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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Just a guess here, but I suspect the shot of the shuttle is one taken while the vehicle was still on the launch pad, sitting shrouded in low lying fog? The orientation is too vertical for in-flight, since it has a pretty aggressive attitude change as it begins tilting over on it's back for orbital entry. The astronauts wind up flying the beast head down, towards the Earth once orbit is achieved.
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jack herer
Big Wall climber
Veneta, Oregon
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Mar 11, 2012 - 03:46am PT
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I re-edited the video I posted above, slowing it down n stuff so its easier to see the cool stuff. Probably much more enjoyable to watch...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Mar 14, 2012 - 01:41am PT
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New photos from Cassini:
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 14, 2012 - 01:47am PT
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Jack Herer, where's that airport with the port-a-potty by the taxiway?
That's a first for me I do believe! A crapper and a pay phone, what more
could one ask for?
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jack herer
Big Wall climber
Veneta, Oregon
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Mar 14, 2012 - 02:11am PT
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Reilly,
Thats my home strip in Corvallis, the same one landed at. The owner of the FBO really makes his money off of owning Honey Bucket porto-pots. So its great, that one in the video is one of the cleanest ones I've seen! Corvallis is a great airport, not much traffic, big runway, lots of IAPs, was/is a great place to learn.
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KCVO
Cheers,
Tyler
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Mar 19, 2012 - 02:43am PT
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http://news.yahoo.com/missing-balloon-pilot-saved-others-crashing-040127153.html
Missing balloon pilot saved others before crashing
FITZGERALD, Ga. (AP) — Authorities searched Sunday for a hot air balloon pilot from North Carolina who went missing in the South Georgia woods when his balloon crashed during a weekend thunderstorm.
Ben Hill County Sheriff Bobby McLemore said 63-year-old Edward Ristaino of Cornelius, N.C., was taking five skydivers into the air Friday evening during a festival in Fitzgerald, Ga., when a storm hit.
Ristaino told the skydivers to jump from the balloon. None were injured.
"He saved our lives," Jessica Wesnofske, 30, one of the skydivers, told The Charlotte Observer. "Another minute, we would have been in the storm with him."
Erin Daly, whose brother was one of the skydivers, called Ristaino a hero who saved lives.
The sheriff said strong winds then forced the balloon up to about 18,000 feet before it collapsed in a downdraft and plummeted to the ground.
Authorities have not found the balloon. Ristaino, who had nearly two decades experience flying hot air balloons, had brief radio contact with authorities.
"He told them he was in trouble," the sheriff told The Associated Press on Sunday evening. "He didn't think he was going to make it."
McLemore said the pilot was reading off his altitude readings as he fell, in an apparent effort to assist any search. The sheriff said crews would resume a ground and air search of the mostly wooded area on Monday morning.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 22, 2012 - 12:31pm PT
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Check out this chopper crash. Hard to believe there were no "serious injuries".
Military Helicopter Crash
What happened? Pretty clearly a case of the mustard coming off the hotdog.
Dood might have survived the crash but he's gonna be in the ICU from the chewing-out.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Mar 25, 2012 - 11:11pm PT
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Mar 31, 2012 - 11:03pm PT
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Red Bull vid was anticlimactic. Shows the dood moving out of the capsule, but fades to black before showing free-fall. Bullsh#t. Or rather, Red Bullsh#t.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Passenger lands plane with Wis. pilot unconscious
Associated Press – 1 hr 31 mins ago
STURGEON BAY, Wis. (AP) — An 80-year-old woman was able to successfully land a twin-engine airplane in northeastern Wisconsin after her husband became unconscious at the controls and died.
Door County Sheriff Terry Vogel says the dispatch center was told just after 5 p.m. Monday that a Cessna about 6 miles south of Sturgeon Bay had declared an emergency.
The pilot, an 81-year-old man from the Sturgeon Bay area, had suffered a medical emergency and was unconscious. His wife, who was the passenger, was flying the plane.
A certified pilot was able to fly alongside the plane and coach the wife. Just after 6 p.m., her right engine ran out of fuel and lost power.
She was able to land at Door County Cherryland Airport. The wife suffered minor injuries. Her husband was pronounced dead.
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While she had, no doubt, watched he dear husband land many times this is
a more impressive feat in light of her losing an engine which can make
a twin considerably more tricky to fly. To me the most remarkable thing
is that the poor thing had the composure to do so.
80 yr old lands twin Cessna
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Apr 16, 2012 - 06:54pm PT
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http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Lost_Spitfire_Squadron_206526-1.html
April 15, 2012
Lost Squadron Of Pickled Spitfires Found
By Russ Niles, Editor-in-Chief
Aviation historians and warbird enthusiasts are drooling at the discovery of at least 12 and maybe as many 20 perfectly preserved brand-new Spitfire Mark 14s buried in Myanmar, which was formerly Burma. Thanks to the tenacity (and apparently considerable diplomatic skills) of British farmer David Cundall, the lost squadron of pristine fighters was found where they were buried by U.S. troops in 1945 when it became clear they wouldn't be needed in the final days of the Second World War. At least a dozen of the aircraft, one of the latest variants with their 2,035-horsepower Roll Royce Griffon engines replacing the 1,200-1,500-horsepower Merlins in earlier models, were buried without ever being removed from their original packing crates. It's possible another eight were also buried after the war ended. After spending 15 years and $200,000 of his own money, Cundall was rewarded with visual proof of the magnitude of his discovery. "We sent a borehole down and used a camera to look at the crates," he told the Telegraph. "They seemed to be in good condition."
The aircraft were declared surplus when they arrived in Burma because the Japanese were in retreat by then and carrier-based Seafires were getting all the action. They were ordered buried in their original crates, waxed, swaddled in grease paper and their joints tarred against the elements. Cundall found some of the soldiers who buried the planes by placing ads in magazines and was able to narrow down the search before using ground-penetrating radar to confirm the burial site. The next obstacles to recovery are political. Myanmar's former military junta was under a variety of sanctions, among them an international convention that prevented the transfer of military goods to and from the country. Recent political reforms have led to the lifting of that ban effective April 23. Cundall will also need the permission of the new Myanmar government to unearth the treasure. He helped his own cause by making numerous trips to the country and earning the trust of government officials. British Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to seal the deal with Myanmar President Thein Sein during a visit.
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