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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2frjSvo9BBc Bird strike. The mighty 757 maintains V2 and climbs out on one engine. These guys don't even lower the nose a smidge.
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bisticles posted:Amazing. Really interesting to see how difficult it appeared to bring the thing to a stop when only one engine is available for reverse thrust. It looks like they had the thing cranked to the left when they touched down. You can google RTO procedures where they get the plane at max weight to takeoff speed and then use ONLY the brakes to stop. That is "difficult" to stop (the brakes will catch fire, tires explode, etc - but the plane has to be able to sit/taxi for 5 minutes without having a major fire), this plane could have stopped faster - but the pilot knew once they were on the ground there was no real danger - just wanted to stop the plane nice and easy - knowing it would be best to taxi clear of the runway as well.
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Nov 11, 2009 01:27
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azflyboy posted:Actually, the brakes shouldn't catch fire, and aircraft tires really don't blow up. I know that the brakes (which are carbon, metal, etc) do not literally catch on fire. But there would very likely have been small fires at the wheels if it was truly a STOP AS FAST AS POSSIBLE kind of thing. It wasn't. It was not a huge deal and there was no reason to try to stop SO fast. And yeah, explode was a hyperbole. As soon as they lose pressure though, they end up shredding to bits (usually still attached though).
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Nov 11, 2009 04:15
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grover posted:Sort of like if you were driving the car at 60mph on the highway with a trunk full of luggage? If you luggage consists of many hundreds of pounds of steel bolted to the floor, then yes. When they test these walls, the cars are over-max weight by a LOT. There is a video of a VW T3 disintegrating and we later find out it had some ungodly amount of steel welded into the bed.
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Nov 14, 2009 19:16
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PurpleFender posted:I guess it's some kind of hillbilly style prerunner? AFAIK a 'prerunner' is a 2wd truck that goes off roading. Probably wrong, but there it is. Prerunners are traditionally the slightly-less modified trucks that would run courses to scout before the race trucks (most of which are 4x2 themselves).
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Hypnolobster posted:It would have been okay if he hadn't been pulling high and being pulled low. The truck in front kept the nose down and all the force just found the middle of the frame. Yeah, he shouldn't have done a couple of things: 1. Pulled down the front of the truck 2. Used the boom 3. Bought a (most likely) 1/2 or (at best) 3/4 ton truck to make a tow truck
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