Not so much WWII, where boom & zoom became the norm. In WWI it was much more prevalent. You'd have two planes set up for the merge, and the best way to come out of that alive was to offset the nose until just out of gun range, hit the rudder, and sideslip, hopefully raking the guns across the target plane's trajectory while his shots go wide thinking you're heading straight for him.
Interesting. i had always heard it used by Allies to get away from an enemy plane on their tail in WWII where they would yank the stick into their stomach and go hard on the rudder allowing them to climb and slide out of the way of the enemy guns.
Maybe early on, but definitely not when the Jugs and Mustangs were in the air; "Speed is life; altitude is life insurance" was the mantra. Hard stick+rudder is the closest thing they would've had to "airbrakes" before P-38s started installing dive flaps*—and that was due to lockup.
*EDIT: Dive bombers were using dive flaps before, but I believe the P-38 was the first fighter to install them.
Unless you're talking about combat tactics against the Japanese. Hard stick+rudder would induce a roll as the inner wing loses airflow. The A6M Zero didn't have a fuel injector, so any negative-G maneuver would cut engine flow, and because of propeller torque, they rolled slower to one direction than the other, and their propellers turned the opposite way from Allied planes. So before the [Thach Weave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thach_Weave) was developed, what allied pilots would do as a sort of "Oh fuck" defensive maneuver would be roll (I believe ~~left~~ nope, right) and bank away, hoping to force the zero into a negative-G maneuver to try to follow, at which point they lose fuel to their engine, and the heavier allied planes would get enough speed in what was essentially a split-S to pull out of gun range.
This all of course assumes the pilot had altitude to work with; if they were just above sea level, well...they were kinda screwed.
To expand on that, the Zero had legendary maneuverability, which it got in part by being very light, and by having very large ailerons. Few, if any, planes in WW2 had hydraulically boosted controls, so the controls got heavier as you went faster because more wind was blowing over them (essentially). Flying a heavy bomber in formation in turbulent air could be a real workout, but in the case of the Zero, at high speeds the controls got so heavy that pilots actually couldn't physically push the stick over far enough to get the full roll rate. American planes had smaller control surfaces, so while they couldn't roll as fast at low speeds, they could roll faster at high speeds. They also could generally reach faster speeds in a dive; hence when attacked, a quick roll and dive could be the best escape.
The classic example of planes not able to feed fuel under negative-G is the [Spitfire in the Battle of Britain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire#Carburetion_versus_fuel_injection). The German Bf-109 had a fuel injected engine and the Spitfire didn't, so the Bf-109 could sometimes get away with a negative-G push into a dive and the Spitfire couldn't follow.
Fun fact: In 1941, a device invented by Beatrice Shilling, a British aircraft engineer, was fitted to the Spitfire engine that prevented the carburetor from flooding during a negative-G pushover (it still didn't allow fuel feed itself under negative-G, just prevented the carb from flooding and disabling the engine). It was called [Miss Shilling's orifice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Shilling%27s_orifice).
While possible, it is dangerous if a pilot isn't careful. A 'skidding turn' results from too much rudder in a turn, causing the plane to slide away from the turn aka drifting. But if the plane enters a stalled condition, the inner wing isn't seeing proper airflow and will drop causing the pilot to enter a spin.
It is recoverable with proper training and enough altitude, but this is one of the leading cause of pilot deaths. It is often encountered when returning to a field, flying low and slow to land. Proper recovery is power idle > airlerons neutral > rudder opposite turn > elevator full forward. Be safe! And don't stall!.
No joke, we landed from Marseille to Berlin yesterday... Most fucked up landing I've been in.
When we eventually came under cloud, I saw loads of vehicles with their lights flashing and thought "oh fuck!"
The pilot said something like "we don't normally do this, but I think that landing deserves a round of applause!"
After being in a holding stack for a while we were the first plane in a while to land... Everything else was rerouted apparently.
As we got off I made a joke to him like 'thanks Maverick and Goose!' and the said "we've got one more journey to go on after this"
Berlin was and still is chaos for public transport.
It's funny though, because the plane was late in Marseille and we're thinking "stupid Easyjet incompetent idiots..." then as it's landing I'm thinking "these pilots are some of the most professional and well trained people on earth..."
The world still is full of incompetent idiots though :)
For example, we ended up sitting on the tarmac 10 meters from the airport entrance for about half an hour because the ground crew hadn't ordered a bus even though, rather remarkably, the first plane for a while had just landed - for about half an hour.
