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Collateral Damage posted:There are firefighting planes based on 747 and other large airframes too. They're all heavily reinforced, not just to handle the weight of the water or the high G maneuvers, but also to handle the weight of the pilots' massive balls. drat, that was pretty surprising to see how much force that water comes down with. Obviously it would hit like a ton of bricks, but the temporary down burst of wind was pretty impressive, looked like it could have been 45+ mph. I wonder how much they have to pay attention to that to avoid spreading the fire inadvertently, or if that's even possible with that much water in the mix.
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DrGreatJob posted:drat, that was pretty surprising to see how much force that water comes down with. Obviously it would hit like a ton of bricks, but the temporary down burst of wind was pretty impressive, looked like it could have been 45+ mph. I wonder how much they have to pay attention to that to avoid spreading the fire inadvertently, or if that's even possible with that much water in the mix.
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DrGreatJob posted:drat, that was pretty surprising to see how much force that water comes down with. Obviously it would hit like a ton of bricks, but the temporary down burst of wind was pretty impressive, looked like it could have been 45+ mph. I wonder how much they have to pay attention to that to avoid spreading the fire inadvertently, or if that's even possible with that much water in the mix. The fire does a fine job generating its own wind to help it spread. They've clocked the winds at ground level around 60 mph. And while I wouldn't necessarily call them "tornados" wildfires do spawn some impressively scary cyclones that move across the ground very swiftly.
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Proteus Jones posted:The fire does a fine job generating its own wind to help it spread. They've clocked the winds at ground level around 60 mph. And while I wouldn't necessarily call them "tornados" wildfires do spawn some impressively scary cyclones that move across the ground very swiftly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqYEeivt8Eg NB: The night-time fire photography was taken at about 3 in the afternoon. When the sun was up. Edit 2: Come to think of it, there's plenty of OSHA here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IFEiwNMrZ8 IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 13:08 on Aug 14, 2017 |
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IPCRESS posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqYEeivt8Eg Well, poo poo. I stand corrected. They do get that large.
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I was really interested to see how much water was on the ground after this, but they didn't point the camera there. The big issue with wildfires in Australia is the branches, bark and leaves that the native trees drop, providing a massive fuel load at ground level. I don't think we've ever had that level of firefighting aircraft here, the biggest we've seen is Elvis.
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Memento posted:I was really interested to see how much water was on the ground after this, but they didn't point the camera there. The big issue with wildfires in Australia is the branches, bark and leaves that the native trees drop, providing a massive fuel load at ground level. I don't think we've ever had that level of firefighting aircraft here, the biggest we've seen is Elvis. The NSW RFS hire DC-10 and C-130s, as well as innumerable Air Tractor type fixed wing firebombers. Victoria does the same. Also the RFS and CFA is usually only too happy to put a knee in a sightseer's kidney then stick them in a passing ambulance as 'collapsed with a shortness of breath'.
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wdarkk posted:There's a couple walls. Someone found a google maps of the place pre-explosion and used that and the timing of the destruction to calculate the shockwave velocity. The conclusion was that the guy probably got gibbed.
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IPCRESS posted:Edit 2: Come to think of it, there's plenty of OSHA here: 
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DrGreatJob posted:drat, that was pretty surprising to see how much force that water comes down with. I'm minded of the video with the guys dumping a big digger shovelful of water onto a car 'hey look instant car wash lol!' and the sad remains of the car when the splash subsidies 
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IPCRESS posted:I'm not going to claim that an empty airliner will behave like a fighter pilot, but I think they'd surprise you. An empty airliner can loving move. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5_8D8HCnS4
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That one was full of people. Which is weird, because it was an airshow demo flight, but almost everyone survived.
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Isn't this the one that had falsified maintenance records and flight logs? Very OSHA indeed.
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Here's some more plane stuff that surely involved death. https://youtu.be/aNag8Clm_n8
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IPCRESS posted:I'm not going to claim that an empty airliner will behave like a fighter pilot, but I think they'd surprise you. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5c8mnf tl; dr: Former fighter pilots roll a DC-10 140 degrees and nosedives at nearly mach 1, to throw off a hijacker that had already smashed a baseball-sized hole in his skull. Everyone survives. 
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Isn't this the one that had falsified maintenance records and flight logs? Very OSHA indeed. Supposedly, the story was it was an Air America bird so a lot of stuff it did was off-record and hours weren't being properly accounted for. But (1) that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, even if you're flying classified missions you still need to keep accurate logs so you don't kill your own pilots and (2) it turned out to be a bunch of bullshit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Forest_Service_airtanker_scandal Sirotan posted:tl; dr: Former fighter pilots roll a DC-10 140 degrees This is probably the most famous airliner roll, where the 707's test pilot Tex Johnson did two barrel rolls in front of the crowd of airline executives invited to watch a demo flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vHiYA6Dmws When John Cashman was about to fly the 777 for the first time, Boeing's president told him "Good luck, John. And no rolls!" Phanatic fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Aug 14, 2017 |
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 Those AKs have folding metal stocks. They're jumpstarting the car MisterOblivious fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Aug 14, 2017 |
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Does it count as a good day or not in this case?
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Toast Museum posted:Does it count as a good day or not in this case? I understood that reference.
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As did I.
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Sirotan posted:http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5c8mnf I realize this makes me a horrible person, but I can't help but wonder... what happened to the packages?
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The crew of the Ryan Reynolds-starring superhero sequel was filming a motorcycle stunt at Jack Poole Plaza, near the downtown waterfront, when something went terribly wrong Monday morning. Witnesses told CTV News the stunt woman appeared to lose control of the motorcycle, which drove off set and crashed through a window pane across the street at Shaw Tower. She was loaded into an Advanced Life Support ambulance that remained on scene for about 45 minutes as anxious crew members and witnesses watched on. The vehicle eventually drove off without its lights or sirens activated. http://bc.ctvnews.ca/stunt-driver-dead-after-accident-on-deadpool-2-set-in-vancouver-1.3544943
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https://twitter.com/BrettKHOU/statu...genumber%3D5716 Stolen from the C-Spam Trump thread.
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Lime Tonics posted:The crew of the Ryan Reynolds-starring superhero sequel was filming a motorcycle stunt at Jack Poole Plaza, near the downtown waterfront, when something went terribly wrong Monday morning. The longer an ambulance stays on scene than better the outcome, usually. They haul rear end if someone ia about to kick it on scene.
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Grem posted:The longer an ambulance stays on scene than better the outcome, usually. They haul rear end if someone ia about to kick it on scene. No helmet apparently, front wheel on the bike is disintegrated. Chances are she was dead when they got there.
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Grem posted:The longer an ambulance stays on scene than better the outcome, usually. They haul rear end if someone ia about to kick it on scene. or the person is obviously dead
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Tumble posted:or the person is obviously dead "Injuries incompatible with life"
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Tumble posted:or the person is obviously dead I really badly implied my point.
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How many people is this now that have died for our Marvel movies? Like 5?
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Still lower than WB/DC Films.
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IPCRESS posted:Still lower than WB/DC Films. Dead careers dont count
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Near empty planes can do a lot of cool stuff as it van bring you deep inside of the flight envelop. One a plane dumps it's cargo it has massive extra thrust /energy which is the thing that lets you do things like rapid max rate of climb/angles not normally done that would exceed G limits otherwise. The DC-10 over the mountain can be thought of as flying an extremely steep landing approach with a go-around.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Express_Flight_705 A time a plane went too fast. (Because the pilot was trying to keep a man who'd just tried to kill the flight crew with a hammer off his feet.) It's also an episode of good podcast the dollop.
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