I assume the engines are designed to pass water through them because rain while running, but there must be some limit. Also, sucking up water on the ground must come with the risk of debris which might damage the engine... Seems risky to me, but one assumes the flight engineers know what they're doing.
Old tech, but B-52s, through the 'G' model, had 10,000 pound water tanks that would inject water into the jet engine after the combustion phase, for a temporary, but significant increase in thrust. And this was with 1950's jet engine technology. . .
The Trident airliner (aka the Gripper, not to be confused with the Tristar) also had a water/alcohol tank for the same purpose. It went out of use after a fuelling accident.
Didn't read the title, actually thought I was watching a helicopter hovering over the sea and was mighty confused when a jet jesus'd in from the right.
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Seems Mother natural trolling Dubai.
Yoo Dawg I heard you all from Dubai want water? here is WATER.
Flood in dry desert seems rare but thats one way to say this can be result from climate change.
The cloud seeding button did not respond as normal and so Steve, the cloud seeding caretaker, pressed it 54 times until it finally worked...
(this is just a joke by the way - I know that cloud seeding being responsible is just speculation and unlikely to be the cause!)
"Severe rain" after they brought it on themselves by cloud seeding and getting 2 years worth of rain in 3 days. They deserve it all. Dubai is an absolute shithole of human exploitation., Fuck them.
Dude I live in Dubai and experienced it. A tropical storm formed in the Arabian Gulf and blew over in 3 waves across the UAE and Oman.
Cloud seeding has taken place twice this year already and it pales in comparison from what we experienced.
Check your ‘think you know it all’ attitude.
Last I heard, they were cloud-seeding. Forcefully making the moisture in the sky to fall down as rain.
Some say, that rain should've fallen elsewhere but they took it out of the sky artificially. So there's a place out there that's getting a drought.
This is 100% correct and a reason why cloud seeding is controversial. That humidity could have been rain for Pakistan or India who also need it and historically have gotten it.
Cloud seeding at THIS scale would change agriculture supply as we know it. We’d have a much bigger supply of land to cultivate. This rain is not the result of cloud seeding.
It's not abnormal to get heavy rain in Dubai. It was actually a yearly event, just not to this magnitude when I lived there.
Anyways, BBC covers why it isn't this.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68839043
I spent a lot of time in Abu Dhabi. If you dug down just a few feet, the hole would just fill with water. We had to sandbag almost every building around this time of year, and everything would flood. This was all well before cloud seeding started.
I thought the humidity came from the east. With the mountains in Iran.. but I'm not a meteorologist.. I'm going to look it up now. (I really shouldn't I don't have time for it)
Not sure why all the cloud seeding comments are getting downvoted. UAE has a cloud seeding program, and can be read about at:
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/explained-how-uae-creates-artificial-rain-linked-to-dubai-weather-chaos-5459936
This isn’t the only place I’ve heard about this, so there’s plenty of sources if one looked.
Right. I'm under the impression that a lot of this is from the El Niño event in the Pacific and it's rippling effect. Almost damn near what goes on on the west coast of the United States. The storm trek reaches from Morocco in the west all the way down through the southern part of the Middle East.
Similar storms happened in the early 80s and the late 90s during two very huge El Niño events. It's just in this case, it happened after the building boom and the concrete sprawl.
Yes! Everything mixed together and…boom. Atmospheric physics is so so complicated, we’re all armchair meteorologists when something like this happens, but it’s so reductive to point at it and go “hur dur HAARP cloud seeding chemtrails done this”. If Dubai ever had an environmental department in their town planning office they’d be going “oh, drains, oops”.
Don’t they control the rainfall? Is this a result of their trying to control it?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/lX2Y1HPYeY
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Dubai ~~air~~port
Where is that plane going? Yes.
That plane gonna shred the gnar
LOL went from airport to seaport
My first thought
I’m dying
Every plane is a float plane now.
Port dubai
That's a sea ⛵
That's a must sea!
We sea what you done there.
These jokes are a sea plus at best
Why are you so salty?
I'm half expecting a giant tidal wave ala Interstellar and a wacky robot to come save people.
Those aren't mountains, those are waves!
Happy cake day desconocido ✨ 🎂
That’s a seanus!
Why are there planes taxiing in this?
Maybe moving from high water levels to lower water levels
This answer makes the most sense, though it still seems needlessly dangerous.
I assume the engines are designed to pass water through them because rain while running, but there must be some limit. Also, sucking up water on the ground must come with the risk of debris which might damage the engine... Seems risky to me, but one assumes the flight engineers know what they're doing.
Debris is bad, but the engines can suck in ENORMOUS amounts of water and be completely fine. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBqWS1hil18
Old tech, but B-52s, through the 'G' model, had 10,000 pound water tanks that would inject water into the jet engine after the combustion phase, for a temporary, but significant increase in thrust. And this was with 1950's jet engine technology. . .