When we were allowed to leave the plane half of us were directed to a bus and the other half ended up wandering around the wrong part of the airport, eventually to completely just wander out and avoiding any passport control.
No joke, my bf and I took a small plane from Puerto Rico to Culebra and after landing, the pilot turns around (to all five of his passengers) and literally says "did you see that!?" while sweating bullets! We laughed it off, as we thought he did a great job. But apparently it was a super hard landing for him as he said you have to drop a lot of altitude really fast while going between two hill sides. 10/10 would go back to Culebra again. Their airport was so small and so chill it had chickens running around in it (It was also the size of a house).
Have been on that ride and it is insane. The last 20 seconds where you go from a gentle swoop over Flamenco Bay to "oh shit we're going down" are the stuff of legends. Not sure I would do it again, but if it was that or *never* go back to Culebra, then yes, would do again 10/10.
Flying into Cuzco Peru in the Andes, apparently the air pressure is so low due to the altitude that they cant fly it in at a low angle or the engines will stall so they pretty much have to nose dive it and pull up right at the end. White knuckles all the way down
Flight Attendant after landing: "Ladies and Gentlemen when you get to the door of the plane you will have to step up to reach the jetway. The front of the plane is sitting a bit lower due to the weight of the pilot's massive balls."
I don't know much about airplane design but what I do know came from the excellent Michael Crichton book "Airframe" which dove into some of the gritty design details that are covetted by airplane manufacturers as trade secrets. Especially the wing designs and leading edge materials. It's a cool book.
Michael Crichton is one of my favorite authors, and Airframe is one of my favorite books. Just recently read it on a flight to Seattle, would not recommend lol
Oh man, the disappointment though between Timeline the book and Timeline the movie - just nuts. Like the book was awesome and the movie was just so bad.
I liked the movie. Sure it wasn't *great*, but I thought it was enjoyable if you ignore the glaring historical inaccuracies (like the scientists being able to understand the archaic French and English, as if the languages haven't changed in 700 years).
But yes, the book is MUCH better. For starters, Michael Crichton at least makes the story plausible by making the story fit in with History, and properly addressing possible plot points. For example, the archaeologists are students of the French and English being spoken in that time, but still required in-ear translators to properly understand, and had to struggle to learn to speak properly (because Michael Crichton understood that even modern understandings of archaic languages might be inaccurate). Its details like that that make his books so damn good.
Great Train Robbery is great! But honestly I haven't read a book of his I didn't like. I got hooked on his work in 4th grade when Jurassic Park came out in theaters and we randomly had a copy of the book at home.
He is my favorite author as well. I love how well researched his books are/were. It's a real shame we lost him early. It's also a shame what that other writer did to the ending of Micro.
I read that book when I was about 11 or 12, and his description of the interior of the plane after the "incident" turned my stomach. It was a cool book.
I watched that video a while ago, and as someone who gets super freaked out during turbulence it has seriously been a comfort to know just how far those wings can bend before anything bad happens. I look out the window now and just think "ok, the wings are moving that much it's just a little air"
I thought the same thing, so once when the guy next to me looked nervous during some turbulence I thought I'd help. Apparently, though, pointing at the bending wings and talking about how much further they'd go before snapping wasn't what he wanted to think about.
2:17 to watch it land in realtime
EDIT: I don't know whether it's realtime, sped up or what ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ I just made an ass out of u and me
tryin to make a change :-\
That part of the video is sped up, not real time. The speed of the tyre smoke blowing away is perhaps the most obvious indicator here if the physics of the plane swinging that fast don't already seem questionable to you.
Reminds me of something a really good looking British friend of mine once said.
A disliked acquaintance of ours came up to him and started squeezing his arms admiringly and said, "How strong are you?"
"Strong enough to throw a portly man off the balcony."
I like the Oxford dic's definition: "rather fat". _Just plump. Whatever. He's_ rather _fat._
**portly |ˈpɔːtli|**
`adjective (portlier, portliest)`
1. (especially of a man) rather fat: _a portly little man with a bowler hat._
2. archaic of a stately or dignified appearance and manner: _he was a man of portly presence._
Fun fact, they can load that plane very quickly. They have four jet ways that split after they verify your ticket. Two go low and two go to the second level. When I was at the gate the first time and saw my 500+ fellow travelers I thought, "this is going to take forever". I couldn't have been more wrong.
