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Love it!

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Education

If you think "Eduaction" is spelled incorrectly, the joke is on you.
EduAction is a worldwide movement to educate the poor.
https://blogs.worldbank.org/development ... /eduaction

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Does anyone think the sign looks fake?
If you go to 1420 N 45th St, Seattle, WA 98103 in Google Maps you can find the sign.
This is what it said the last time Google Streets Camera Car drove by.

[Mitch]

Is that what happens when tryin' to land a jumbo jet during windshear? That oughta put pilot, crew, and passengers in Number 4 Pucker Factor!

[Roy]

Wayne, that A380 is one hell of a .gif! I've never seen one as large as 27 MB.
Can you tell us what's going on with the plane? Does the A380 have steerable landing gear, like the B52?

[J. S. Bach]

It looks like an freighter to me, an apparent lack windows.

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Education

If you think "Eduaction" is spelled incorrectly, the joke is on you.
EduAction is a worldwide movement to educate the poor.
https://blogs.worldbank.org/development ... /eduaction

Actually no. I wasn't paying attention to the spelling only the message and thought it rang very true. Education or eduaction may be expensive, but ignorance in the long run will cost the country and society a lot more. We have a lot of ignorant people in this country and sadly we have a lot of educated ignorant people as well.

BH

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Is that what happens when tryin' to land a jumbo jet during windshear? That oughta put pilot, crew, and passengers in Number 4 Pucker Factor!

The tower at Dusseldorf airport only reported a crosswind, not windshear, however, I think you are correct.

Ordinarily, the A380 handles crosswind landings so smoothly the passengers never notice the transition from flying to landing.

This landing was at Düsseldorf airport during a wind storm. It was a normal crosswind approach but after touchdown an unexpected wind gust tried to blow the A380 off the runway. When that happens here at Tucson International they call it wind shear or windshear. The pilot did some creative rudder work until the airplane was firmly in the ground and could taxi steering with the front wheels.

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Can you tell us what's going on with the plane? Does the A380 have steerable landing gear, like the B52?

The A380 got blown to the right by a gust of wind after it had aligned with the runway and touched down.

The rear axle of the six-wheel body landing gear (seen immediately behind the four-wheel wing landing gear) is steerable for maneuvering and push-back at the terminal but is locked during takeoff, landing, and taxing.

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It looks like an freighter to me, an apparent lack windows.

The Airbus A380 is a BIG airplane.

The A380 in the video is a passenger airplane with windows, lots of windows. The airplane is so BIG

the windows seem like tiny dots along the fuselage.


Here is a frame from the video I posted.


Maybe a comparison with something we all are in awe of, the Union Pacific Bigboy Locomotive, will give meaning to BIG.

The BigBoy locomotive is 85 feet long (132' with tender,) weighs 762,000 lbs and produces 6,290 hp at 41 mph. Maximum speed it 80 mph.

The A380 has a Length of 239 feet and a wingspan 262 feet. It weighs 1,268,000 lbs and during takeoff produces 7,200 hp at 200 mph. Top speed is 732 mph.

[Roy]

Thanks, Wayne. The "creative rudder work" was evident while the plane was still in the air. One can imagine the pilot working that rudder as if in fast-motion.

[sleepmac]

Wayne, I am constantly amazed at your knowledge of how to do research on the 'Net. Thank you for all you contribute.

Dan Weinhold

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Anybody going to Woodstock (again) ?
August.

[rogruth]

I used to go to Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Louisville and a few other places to hear symphony orchestras and some of the big bands
of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.