| Author | Message | ||
     Doerman |
That was close! | ||
| Glitch |
With not an inch to spare! | ||
| Nevrenuf |
holy crap batman!!!!! | ||
| Piotr12 |
I think the front wheels hit dirt! | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Tower... we have Smirnoff funny stuff. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Talk about, on the limit! Very high pucker factor on the flight deck I imagine. | ||
| Doerman |
Two extra maintenance items at flight destination: 1) Remove gravel from engine nacelles 2) Re-upholster pilot seats | ||
| Bikertrash05 |
"I'm running out of film, won't have enough to film the crash." LOL | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Think he did that on purpose? Keeping it on the ground a bit longer to build up as much speed as possible? It would probably climb better if the pilot's testicles weren't so heavy! | ||
| Pwnzor |
Good lord... that's a white-knuckle moment if ever I saw one. That video made me feel like I was about to highside into a rock wall. | ||
| Doerman |
Keeping it on the ground a bit longer to build up as much speed as possible? I don't think so. He was relying on ground effect for lift and didn't climb until he was way past the runway. | ||
| J2blue |
I watched a C5 lift off from a base in Marietta Georgia and wondered how on earth it could float since it didn't seem to have any forward motion. Now that Il76 used to make regular night time take-offs in Nashville and you could always hear it's engines roaring when no other planes seem to make any noise at all. But you could never see it in the air because they flew in and out during the dark. Seeing this makes me wonder what it would be like to have seen it before moving away. Awesome. I wonder if the Il76 can use those rocket assist motors like the C130s do? | ||
| Tbolt_pilot |
Yeah, the first C5 that took off over my head, I almost ran out from under it because I swore it was going to fall straight down. The Russkies need to put another set of engines on that thing. | ||
| Aesquire |
Old pilots add fuel in their calculations for those happy days when the runway is closed and you have to divert, or go around because of traffic, or...or... The Mantra since Glenn Curtis relates to how much you think you're loved.......  In a Gulfstream It's like, "another 200 lbs for the wife, 200 for each child, 200 for the dog....." In a Piper Cub it's "...an extra gallon for the dog..." In an IL-76, it's "another 2000 for....." If that pilot has a mistress & 2 kids, that could be 5 tons of JP on top of the overload of Bulldozers ( or Mutton ) you're trying to coax into very thin, not very supportive air. Hot air, especially humid, very hot air, is Fraking thin. For example, Summertime 2PM Telluride CO. takeoffs are sometimes not possible with a full plane, at all. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
theres the 76... but really impressive is the An-225. Saw it in Paris back in the 80s. I have no idea how that thing got up in the air, the airfield didnt look long enough. Big Azz MoFo. When you absolutely have to remove everything from the kolkhoz and get out of town. |