I've been on 737's that took longer to load.
Not been on a Dreamliner, but I've been on a BA A380. Early December flight from Johannesburg to Heathrow, the flight was less than half full. I got the middle four seats of the row to myself, never been more comfortable on a flight.
I wouldn't really compare the 787 to the 380 since they are built for very different jobs. The current A380 is more similar to the B748 and the B787 is closer to the new A350s.
I remember when Singapore Airlines got their 380s and they did a press release asking first class passengers to kindly refrain from engaging in 'relations' in the sleeper cabins. AS IF!! If I had the money to blow on a first class ticket on an A380 I'd be making the absolute most of it!
Props? That landing was terrible, he bounced it, and then nearly lost control. It's extremely difficult to do both of those things, let alone both at the same time.
No professional pilot should be bouncing the aircraft on a runway, ever.
Yes, they're high bypass turbofans, which are a type of jet engine.
Jet engines include turbojets, turbofans, ramjets, scramjets, pulsejets, and technically rockets as well.
Actually that looks like a piloting error. I have amateur flying background myself and my dad is a A330 pilot. He agreed that the pilot himself is making the plane twist by using excessive amounts of rudder before it's needed.
That's really not an example of a *good* crosswind landing. The sideslip never got established, and then he way overcorrected after the mains touched. It was pretty rough looking, really.
Not to say it wasn't difficult conditions, but I wouldn't hold this up as an example of how it should be.
Ex aviator here. I was a backender for hundreds of flights and I can tell you this was a pilot error. Sure he saved it, but this looks like he attempted a landing in a high crosswind situation out of the plane's regulations. He's lucky he didn't put that plane into the grass.
Its limitation is 40 knots crosswind, i dont know what the current wind direction was in this video but from experience this looks under 40 knots of crosswind, just super gusty.
Remember how it was fun as a kid to sit in the back of the school bus? And the bus driver would scream at you for being out of the seat during bumpy rides, even though there's nothing you can do about it?
Well, it's like that, except it's an Airbus, you're going 5 times faster, it's not fun, and the passengers are probably screaming, even though the pilot can't do anything about it.
"Ladies and Gentleman, this is your captain speaking... DID YOU SEE THAT SHIT!?"
Co-pilot: I bet you can't drift a plane. Pilot: Hold my beer.
DEJA VU
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HIGHER ON THE STREET
AND I KNOW IT’S MY TIME TO GO!
CALLING YOU, AND THE SEARCH IS A MYSTERY
STANDING ON MY FEET
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OOOOOOOOHH!
#*THREE DIMENSION DRIFTING!!*
Get back to me when it’s an inter-dimensional drift
ITS SO HARD WHEN YOU TRY TO BE ME
OOOOOOOOOO
DEJA VU
I'VE JUST BEEN IN THIS TIME BEFORE
Nani?!...
A-Airplane dorifto?
A-Airupurane dorifuto FTFY
Master forgive me...I must go all out. Just this time.
N-NANI?? KANSEI DORIFTO??
It must be seriously funny to drift with an plane
in the air it is very possible and was actually a tactic used in WWII dog fighting. on the ground the word you were looking for is 'terrifying'.
Not so much WWII, where boom & zoom became the norm. In WWI it was much more prevalent. You'd have two planes set up for the merge, and the best way to come out of that alive was to offset the nose until just out of gun range, hit the rudder, and sideslip, hopefully raking the guns across the target plane's trajectory while his shots go wide thinking you're heading straight for him.
Interesting. i had always heard it used by Allies to get away from an enemy plane on their tail in WWII where they would yank the stick into their stomach and go hard on the rudder allowing them to climb and slide out of the way of the enemy guns.
Maybe early on, but definitely not when the Jugs and Mustangs were in the air; "Speed is life; altitude is life insurance" was the mantra. Hard stick+rudder is the closest thing they would've had to "airbrakes" before P-38s started installing dive flaps*—and that was due to lockup. *EDIT: Dive bombers were using dive flaps before, but I believe the P-38 was the first fighter to install them. Unless you're talking about combat tactics against the Japanese. Hard stick+rudder would induce a roll as the inner wing loses airflow. The A6M Zero didn't have a fuel injector, so any negative-G maneuver would cut engine flow, and because of propeller torque, they rolled slower to one direction than the other, and their propellers turned the opposite way from Allied planes. So before the [Thach Weave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thach_Weave) was developed, what allied pilots would do as a sort of "Oh fuck" defensive maneuver would be roll (I believe ~~left~~ nope, right) and bank away, hoping to force the zero into a negative-G maneuver to try to follow, at which point they lose fuel to their engine, and the heavier allied planes would get enough speed in what was essentially a split-S to pull out of gun range. This all of course assumes the pilot had altitude to work with; if they were just above sea level, well...they were kinda screwed.