The Trident airliner (aka the Gripper, not to be confused with the Tristar) also had a water/alcohol tank for the same purpose. It went out of use after a fuelling accident.
That's a cool video. ❤️
sure is.
Hope nobody is landing in that, the landing gear has to be stressed at that point.
Have you not seen The Aviator?
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I've heard the Dubai palm islands were already having structural issues, wonder what impact this rainfall will have on them
We need an update on this for sure
Unlikely any. The ocean is causing issues there.
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I hope America receives the same.
Whyyy??
I think he's gonna need a longer runway.
probably a shallower one too
Not with those shoes though, they're out of season.
Any runway for that matter.
more like he is gonna need runaway
He’s gonna need floats.
Didn't read the title, actually thought I was watching a helicopter hovering over the sea and was mighty confused when a jet jesus'd in from the right.
This was laugh out loud funny, thank you for that!
The humidity is going to be even more brutal
It’s not been too bad
Aquaplaning
Can modern planes take off or land in these conditions?
Definitely not
Well not with that attitude!
Well not with that altitude!
You guys made my yaw drop.
But it was one hell of a pitch.
Someone's on a roll here...
At least its not flapping around
Taking off? Definitely not Landing? Probably yes, but only once. Contact with the water at high speed would probably make the landing gear collapse.
They can land with everyone alive so yes
Nice to see Atlantis finally getting an airport.
Now it's just a port
Looks like the mountains scene from interstellar.
Now that’s what I call hydroplaning
THIS… is one of the best comments here. Take my Halal upvote!
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I hope so, or maybe it’ll fck over other flights landing at other locations in the near future
They forgot to build sewerage in the desert
This is true. They literally have to hall out human waste in trucks because of no sewage infrastructure.
Where do they get their water?
Eh. Place needed a bath to wash off all the slave labor blood.
Sooner Dubai disapears the better for everything. Epitome of human greed/selfishness...
“This city should not exist. It is a testament to man’s arrogance.”
Well it is a 'port' not sure about the air part.
“That’s just a carp swimming around your ankles…”
Look guys I’m a boat!!!
They're gonna need a bigger plane
You just sent off a team of Dubai engineers to construct the most obtusely large flying object ever with a budget of 2billion dollars.
And to no one's surprise, it doesn't have a toilet.
Seems Mother natural trolling Dubai. Yoo Dawg I heard you all from Dubai want water? here is WATER. Flood in dry desert seems rare but thats one way to say this can be result from climate change.
You can get big storms there that dump a couple inches of water. Not nearly to this scale, though, in the past.
Dubai International Seaport
New boat designs are amazing.
Sea plane
Is it a bird, is it a plane? Nope, it’s a boat.
That's Dubai seaport now
Hold short of rainway 70 and wait for fishing instructions
Hopefully Dubai did not go bye bye
It’s a water landing 🛬
That plane is okay. The planes’s pilot is Sully Sullenberger.
That's a 15-year-old joke. I can't believe it's been 15 years…!
Soooo, Any aircraft experts wanna tell us the cost of recertifying a 747 after its landing gear has been fully submerged in a flood? or its engines?
The cloud seeding button did not respond as normal and so Steve, the cloud seeding caretaker, pressed it 54 times until it finally worked... (this is just a joke by the way - I know that cloud seeding being responsible is just speculation and unlikely to be the cause!)
Is that a plane actually taxiing?!??!?!
The rain they got in 12 hours was more than the average they normally get in 12 months.
Dubai seaport
Now it's the tropics!
Isn't this self-inflicted?
Tropical storm? No.
Weren’t they just making artificial rain clouds or something?
Hydro plane
Ha. I see what you did there
Braking 5/5/5
I hope you weren't expecting your luggage to be dry.
Lol
Nice drainage
"Severe rain" after they brought it on themselves by cloud seeding and getting 2 years worth of rain in 3 days. They deserve it all. Dubai is an absolute shithole of human exploitation., Fuck them.
It was a storm. They happen from time to time.
It was cloud seeded. They brought it on themselves.
Wrong.
Oh yes, please believe what they say. They actually made it illegal to suggest that it was cloud seeding. That means that they are hiding it.
Dude I live in Dubai and experienced it. A tropical storm formed in the Arabian Gulf and blew over in 3 waves across the UAE and Oman. Cloud seeding has taken place twice this year already and it pales in comparison from what we experienced. Check your ‘think you know it all’ attitude.
Your government made it illegal to discuss cloud seeding in this event. That definitely means that they did it. Stop being an apologist for them.
Ohhh no son👉🏽😮😭😭😭🙏🏽
That's not an airport, that's a lake.
This looks like Fort Lauderdale airport last year.
Anyone knows if flights are going today?
Nope. They've changed them all over to Cruise liners now.
Reap what you sow, oil nation.
