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Ted Striker

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  1. 1 hour ago, RkFast said:

    Some video coming out from another plane waiting to take off. The idiot pilot didnt "flare" the plane for landing AND didnt have the flaps down for landing. S/he just flew into the ground in a misconfigured jet. What basically happens is that a plane gets to about 10 feet above the ground, the pilot raises the nose slightly, cuts power back and the wings stop "flying" and the plane...usually gently...touches down. Im sure sherpa will quibble on the details here, especually being a former Navy guy (as he should), but thats the general idea. What appears to have happened here is that pilot didnt do that and just flew the plane into the ground, snapping the landing gear AND breaking the wing spar, which takes a TON of force to do. You can actually see the whole fuselage buckling and the wing spar snap.

     

    When Kramer hears about this the sh!t's gonna hit the fan!

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  2. 17 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

    We always fly in & out of Chicago Midway. It's only one square mile in the middle of the SouthSide.   It gets interesting how they gotta slam on the "brakes" when landing...

     

    6 hours ago, WhoTom said:

    I'd hate to live in the neighborhood right in front of the runway.

     

    2 hours ago, Wacka said:

    Flew into Midway once. Was at night an saw a mostly dark square space in a sea of lights. Thought "We're landing in that?"

     

    It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether.

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