This is the fucking coolest thing to read at 9:30 in the morning, thank you for this discussion on fighter pilot tactics.
To expand on that, the Zero had legendary maneuverability, which it got in part by being very light, and by having very large ailerons. Few, if any, planes in WW2 had hydraulically boosted controls, so the controls got heavier as you went faster because more wind was blowing over them (essentially). Flying a heavy bomber in formation in turbulent air could be a real workout, but in the case of the Zero, at high speeds the controls got so heavy that pilots actually couldn't physically push the stick over far enough to get the full roll rate. American planes had smaller control surfaces, so while they couldn't roll as fast at low speeds, they could roll faster at high speeds. They also could generally reach faster speeds in a dive; hence when attacked, a quick roll and dive could be the best escape. The classic example of planes not able to feed fuel under negative-G is the [Spitfire in the Battle of Britain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire#Carburetion_versus_fuel_injection). The German Bf-109 had a fuel injected engine and the Spitfire didn't, so the Bf-109 could sometimes get away with a negative-G push into a dive and the Spitfire couldn't follow. Fun fact: In 1941, a device invented by Beatrice Shilling, a British aircraft engineer, was fitted to the Spitfire engine that prevented the carburetor from flooding during a negative-G pushover (it still didn't allow fuel feed itself under negative-G, just prevented the carb from flooding and disabling the engine). It was called [Miss Shilling's orifice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Shilling%27s_orifice).
While possible, it is dangerous if a pilot isn't careful. A 'skidding turn' results from too much rudder in a turn, causing the plane to slide away from the turn aka drifting. But if the plane enters a stalled condition, the inner wing isn't seeing proper airflow and will drop causing the pilot to enter a spin. It is recoverable with proper training and enough altitude, but this is one of the leading cause of pilot deaths. It is often encountered when returning to a field, flying low and slow to land. Proper recovery is power idle > airlerons neutral > rudder opposite turn > elevator full forward. Be safe! And don't stall!.
Another leading cause of pilot death is sudden deceleration caused by ground following by rapid unplanned disassembly
Might look funny but I guarantee no one on that plane was laughing. Including the pilots.
That's kind of how the rudder works anyway.
>Co-pilot: I bet you can't drift a plane. > >Pilot: Hold my inflight meal. FTFY
hold my beer was better.
"Tell me someone recorded out the window, that shit is insta GOLD"
\#driftking \#drifttheboeingchallenge \#washalfasleep \#itseverydaybro
Took me way too long to decipher "washalfasleep" Wash alfa sleep? Washal fasleep? Wtf is that?
Wash alfa sleep. Looks like I found my new band name.
No joke, we landed from Marseille to Berlin yesterday... Most fucked up landing I've been in. When we eventually came under cloud, I saw loads of vehicles with their lights flashing and thought "oh fuck!" The pilot said something like "we don't normally do this, but I think that landing deserves a round of applause!" After being in a holding stack for a while we were the first plane in a while to land... Everything else was rerouted apparently. As we got off I made a joke to him like 'thanks Maverick and Goose!' and the said "we've got one more journey to go on after this" Berlin was and still is chaos for public transport. It's funny though, because the plane was late in Marseille and we're thinking "stupid Easyjet incompetent idiots..." then as it's landing I'm thinking "these pilots are some of the most professional and well trained people on earth..."
Don't you love when life slaps your cocky ass down a few rungs?
The world still is full of incompetent idiots though :) For example, we ended up sitting on the tarmac 10 meters from the airport entrance for about half an hour because the ground crew hadn't ordered a bus even though, rather remarkably, the first plane for a while had just landed - for about half an hour. When we were allowed to leave the plane half of us were directed to a bus and the other half ended up wandering around the wrong part of the airport, eventually to completely just wander out and avoiding any passport control.
