The amazing and cool photo thread

[Keef]

Windshear on top of 44 knot crosswinds in Portugal.

 

[CodeRedR51]

I watched a video on YouTube recently of planes doing just that. One damn near wrecked but the pilot managed to get it back into the air.

Edit: This one -

 

[hellnback]

Give that pilot a medal!

 

[Cano]

Indded. Amazing save.

 

[terminator363]

Entire 13 story building in China falls over. Wow. http://gizmodo.com/5304233/entire-new-13+story-building-tips-over-in-shanghai/gallery/1

 

[Diego440]

 

[CodeRedR51]

Seems to be turning towards him.

Nom, nom, nom.

 

[Beerz]

Windshear on top of 44 knot crosswinds in Portugal.

Now, if we could only find a way for those winds to blow away our national debt...

 

[Neal]

Now that is an amazing and cool photo 👍

 

[SRV2LOW4ME]

Agreed. The whale photo is awesome, but if I saw that swimming near me, I'd probably freak out.

 

[GregTheStig]

I hear you guys like old photos...

This was taken sometime during the 60's

Night before the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge - 1937

 

[AlexGTV]

 

[Wiegert]

I hear you guys like old photos...

This was taken sometime during the 60's

The 2nd Gen Ram in the background suggests that photo is a little more recent than that.




Lena Pillars, Eastern Siberia:

Perspective:

 

[Madertus]

The 2nd Gen Ram in the background suggests that photo is a little more recent than that.

Owned

 

[land sea air]

yup, but definitely a 60s style dragster and still an awesome pic.

 

[BobK]

The 2nd Gen Ram in the background suggests that photo is a little more recent than that.

Perhaps the photo itself is a bit more recent, then, but the car itself is certainly from the early-mid sixties.

Makes me wonder, then, if that's really Big Daddy at the wheel.

 

[Anghammarad]

I watched a video on YouTube recently of planes doing just that. One damn near wrecked but the pilot managed to get it back into the air.

Edit: This one -

That is in fact quite poor piloting. Even if the crosswind was at such levels that he even should try to land in the first place, which I doubt, he (or she) used incorrect techniques.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Eh, he didn't crash it. For that he get's a 👍.

 

[Anghammarad]

Eh, he didn't crash it. For that he get's a 👍.

He never should have been so close to crashing that he, more or less, had to luck out.

This is an example of a top level crosswind landing



You come in at an angle, just before touchdown you line up the aircraft with the runway with the side rudder and at the same time use the ailerons to bank a bit into the wind so as not to blow sideways off the runway (In this case he steps left on the rudder and banks right). The touchdown should be firm and done with the windward landing gear first.

 

[AlexGTV]

Was I the only one I first thought this was GT5?

 

[CodeRedR51]

He never should have been so close to crashing that he, more or less, had to luck out.

Well obviously he came around and landed it just fine the second time, so...

 

[Wiegert]

Was I the only one I first thought this was GT5?

Probably. I mean, it's a photo of a Porsche 917K, so GT5 never even crossed my mind when I saw that

 

[AlexGTV]

^I remember a car in GT4 that looked very similar to it, that's why my mind went there initially.

 

[overheating]

While I don't think this photo is exactly amazing, I do think it is cool as it happens to have the Schulze Motorsport Nissan GT-R N24.
Read the full article.

 

[GregTheStig]

The 2nd Gen Ram in the background suggests that photo is a little more recent than that.

Good eye. I found it in a huge collection of 60's-era dragsters actually taken during that time and assumed.

Owned

 

[NINE_HUNDRED]

 

[slims]

You come in at an angle, just before touchdown you line up the aircraft with the runway with the side rudder and at the same time use the ailerons to bank a bit into the wind so as not to blow sideways off the runway (In this case he steps left on the rudder and banks right). The touchdown should be firm and done with the windward landing gear first.

You're a pilot? Have you done this before?

 

[Keef]

Well obviously he came around and landed it just fine the second time, so...

Eh, he didn't crash it. For that he get's a 👍.

You're a pilot? Have you done this before?

Yes, actually, and he's right. The plane naturally crabs into the wind, and when landing the proper technique is to use the rudder to keep the nose pointed straight down the runway to avoid side-loading the gear, and bank into the wind to both avoid being blown off sideways and avoid wind getting under the wing and flipping the plane over, which nearly happened to that pilot.

For what it's worth, airline pilots are supposed to avoid this type of cross-control landing because the long wingspan and low-hanging engines allow little room for bank while landing, the landing gear is designed to withstand this sort of side-loading, and because landing with one wing low and on one wheel is generally frowned upon by passengers.

 

[RocZX]

 

[CodeRedR51]

I say photoshop job.