...the Navy's less well-known "bottom gun" flight school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KVqb94Vja8

Do they know that cars have had disc brakes for about half a century?

For what it's worth, i found another group of people that don't seem too enamored with the braking ability of a train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUKPn73I5hk

Caption was "Any landing you can walk away from..." The footprints don't look right though, so maybe it's a 'shop?

An engine cowling?

Several of them actually but here's the thing: they remained attached to the aircraft.

Okay fine... I don't know that for sure, but I'm speculating based on the date the craft was manufactured.

Let's see if I can confuse things some more by throwing my $0.02 in... I think the motions of the plane seem dramatic not because of the amount of pitch change, but the rate. Initially the takeoff seems to go great... the plane accelerates down the runway, then rotates smoothly to what seems to be a...

Not aviation but avian, which is spelled similarly: https://www.sadanduseless.com/kfc-meme/

Are you sure those ChickenPhotos are fake? They look exactly how I imagine fast food chains.

I think it may depend on the time of day.

Guess what just flew over my office at very low altitude?

Not aviation but avian, which is spelled similarly: https://www.sadanduseless.com/kfc-meme/

The displaced cowling seems to “relax” but then the other side lets loose, and both tear off as the plane slows. ...but the pilots were momentarily relieved when the "detached engine cowling asymmetry" lamp went out. :mrgreen: Alternate explanation: CFM (do they still make the engines for...

Poor pilot was probably coming from another type that had the ability to climb, and forgot that A340s don't do that.

"May your skies always be blue, and your green paint always on the inside."

Some pretty in-depth analysis by Juan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FQE38L81DI

Tower really feared for their own lives, the plane was headed straight to the tower at about tower altitude. Yes, but who had the right of way? :lol: It reminds me of an old saying in boating, regarding right-of-way: "He was right, dead right, as he sped along, but he's just as dead as if he'd...

As I'm still Not_completely sure if bridges or ships are the ones at fault, I was thinking of equipping them both with nukes to destroy each other. But airbags could also work, yes. https://www.csun.edu/~hfmgt001/lighthouse.htm ...seems to be generally acknowledged as not_true, but funny nonetheless.

And continuing the theme, our local transit authority has this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL6jKOCeVec

I've actually seen it (sitting, not in operation) a few times, though not recently.

Or how about... real afterburners? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-497_Black_Beetle

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/04/travel/s ... index.html

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I guess my point is that if it’s soooooooo important to electrify transportation, why is there sooooo little talk and effort on US freight rail? Here are my guesses, in no particular order: 1) No money. 2) Long distances to be covered, which often are distantly distant from sources of electric_powe...

What was the pilot thinking?

Words to the effect of "Hold my beer"?

Couple of things to mention. - To start to move form zero you have a quite a bit of static friction to overcome. It takes much more power / force to just barely start moving than it takes to keep moving and even accelerating at slow speed (as can be seen in these videos). - For traction you only ha...