Exellent, informative analysis.
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Just out of curiosity - Airplane Guys
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Exellent, informative analysis.
He never actually touched. You can see just before touchdown the nose rotated up, so at the same time he hit the TOGA button (take off go around) which automatically applied full power. So that's pretty much the point of no return right there.
If the wheels had touched, spoilers would have automatically deployed and he would select reverse thrust. At that point, getting cleaned back up and back in the air before hitting the little jet would have been almost impossible. I'd guess he was about 2-5 seconds away from an unavoidable collision.
What a story of bravery and understanding.
Both pilots were incredible in thier actions.
I have visited the American Cemetery in Northern France overlooking the beaches of the infamous landings. It was the most moving experiance of my life and brought me to tears. It has a building that shows the stories of a number of young American soldiers including videos from the time; all wonderfully presented. The boys were all very young; some were doctors, butchers even priests, going into battle, and the impression of the videos was they were feeling indistructable. Sadly all lost thier lives in a horrible war to benefit our freedom. Although a moving place it is also a wonderful memorial for those brave soldiers. Please visit it if you get the chance.
Had a nice warm day yesterday, so I did a major cleanup of my retirement toy. It was a little breezy, so no flying (I'm still sorting out my tailwheel skills, only about 40 of my close to 500 hrs are in tailwheel machines). 85 raging hp, climb, cruise and approach speeds? 65 mph! No starter, no electrical system other than the mags. It's a Grega GN-1, a variation of the Pietenpol design. Built in 1992 by a guy in North Dakota that specialized in warbird restorations, specifically Corsairs. Previous owner is a professional photographer, hence the "cheesecake" shots.
That's what seperation's for.
However, it doesn't work too well if they're at the same height heading towards each other...
Just like the two heavies I saw locally (I'm beneath a fairly heavily used corridor) about 20 years ago, as I was driving long a long straight paralleling the corridor, I saw two aircraft heading towards each other and thought about separation.
Turned out one of them wasn't as seperated as the other thought and did an emergency break to the right.
Never did find a report on that incident, even as I scoured incident reports for the next couple of years.
Probably two mil craft - it was certainly during the time of a heavy push in the Iraq / Afghan thing, and air traffic in this corridor was mutltiple times its normal density.
Volume on...Best 20 years of my life, I just didn't know it back then. 
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Atlanta airport parallel runways. Racing to touch down first!
What a scene from my seat. Like looking in a mirror.
I always wondered how much sep. we had......
What a scene from my seat. Like looking in a mirror.
I always wondered how much sep. we had......
What a pair of beauties! What's the stall speed (on the plane!)
I worked there for over 20 years as a line mechanic. Narrow body aircraft can come and go in as little as thirty minutes. It’s NASCAR pit stops all day every day. Delta alone has over 1,000 flights per day at ATL!
There needs to be an emoji for a boner. WOW!!!
If I started right now and lived to be 1000 years old, I might be able to accomplish about 10% of that sheet metal work. Amazing skills!
Not sayin' this gave me a woody or anything, but it might just have....
That would take pissing off the neighbors to a whole new level!
