Royal W posted:

Good on the pilot for riding it out though.
"I got this. I got this *CRASH*
... I got this."

poptart_fairy posted:

So, uh, how do they handle pilot reprimands in that situation? Grats son you just cost your country half a billion dollars.

ekuNNN posted:

Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:

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KillHour posted:

I just managed to take a dip in the hot tub - with the company iPhone in my pocket.

On one hand, I hope my boss (the owner of the company) doesn't read his email this late since I don't want to ruin his Friday night. On the other hand, I want him to reply back to me so I can stop freaking out about it.

The Orange Mage posted:

Who the hell intentionally gets into water wearing things with pockets? (swimming trunks with pockets don't count for this purpose)

Blue Footed Booby posted:

Yeah, I've read about pilots ejecting at the last possible second because they stuck with the plane to guide it away from a crowd, a house, whatever. Playing chicken with a planet is a level of ballsy I could never, ever be.

Palpek posted:

A bus driver boiling his passengers by attempting to drive through a geyser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRAqIXZkH7Y

Powershift posted:

The bus driver is still less of an rear end in a top hat than whoever filmed it

edit: with the crumbling soviet infrastructure, and russia's love for dashcams, expect to see more of this stuff. In a lot of cities there, every building is heated by hot water piped throughout the city.

Nipponophile posted:

But no pilot wants to look like these guys who ejected just before the last possible second...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=122_1308793725

thespaceinvader posted:

If they HADN'T ejected, could their extra weight have caused what they were afraid of happening, to happen?

Evilreaver posted:

Ejecting isn't even very safe, and it's EXTREMELY uncomfortable, to the point that you end up several inches shorter and can have a bunch of broken bones. I mean, it beats dying in a horrible explosive fireball, but not by a large amount.

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That is a TAV-8B assigned to VMAT-203 in Cherry Point. They experienced hung landing gear (repeat gripe on that jet) and contacted base for troubleshooting. The EP involves cycling some circuit breakers, cycling the gear, and requesting visual inspection. If none of that works (which it didn't), you blow down the gear.

At some point, the squadron let the MAG CO know what was going on (for what reason, I have no idea). He was worried that if they blew the gear down and the nose gear still hung up, it would crack the frame of one of the scarce T-birds. He directed that the pilot do a gear up vertical landing. It would crush the strakes and probably FOD the motor, but it's better than cracking the frame. He directed the mattresses to be placed under the nose.

When the pilot heard about all of this, he refused to do it unless he heard it directly from the MAG CO. The MAG CO got on the radio and told him to do it. The landing was pretty unremarkable, despite the photos. The damage was limited to the engine (Fodded), and the strakes (crushed). Expensive, but not the end of the world. When they jacked it up, they we able to blow the gear down with no problems.

This is when the story gets even weirder. Once the jet was in the hangar, relatively undamaged, an EZ-go golf cart came flying into the hangar and smashed into the jet, causing some D-level repair damage.

It turns out that LCpl. Schmuckatelli was huffing keyboard cleaner before making his parts run in the EZ-go. He got really dizzy, lost consciousness, and the cart went out of control. It drove directly into the hangar at full speed through a gap in the hangar doors and smashed the jet. Like I said, the truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. You couldn't make up something that bizarre.

DNova posted:

The bus driver ran out of the bus without opening the passenger doors.

Powershift posted:

Well, then let's call it a wash.

Kruller posted:

They were a bunch of dirty commies, after all.

Centripetal Horse posted:

That looks like an A-6 Intruder. The Intruder has an empty weight in the neighborhood of 25,000 lbs and a maximum takeoff weight [MTOW] of something like 55,000 lbs. Those two guys probably weigh in at 350ish pounds. The margin didn't look anywhere near that narrow, to me. I am going to say, "no."

Edit: There's also the weight of the seats to be considered, but that's offset by the fact that I checked, and the A-6 actually has a takeoff weight of over 60,000 pounds.