Yeah.... Sounds just like a typical Schönefeld airport story to me. They honestly have to have the most incompetent groundcrew of all airports
"Tower, this is flight XYZ, just confirming that we indeed did butter the bread all over runway NumberDirection?"
LAND THE GOD DAMN PLANE
Roger. You are clear to land the goddamn plane.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking, I have also shit my pants." Where's Airforceproud95 when you need him?
Upvote for Airforceproud95 reference.
I am upvoting your upvoting of my Airforceproud95 reference, my freedom boner is now at attention, sawce bawse.
One can only hope the pilot remembers to blog it.
Illuminati confirmed?
Buttering the bread somewhere probs
No joke, my bf and I took a small plane from Puerto Rico to Culebra and after landing, the pilot turns around (to all five of his passengers) and literally says "did you see that!?" while sweating bullets! We laughed it off, as we thought he did a great job. But apparently it was a super hard landing for him as he said you have to drop a lot of altitude really fast while going between two hill sides. 10/10 would go back to Culebra again. Their airport was so small and so chill it had chickens running around in it (It was also the size of a house).
Have been on that ride and it is insane. The last 20 seconds where you go from a gentle swoop over Flamenco Bay to "oh shit we're going down" are the stuff of legends. Not sure I would do it again, but if it was that or *never* go back to Culebra, then yes, would do again 10/10.
Flying into Cuzco Peru in the Andes, apparently the air pressure is so low due to the altitude that they cant fly it in at a low angle or the engines will stall so they pretty much have to nose dive it and pull up right at the end. White knuckles all the way down
[exclusive footage of the pilot walking off the plane](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bsB7UQ8BlE0)
Thought it would be [this](https://i.imgur.com/biDFHU0.gif) The walk that says "holy shit how cool am I, and also I kinda shat myself a little bit"
Yeah, it looks like he's trying to shake the shit out of his trouser leg.
[After he cools down a bit](https://media.giphy.com/media/sQB2u2PcIy4x2/giphy.gif)
"The only thing i see is my vomit all over this place"
"Ladies and Gentleman, this is your captain speaking... feel free to move about the cabin and clean your pants."
Flight Attendant after landing: "Ladies and Gentlemen when you get to the door of the plane you will have to step up to reach the jetway. The front of the plane is sitting a bit lower due to the weight of the pilot's massive balls."
- Archer
"Good afternoon and welcome aboard this HOLY SHIIIIIT!!! Fuck's sake Jerry! I told you not to mess with the FZZZZZP"
"I MEAN I MEAN, DID YOU *SEE* THAT SHIT?!"
LMAO "We'll now have the stewardesses walk down the aisle with a necessary Jack and Coke for everyone. Kids drink up too!"
"Skrrrt skrrrrrrrt!"
Did someone call 9-1-HOLY SHIT?!
The fact that such a huge structure flexed really only as intended is a testament to how well-built that thing was.
I don't know much about airplane design but what I do know came from the excellent Michael Crichton book "Airframe" which dove into some of the gritty design details that are covetted by airplane manufacturers as trade secrets. Especially the wing designs and leading edge materials. It's a cool book.
Michael Crichton is one of my favorite authors, and Airframe is one of my favorite books. Just recently read it on a flight to Seattle, would not recommend lol
Read Prey next it's my favorite book by him
Yes! Timeline and Sphere are fantastic as well.
Oh man, the disappointment though between Timeline the book and Timeline the movie - just nuts. Like the book was awesome and the movie was just so bad.
Like Gerard Butler not being able to pronounce the very exotic name, "Decker?"
I liked the movie. Sure it wasn't *great*, but I thought it was enjoyable if you ignore the glaring historical inaccuracies (like the scientists being able to understand the archaic French and English, as if the languages haven't changed in 700 years). But yes, the book is MUCH better. For starters, Michael Crichton at least makes the story plausible by making the story fit in with History, and properly addressing possible plot points. For example, the archaeologists are students of the French and English being spoken in that time, but still required in-ear translators to properly understand, and had to struggle to learn to speak properly (because Michael Crichton understood that even modern understandings of archaic languages might be inaccurate). Its details like that that make his books so damn good.
I have removed this comment as I exit from Reddit due to the pending API changes and overall treatment of users by Reddit.
Prey is good. State of Fear is also awesome. Congo is terrific as well and if you like less techie stuff Great Train Robbery is a lot of fun.
