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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1500 on: October 16, 2016, 03:56:47 AM »
Wow! :o I had never seen this before
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1501 on: October 16, 2016, 07:11:13 PM »
id class that as a significant emotional event!

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1502 on: October 20, 2016, 09:29:02 PM »
First two from the Hubble (pre and post upgrades) and obviously New Horizons for the 3rd. What this is showing is we have continually designed better optical technology AND the technology to get it closer to our subjects.



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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1503 on: October 22, 2016, 03:09:43 AM »
This is why you shouldn't stand directly behind the guy firing the RPG:


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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1504 on: October 22, 2016, 04:35:25 AM »
Proof that aliens live amongst us...


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« Reply #1505 on: October 28, 2016, 05:32:20 AM »
Beriev A-50 Mainstay

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1506 on: October 28, 2016, 08:54:34 PM »
This is why you shouldn't stand directly behind the guy firing the RPG:
Reminds me of a use we got for the Arabic "Yalla" (hurry) during a peace keeping mission... Yalla, as in hurry to the latrines because of a stomach upset.
The least desirable version was Recoilless Yalla  :o

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1507 on: October 29, 2016, 05:04:10 AM »
The beauty of high speed photography:


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« Reply #1508 on: October 29, 2016, 10:44:09 PM »
Not so cool for the aircrew and passengers:

Before:


After:
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« Reply #1509 on: October 30, 2016, 08:44:12 AM »
That's it! Get a photo standing in front of the aircraft you just crashed & burned! Does wonders for the old career, that does! :-\
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« Reply #1510 on: October 30, 2016, 10:37:40 AM »
From what I heard int he news reports it certainly doesn't sound like it was the fault of the crew.  This only happened on take off taxi too.

Mind you, my comments about people taking selfies/videoing the evacuation on the phones whilst in the cabin are less forgiving...
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« Reply #1511 on: October 30, 2016, 09:17:58 PM »
From what I heard int he news reports it certainly doesn't sound like it was the fault of the crew.  This only happened on take off taxi too.

Mind you, my comments about people taking selfies/videoing the evacuation on the phones whilst in the cabin are less forgiving...

I wasn't really saying it was their fault but the photo is symptomatic, to me, of your second line, wherein people now seem to have the mindset that if there isn't a selfie you weren't there or it never happened.

The wonders of the Social Media Syndrome/Disease. ::)
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1512 on: October 30, 2016, 09:27:57 PM »
Definitely a disease!  Perhaps we can name it "Twitterpation" with "Twitterpated" being the term to describe the afflicted.

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1513 on: October 30, 2016, 10:28:35 PM »
I can't believe the people stand close to or walking towards a burning aircraft that may explode! Probably PO'd they can't get their bags!

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« Reply #1514 on: October 30, 2016, 11:35:21 PM »
Yes, there is a surprising lack of crowd control there.  With that many people de-planed, there should be at least security personnel moving them away, if not fire crews running them over on the way in.

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« Reply #1515 on: October 30, 2016, 11:43:25 PM »
I can't believe the people stand close to or walking towards a burning aircraft that may explode! Probably PO'd they can't get their bags!

I know! that FedEx jet on the runway the next day was exploding too... Stay the F away people.  Make your cell phone call from the other end of the airport.  ::)
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« Reply #1516 on: October 31, 2016, 12:05:10 AM »
In one of the video's, one the crash trucks had to wait to for passengers to move out the way to get around the front of the aircraft.
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« Reply #1517 on: October 31, 2016, 12:31:33 AM »
On October 30, 1964 NASA research pilot Joe Walker climbed into a very strange contraption. The machine was called the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) or sometimes the "Flying Bedstead." The spindly, four-legged research craft was designed to simulate the conditions astronauts would find when landing. The Moon only has one-sixth of Earth's gravity and there is no atmosphere to create drag, so the final landing had an almost vertical approach with the speed controlled by a rocket engine.

The main engine of the LLRV would lift it to test altitude and then be throttled back until it only supported five-sixths of the craft's total weight. The craft and pilot would then be subjected to conditions similar to those they would experience on the Moon. Walker demonstrated this principle on three flights on that first day of testing. As Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to land on the Moon said, "the mission would not have been successful without the type of simulation that resulted from the LLRVs."

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« Reply #1518 on: October 31, 2016, 07:28:40 AM »
Su-33 Flanker under tow. I like the work stand carriage adapter.

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« Reply #1519 on: October 31, 2016, 06:59:10 PM »
Here is the "after" picture of American Airlines 767-300ER Flt. #383



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« Reply #1520 on: November 01, 2016, 08:47:41 AM »
Gads,,, has a well done look

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1521 on: November 01, 2016, 09:42:16 AM »
Gotta love the "Caution, Jet Blast" sign!
Theory I heard was that the engine failed and shed parts all over the airfield. I wonder if the passengers realize how lucky they were to walk away from this.

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« Reply #1522 on: November 02, 2016, 01:06:19 AM »
Two more pictures of the damage.

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« Reply #1523 on: November 02, 2016, 03:48:57 AM »
Snagged this off Facebook. Boom-boom!!

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« Reply #1524 on: November 02, 2016, 04:51:18 AM »


a Soviet transport aircraft seems to brush the treetops as it comes in to land at Kabul Airport on February 8, 1989.
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