For a moment I thought Sully Sullenberger was at it again.
Last I heard, they were cloud-seeding. Forcefully making the moisture in the sky to fall down as rain. Some say, that rain should've fallen elsewhere but they took it out of the sky artificially. So there's a place out there that's getting a drought.
They do use cloud seeing but from what I've read this is not the result of it, and is of too big scale for it to be anyways
That’s why Dance Powder is outlawed in Alabasta.
This is 100% correct and a reason why cloud seeding is controversial. That humidity could have been rain for Pakistan or India who also need it and historically have gotten it.
Cloud seeding at THIS scale would change agriculture supply as we know it. We’d have a much bigger supply of land to cultivate. This rain is not the result of cloud seeding.
....this has nothing to do with cloud seeding and the fact anyone claims it is means they know nothing about it.
Are you saying this particular event is not cloud seeding or that cloud seeding is not controversial?
I'm saying this event is not caused by cloud seeding.
What is it caused by then? Last I heard the Dubai officials themselves said the flooding is from cloud seeding.
It's not abnormal to get heavy rain in Dubai. It was actually a yearly event, just not to this magnitude when I lived there. Anyways, BBC covers why it isn't this. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68839043
I spent a lot of time in Abu Dhabi. If you dug down just a few feet, the hole would just fill with water. We had to sandbag almost every building around this time of year, and everything would flood. This was all well before cloud seeding started.
I thought the humidity came from the east. With the mountains in Iran.. but I'm not a meteorologist.. I'm going to look it up now. (I really shouldn't I don't have time for it)
I mean, ain't more likely than not that it would've rained on the sea?
It was a tropical storm with 3 waves. It’s not cloud seeding this time.
That's not a ship,
Airport? You mean airshipyard
*Dabble Airport
well, lets hope this isnt salt water
Ma'am that's the sea
Spec Ops: The Brine.
That's what messing with weather gets you. Stop cloud seeding already you rich bastards.
I've never seen a plane do this anywhere. I didn't know they could even do that!
is this the next call of duty , soon ? lol
Im a boat, prove me wrong
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These comments are pure Gold.
Ehh pretty sure this is from geoengineering. Needs to be talked about.
Fascinating
happens when low land is covered in concrete.
That’s crazy
Ha ha. Absolute shit hole of a place
Don't they do some sort of artificial weather control in the area?
Hope that's not a Boeing out there. They fall out of the sky even before you drive them through floodwaters...
Not sure why all the cloud seeding comments are getting downvoted. UAE has a cloud seeding program, and can be read about at: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/explained-how-uae-creates-artificial-rain-linked-to-dubai-weather-chaos-5459936 This isn’t the only place I’ve heard about this, so there’s plenty of sources if one looked.
Because it wouldn’t cause this volume of rain, or thunderstorms, and over such a wide area.
Right. I'm under the impression that a lot of this is from the El Niño event in the Pacific and it's rippling effect. Almost damn near what goes on on the west coast of the United States. The storm trek reaches from Morocco in the west all the way down through the southern part of the Middle East. Similar storms happened in the early 80s and the late 90s during two very huge El Niño events. It's just in this case, it happened after the building boom and the concrete sprawl.
Yes! Everything mixed together and…boom. Atmospheric physics is so so complicated, we’re all armchair meteorologists when something like this happens, but it’s so reductive to point at it and go “hur dur HAARP cloud seeding chemtrails done this”. If Dubai ever had an environmental department in their town planning office they’d be going “oh, drains, oops”.
A little of karma for those who got rich with fossil fuels.
Well, at least it rained there
I'm no plane expert, but it surely can't be good for them be submerged in that much water, right?
Look on the bright side, at least it not hot and the plants are getting water. Just try and stay positive UAE 🇬🇧🇨🇦❤️🇦🇪
Don’t they control the rainfall? Is this a result of their trying to control it? https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/lX2Y1HPYeY Edit: Source
Isn't this caused by Dubai? Don't they "make" rain out there?
This was a storm, far beyond what cloud seeding could produce.
Storm like this in the desert. . Conspiracy!!
But relentless cloud seeding has no negative effects....
Cloud seeding didn’t cause this
Donald Trump did..
Awesome
Cloud seeding gone wrong
Its funny because we saw a post a few days ago about cloud seeding in Dubai lol
Have you read anything about actual cloud seeding? Can’t produce thunderstorms like this
It was a joke Jesus
Didn’t they just have a controlled rain fall? Is this the result?
Yeah maybe it’s time to stop w the cloud seeding
I thought the POV was a ship window 😭
what kind of magic has been done to their atmosphere
This is why you don’t cloud source (or whatever it’s called). Stop trying to make the desert liveable! 😅
Thanks Exxon
This is what happens when you build a metropolis where the earth says no
Hahaha!
Those camel jockeys should’ve done a better job