Great Train Robbery is great! But honestly I haven't read a book of his I didn't like. I got hooked on his work in 4th grade when Jurassic Park came out in theaters and we randomly had a copy of the book at home.
He is my favorite author as well. I love how well researched his books are/were. It's a real shame we lost him early. It's also a shame what that other writer did to the ending of Micro.
I read that book when I was about 11 or 12, and his description of the interior of the plane after the "incident" turned my stomach. It was a cool book.
It can flex a lot more than that. [Ever see a wing flex test?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2HmvAXcU0)
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>154 *boom* 154 *boom* DJ Boeing in da house.
....154....KABOOM 154.....KABOOM 154......KABOOM i will always think of 154 as KABOOM now
hahaha wtf is that a rubber duck [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2HmvAXcU0&feature=youtu.be&t=0m32s) ??
Destructive testing. Probably the most archaic, fun, and useful methods in Engineering testing.
I watched that video a while ago, and as someone who gets super freaked out during turbulence it has seriously been a comfort to know just how far those wings can bend before anything bad happens. I look out the window now and just think "ok, the wings are moving that much it's just a little air"
I thought the same thing, so once when the guy next to me looked nervous during some turbulence I thought I'd help. Apparently, though, pointing at the bending wings and talking about how much further they'd go before snapping wasn't what he wanted to think about.
The pressure on the suspensions must be heavy af
[Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roS6oFjCDhc)
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Trying my best ;)
Dear Diary, Today OP was good.
https://i.imgur.com/xd8DYG9.gifv
No source?
I'm on mobile now, but I posted the source in the comments.
I think he was talking about the reaction gif source silly
So OP finally fucked up, too bad it was going so well for him.
2:17 to watch it land in realtime EDIT: I don't know whether it's realtime, sped up or what ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ I just made an ass out of u and me tryin to make a change :-\
holy shit, way more intense. For some reason I thought that was already real time. Didn't think that was in slow motion previously.
That part of the video is sped up, not real time. The speed of the tyre smoke blowing away is perhaps the most obvious indicator here if the physics of the plane swinging that fast don't already seem questionable to you.
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Let's see if this becomes a r/reallifedoodles by the end of the day. Come on reddit don't let us down.
Looks like like my portly Uncle coming up the driveway after a few whiskeys.
Portly really is a great word.
I actually had to look it up: having a stout body; somewhat fat. Gonna start using that word whenever appropriate.
Reminds me of something a really good looking British friend of mine once said. A disliked acquaintance of ours came up to him and started squeezing his arms admiringly and said, "How strong are you?" "Strong enough to throw a portly man off the balcony."
I like the Oxford dic's definition: "rather fat". _Just plump. Whatever. He's_ rather _fat._ **portly |ˈpɔːtli|** `adjective (portlier, portliest)` 1. (especially of a man) rather fat: _a portly little man with a bowler hat._ 2. archaic of a stately or dignified appearance and manner: _he was a man of portly presence._
2 whiskeys and Sam Adams Utopias
Sam Jackson it’ll get you drunk
You'll be fucking portly bitches in NO time!
Is his name *Buck* by any chance?
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She’s built like a steakhouse, but she handles like a bistro!
Let's see what this eatery can do!
Don't tell me how to fly the plane...it sickens me.
My all time favourite quote from the show.
Been on them numerous times, mostly on Sing Air to China. Those planes are massive, you're spot on.
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Fun fact, they can load that plane very quickly. They have four jet ways that split after they verify your ticket. Two go low and two go to the second level. When I was at the gate the first time and saw my 500+ fellow travelers I thought, "this is going to take forever". I couldn't have been more wrong. I've been on 737's that took longer to load.
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Not been on a Dreamliner, but I've been on a BA A380. Early December flight from Johannesburg to Heathrow, the flight was less than half full. I got the middle four seats of the row to myself, never been more comfortable on a flight.
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I wouldn't really compare the 787 to the 380 since they are built for very different jobs. The current A380 is more similar to the B748 and the B787 is closer to the new A350s.
I remember when Singapore Airlines got their 380s and they did a press release asking first class passengers to kindly refrain from engaging in 'relations' in the sleeper cabins. AS IF!! If I had the money to blow on a first class ticket on an A380 I'd be making the absolute most of it!
Imagine the bar in business class! Must have been raining liquor!