C.M. Kruger posted:

Speaking of Harrier fuckups:

ekuNNN posted:

Three-Phase posted:

They had mattresses ready for such an incident?!

AzureSkys posted:

It could have potentially had an effect because it was landing and likely notably lower in weight than it was at MTOW. Also, it's not so much weight that affects it, but the center of gravity change. The further away a weight is from the CG, the more it can affect changes (weight x arm = moment). A sudden loss of (a guess) ~700lbs of the pilots, seats, canopy, etc at the forward side of the plane would shift the CG aft a good bit. Coupled with the reduction in weight, the plane would find it much easier to fly up.

No idea what all was working in this incident, though, and whether or not it was still flyable.

Nipponophile posted:

But no pilot wants to look like these guys who ejected just before the last possible second...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=122_1308793725

C.M. Kruger posted:

Speaking of Harrier fuckups:

Phanatic posted:

The best part of that is that fodding out the engine like that is a ridiculously more expensive repair than if he'd just gently belly-landed it. The guy who came up with the idea for the mattresses was a fuckwit.

6675636b20796f75 posted:

Did they not essentially belly land it but at a much slower velocity? Also, the repair may have been expensive but it sounds like they were trying to avoid total airframe loss, which would be much more expensive.

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A prestigious bullfighting event in Spain ended in a very unusual way—with a knockout victory for the bulls. The first bull of the evening at Madrid's Las Ventas stadium badly gored bullfighter David Mora in the leg, tossed him in the air, and pummeled him into the ground, reports the Telegraph. The evening's second bull injured the knee of the next bullfighter and gored the thigh and hip of a third, forcing organizers of the San Isidro bullfighting festival to call off the event for the first time since 1979.

Mora suffered the worst injuries (including a severed femoral artery) of the three bullfighters and the 33-year-old is now in a serious but no longer life-threatening condition after blood transfusions and two hours of surgery, the BBC reports. The other two bullfighters suffered less serious injuries. Some 2,000 bullfights are still held in Spain every year but the numbers are falling—and in 2010, Catalonia became the first region in mainland Spain to ban the tradition.

Elendil004 posted:

Ok now avatar sized?

Palpek posted:

"A man paid hundreds of dollars to go on an "e-date" with a World of Warcraft streamer and then complained about the friend zone and cried at the end of the date."

Already skipped to the most relevant part:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r71l-ajiuHA&t=1783s

Although the part where they "dance" at 28:00 is also "great".

Phanatic posted:

The Harrier's got an emergency system of pressurized nitrogen to blow the gear down in the event of an emergency where they won't extend on their own, and that's actually the written procedure (NATOPS) for what to do in that situation, but the pilot was ordered not to do it and instead to land his plane on a bunch of metal springs; the MAG CO had apparently seen this procedure used with a CH-53, but that's an enormously and obviously different aircraft. The fact that the downdraft of a vertically-descending Harrier would, you know, blow the mattresses around right by its enormous engine intakes, was entirely foreseeable by anyone with a clue. And the only reason that stack of mattresses didn't catch on fire could be termed "luck." The guy who decided NATOPS was wrong shouldn't be an O-6 anymore, and I don't think he is; this was hashed over in one of the SA aviation threads.

Palpek posted:

"A man paid hundreds of dollars to go on an "e-date" with a World of Warcraft streamer and then complained about the friend zone and cried at the end of the date."

Already skipped to the most relevant part:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r71l-ajiuHA&t=1783s

Although the part where they "dance" at 28:00 is also "great".

Palpek posted:

"A man paid hundreds of dollars to go on an "e-date" with a World of Warcraft streamer and then complained about the friend zone and cried at the end of the date."

Already skipped to the most relevant part:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r71l-ajiuHA&t=1783s

Although the part where they "dance" at 28:00 is also "great".

Kennel posted:

Jerry Cotton posted:

I don't see it?