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Frozen Pizza Party posted:
That is exactly the post-it I would use to gently caress with my coworkers.
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spankmeister posted:Wasn't Kai Tak the one where there was a checkerboard pattern on some mountain which signalled where pilots needed to start some blind turn? Wikipedia posted:With numerous skyscrapers and mountains located to the north and its only runway jutting out into Victoria Harbour, landings at the airport were dramatic to experience and technically demanding for pilots. The History Channel program Most Extreme Airports ranked it as the 6th most dangerous airport in the world. What are numbers 5 through 1?
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Frozen Pizza Party posted:
Everyone takes care not to lean against the window or anything and then the whole pane of glass falls inwards on some poor soul.
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Mak0rz posted:What are numbers 5 through 1? I'd imagine some combination of high altitude + short runways + mountains. There's some Nepalese airport that's stupidly dangerous.
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Recently on a construction site in town people were framing away on a bit of a windy day. It was windy but not mega windy. A guy was carrying a sheet of plywood and came around a corner where a much stronger than normal gust of wind that was funneled perfectly through the construction site to create an almost up-draft and sent up sailing up into the air and off the building, killing him. Everything was up to code and everyone was doing what they should be doing, just a really weird accident.
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Mak0rz posted:What are numbers 5 through 1? Google suggested #1 as Narsarsuaq Airport in Greenland. Constantly covered in thick ice and snow, huge wind shear, and an active volcano nearby spewing ash clouds.
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Alereon posted:Yeah this is totally a thing: IZ made up for that day being absurd.
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dragon enthusiast posted:I'm the car that decided the best course of action was to accelerate and pass under the truck Dude probably had to pry the gas pedal out the floor when he got home.
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wdarkk posted:I'd imagine some combination of high altitude + short runways + mountains. This is the nearest airport to Mt. Everest iirc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMiXZqEnSd0 St. Maarten, a tiny island in the Caribbean, barely has enough room for its runway so it goes right up to the beach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS8y89DHMTs St. Bart's is similar, but the runway is behind a hill so you have to lose a lot of altitude really fast (this guy had no chance of making it and had endless opportunities to go around) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Z1ie1OdzE Courchevel in France is where they filmed the James Bond bit where he drives a motorcycle off the cliff and catches the plane in midair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF2uS9WdxrY Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Feb 21, 2017 |
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Then there's Paro in Bhutan, where you have to fly between a bunch of mountains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmGy7qcDwQU
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:Ugh exposed rebar always makes my bootyhole cinch up Hi! 
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Looks like someone is setting up for a 15th trimester abortion.
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Mak0rz posted:What are numbers 5 through 1? some guy on an aviation forum posted:10. Lindburgh Field @ San Diego en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindbergh_Field This is according to the History Channel six years ago, should probably look for second opinions.
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Ak Gara posted:Hi! Jesus christ
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Sagebrush posted:Courchevel in France is where they filmed the James Bond bit where he drives a motorcycle off the cliff and catches the plane in midair The engine‐out procedure for that airstrip is “there’s a cleared hillside down the valley. Land up it and someone from the town will come bring you a new pair of pants.”
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Sagebrush posted:This is the nearest airport to Mt. Everest iirc There's a related video from a few years ago when that was apparently just a dirt strip.
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Those high mountain airstrips are even more dangerous than the cliff-drops alone would indicate. At high altitude, the air is thinner; at 15,000 feet (the peaks of the alps) it's literally half the density of the air at sea level. That gives you about half the lift and drastically reduces your engine power if you haven't got a forced-induction system. It takes longer to get into the air, and when you're up, a hard maneuver will more easily lead to a stall.
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Sagebrush posted:Those high mountain airstrips are even more dangerous than the cliff-drops alone would indicate. At high altitude, the air is thinner; at 15,000 feet (the peaks of the alps) it's literally half the density of the air at sea level. That gives you about half the lift and drastically reduces your engine power if you haven't got a forced-induction system. It takes longer to get into the air, and when you're up, a hard maneuver will more easily lead to a stall. Not to mention that all those mountains cause powerful and unpredictable winds.
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gently caress, for a second I thought someone had found some footage from this crash yesterday.
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I'm completely confused as to what his approach is. Have no idea what the city but is that normal there for general aviation? o_O
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Speaking of interesting runways, I did some work at the Nixon Fork Mine in Alaska, which had an interesting set-up. The runway is just under 1300m long, but it has a big hill at the end that you'll smack right into if you don't stop in time. That, combined with high cross winds and large planes have resulted in two Carviars, a DC-3,-4, and -6, and a CASA all having crashed up there.
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I don't know dick about aviation so it just looks like a kid breakin' laws
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Jesus Christ posted:I'm completely confused as to what his approach is. Have no idea what the city but is that normal there for general aviation? o_O That's probably normal for someone who is about to have their pilot license suspended, assuming they even have one.
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https://giant.gfycat.com/BlissfulAthleticAtlanticblackgoby.mp4 Harrison Ford lands in less than twelve parsecs.
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I'm usually pretty good at identifying cities from video clips but that ridiculously low approach is stumping me. I'm pretty sure it's not the US from the road markings. The only brand I can see on a store is "pintos". A lot the apartment towers seem to have external hallways which means it's probably a warmer climate. Something's giving me a mexico or south america or even Philippians vibe but I have no idea why. But I'm getting all OCD and need to know.
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Baronjutter posted:I'm usually pretty good at identifying cities from video clips but that ridiculously low approach is stumping me. I'm pretty sure it's not the US from the road markings. The only brand I can see on a store is "pintos". A lot the apartment towers seem to have external hallways which means it's probably a warmer climate. Something's giving me a mexico or south america or even Philippians vibe but I have no idea why. It’s Brazil. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Feb 22, 2017 |
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Feb 22, 2017 04:11
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Platystemon posted:Harrison Ford lands in less than twelve parsecs. That's all you needed. 
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Is that different than this? Cause this happened in Orange County, California http://m.tmz.com/#article/2017/02/16/harrison-ford-plane-landing-photo/
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`Nemesis posted:Is that different than this? Cause this happened in Orange County, California Baronjutter was talking about a different video.
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Platystemon posted:https://giant.gfycat.com/BlissfulAthleticAtlanticblackgoby.mp4 What the hell. Even from this angle I can tell it's a taxiway and not a runway.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:What the hell. Even from this angle I can tell it's a taxiway and not a runway. An air traffic control recording captured Ford asking “Was that airliner meant to be underneath me?”
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Platystemon posted:It’s Brazil. Oh goddamnit that's what I figured.
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Jesus Christ posted:Oh goddamnit that's what I figured. Heavenly name/post combo.
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Whaaaaaattt the gently caress
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Spiteski posted:Whaaaaaattt the gently caress I think they were huffing something. Project Plowshare question: did they ever try demolishing a mountain? If you threw a nuke at something solid and rocky, would it ablate a significant portion?
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