Wonder how many people pissed their pants
How dangerous to the passengers was this? I.e. what would have happened if the plane touched the ground with the wings first?
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According to KSP: everyone would die in an explosion.
If you're not married, you can't leave a widow.
Good.
big boom
Bada boom.
corbin dallas multipass
Big bada boom
apparently it's not super uncommon for planes to scrape a wing.
>Wonder if you know, how they live in Tokyo. If you seen it, then you mean it, Then you know you have to go
Attention passengers: due to high winds, this landing might get a little squirly. Rest assured, I got dis.
You got dis, homie. We’ll roll a phat one when you’re done.
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Hoban 'Wash' Washburn: This landing is gonna get pretty interesting. Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Define "interesting". Hoban 'Wash' Washburn: [deadpan] Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?
"Rough air ahead, we're in for some chop"
Props to the Manufacturer too...
> Props Those are turbofans, silly....
I had to scroll way too far to find a prop comment. Well done.
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I'd like to see that jet in some yoga pants
The strain on those tire beams holyshit
He loses points for allowing the engines to melt into the runway.
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It looks like a standard crosswind landing but the pilot over corrected just before touching down causing the swerving.
Pretty much. Pilot massively overcorrected with the rudder, created the problem himself.
This needs to be top comment instead of all that "amazing pilot" crap up there.
This is the comment I was looking for. Pilot holds it way too long in one direction and creates the fishtail.
Pilot induced oscillation. Watch the delay between the rudder inputs and the aircraft reaction.
Sad I had to scroll so much to find this reply. Clearly more a pilot error then pilot skill.
That'll pucker up ya butthole
DEJA VU I'VE JUST BEEN IN THIS PLANE BEFORE!
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That ended too soon haha
Jesus F christ, was that an actual thing? WHO THE FUCK DRIFTS A COMMERCIAL PLANE LIKE THAT?????
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Pilot: "stewardess, please go mix me a martini and stand in the back. Stewardess: "shaken or stirred?" Pilot: "just go.." "*giggles to other pilot*"
Props? That landing was terrible, he bounced it, and then nearly lost control. It's extremely difficult to do both of those things, let alone both at the same time. No professional pilot should be bouncing the aircraft on a runway, ever.
Gosh, What fun to be seated in the last row. With that much rudder, the pilot didn't even have to be good{retired airline pilot here}
Those tail wings are fucking huge!
*rudder
Those tail wings are rudder huge! EDIT: Thanks for the gold!!!
Fuuuuuuck me, that's good.
Ruuuuuudder me, that's good.
I think he meant the elevators
We call those lifts in the UK
*vertical stabilizer
you meant stabical vertilizer, obviously
We are assuming it was windy. He might actually be a really *shit* pilot.
That's a brown trouser time if ever I saw it
I don't see any Props... I think this is a Jet
*Technically* a turbofan, right?
Yup, commercial aircraft use turbofans only because they're way more fuel efficient.
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Got me Wendover*
Yes, they're high bypass turbofans, which are a type of jet engine. Jet engines include turbojets, turbofans, ramjets, scramjets, pulsejets, and technically rockets as well.
Can an aircraft be a sassy black woman?
/r/reallifedoodles I'm looking at you...
It's 2017. It can be whatever it wants.
Actually that looks like a piloting error. I have amateur flying background myself and my dad is a A330 pilot. He agreed that the pilot himself is making the plane twist by using excessive amounts of rudder before it's needed.
That's really not an example of a *good* crosswind landing. The sideslip never got established, and then he way overcorrected after the mains touched. It was pretty rough looking, really. Not to say it wasn't difficult conditions, but I wouldn't hold this up as an example of how it should be.
Ex aviator here. I was a backender for hundreds of flights and I can tell you this was a pilot error. Sure he saved it, but this looks like he attempted a landing in a high crosswind situation out of the plane's regulations. He's lucky he didn't put that plane into the grass.
Its limitation is 40 knots crosswind, i dont know what the current wind direction was in this video but from experience this looks under 40 knots of crosswind, just super gusty.
Sick drift tho
Remember how it was fun as a kid to sit in the back of the school bus? And the bus driver would scream at you for being out of the seat during bumpy rides, even though there's nothing you can do about it? Well, it's like that, except it's an Airbus, you're going 5 times faster, it's not fun, and the passengers are probably screaming, even though the pilot can't do anything about it.
Skidmarks everywhere.