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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Sep 14, 2018 - 12:52pm PT
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AN-225 Mriya, operating as flight ADB286F "Super," the world's biggest cargo transporter and only-one-of-its-kind, landed on Rwy 30 at KOAK on Sunday, September 9, 2018, to load relief supplies in support of Typhoon Mangkhut efforts (Guam).
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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^^^. Geez! That thang is impressive but as big as it is it is pretty damn dangerous flying it so damn close to people! I wonder how much it cost?
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Mike Honcho
Trad climber
Glenwood Springs, CO
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Lord, we just got back from our 1st and last trip to Malaysia. I got heavily influenced to go this year and the Wife had a blast!!!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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^^^ Ya didn’t take yer kids? 😔
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Mike Honcho
Trad climber
Glenwood Springs, CO
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Kids? What kids? We have two Pugs two and donkeys and all our stuff going on on.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Exactly! 🤡
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Amazing video, Hank!
Especially the hot landing into the fence?!
As they say, any landing you can walk away from...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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So what the hell is a ‘Superjet’? That weren’t no A380!
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Mike Honcho
Trad climber
Glenwood Springs, CO
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Rick A wrote,
Amazing video, Hank!
Especially the hot landing into the fence?!
As they say, any landing you can walk away from...
I am stunned I didn't blow my femur on that landing. I have a huge hanging blood balloon from my knee to my hip.. I didn't really walk away either.
Now the Embassy Suites? I walked away from that one baby, then collapsed from blood loss 6 blocks later.. again, was that really walking away?
Now my Wife? She's a fantastic jumper that's easily way better than me, and hot, and popular at events. Pretty sure I get invites because the organizers love her.. oh fate, how you mock me.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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hope you heal up well Hankster!
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
Wilds of New Mexico
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Oct 10, 2018 - 12:19pm PT
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Yikes Hankster! Hope you are ok!
Onetime when I was a smokejumper we were jumping this fire and the jump spot was pretty good except for one major hazard- a huge triple topped snag. In the plane everyone was like whatever you do stay away from that thing. My buddy Jeff goes out the door and it literally looked like his sole goal was to land in the snag. Every turn, every correction just brought him closer. It was like the thing had a tractor beam on him. Sure enough, he goes right into the top of it. The branches shredded through his canopy and hung him up about 150 feet off the ground. Luckily he was firmly hung up (the big risk is hitting a tree, having the canopy deflate and then the branches break causing a free fall to the ground) and he rapped out of the tree with the handy "let down" webbing we jumped with (a terrifying process in which you tie off to a parachute riser, run the webbing through some rings in your jump suit and then unclip from the parachute and lower down).
Usually if someone hangs up you have to climb up the tree and get the parachute out of it once the fire is handled but in this case the tree was too dangerous to climb so maybe his parachute is still out there (Lassen National Park backcountry)!!
Anyway, Mike Honcho's video of sailing over all of that grass into the fence reminded me that jump.
Jeff third from left:
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 29, 2018 - 11:09am PT
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Stick and rudder skills are sooo early 20th century! 😜
Good article though and it’s why when the automated plane today has problems you are deep doodoo. I can go on ad nauseum with examples but I will just say that I will only fly on airlines where English or German is the native language of the flight crew. That isn’t to say those problems don’t exist on those flight decks but I firmly believe they are not as severe and recurrent training is taken much more seriously. In the aftermath if the SFO Asiana clown shown the clown show of Korean airlines’ recurrent training came into the floodlights, and it wasn’t pretty. The pilots had set up a website where they shared info and it also appears the sim trainers were tipping their hands. As if that isn’t bad enough the level of maneuvers and situations they were put into were laughably simplistic. A retired US airline pilot who was a sim trainer there said that the flying skills of pilots there were dismal, at best, and that included Korean Air Force pilots! He quit in disgust. You couldn’t comp me a first class ticket on a Korean airline.
Sadly the percentage of US airlines’ pilots who got their stick and rudder skills courtesy of Uncle Sam is plummeting and their replacements are not even close.
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Robb
Social climber
Cat Box
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Oct 29, 2018 - 01:06pm PT
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11k hours between the 1st and 2cd? Maybe not P E Reilly.
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