's their normal state! |
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| Lichen | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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Anyone recognize the band doing the background music?
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| CSS996 | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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Anyone recognize the band doing the background music? Nope. I read the name at the end. I did not recognize it. Somebody we should know? |
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| Woodstock | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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This will get you in the mood for take off
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| redvette6spd | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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I wonder if they have some sort of a privet closet or curtain for the passengers to pass through to pull there undies from there anus before they have to pick up there luggage.
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| smooth | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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I have been flying airliners for 20 years and that scared me. Some pretty crappy techniques there. I am amazed the gear held up through some of those crab landings. A couple of them were nicely done. If it were me, 9.9 out of 10 of those attempts would have been all right hand forward! Stick buried in my lap(singing soprano,Abort!, Sorry folks, we'll be landing in someplace less windy....like O'hare !! Jez thats scarry stuff! That on shot from the rear (on of the last 3 I think, that guy is crabbing at greater than 45 degrees to the runway and you can see him slam his right foot and kick the tail straight and nail it. Skill or luck!!? disaster avoided......With all of this video, no crashes? |
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Posted on: 2008/2/27 20:55
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| CasetheCorvetteman | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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Thats a lot of very old footage. At least one of those airlines no longer exsists and hasnt done for many years.
The song is Lambe an Dro by Matmatah, they are french. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBVanW04l74&feature=related |
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| CentralCoaster | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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Quote: I've seen the wing tips flap up and down 6 feet in really nasty turbulence. This one flexed 24 feet before failure... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzniIfyxim4&feature=related |
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Posted on: 2008/2/28 20:21
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| Woodstock | RE:This might make me decide to take the bus | ||
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This just happend last week in Hamburg/Germany.
The wing even touched the ground, close call. :angel7: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ddb_1204404185 |
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