"Jcarr" (jcarr)
03/03/2016 at 10:25 • Filed to: Planelopnik
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"Jcarr" (jcarr)
03/03/2016 at 10:25 • Filed to: Planelopnik | 2
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Me standing next to one of the main bogies of a Travis AFB C-5 at Oshkosh 2010.
This particular C-5 is one of two !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! models. The SCMs are A model Galaxies that have had undergone a number of modifications in order to transport large items such as satellites.
Here’s a video of the same Galaxy leaving Oshkosh that year. Note how the two rear bogies are fully extended, while the two front ones are still in their lowered or kneel position.
PanchoVilleneuve ST
> Jcarr
03/03/2016 at 10:30 |
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I’m not scared of flying at all, but seeing aircraft tires always makes me a little anxious. I know, logically, they’re strong as all hell and perfectly capable of handling the forces of landing, but look at them. They look like they came off of Donald Duck’s car.
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Jcarr
> PanchoVilleneuve ST
03/03/2016 at 10:32 |
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Yeah, not built for traction, just for handling incredible loads.
My hovercraft is full of eels
> Jcarr
03/03/2016 at 10:34 |
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I have a very similar photo below/near an An-124. I even have a folding chair with me. :-)
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PanchoVilleneuve ST
> Jcarr
03/03/2016 at 10:41 |
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Like I said, I understand that, but when I see tires for road use every day and then see these, the difference between these and how tires are “supposed to look” I get a little worried.
It’s silly and irrational as all hell but, you know, brains are weird.
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Jcarr
> PanchoVilleneuve ST
03/03/2016 at 10:43 |
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I hear you. I mean “yeah” as in “yeah, I know what you mean”.
EL_ULY
> Jcarr
03/03/2016 at 10:47 |
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YUUUGE!
Ash78, voting early and often
> Jcarr
03/03/2016 at 10:47 |
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I’ve seen a few takeoffs and fly-bys, and the thing that always gets me is how slow it looks like it’s going. I once heard an old comment about the optical illusion of perceived speed — the time it takes for a vehicle to cover its own length. A Smartcar going 60mph looks like another car going 120mph, basically.
V12 Jake- Hittin' Switches
> My hovercraft is full of eels
03/03/2016 at 10:48 |
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I watched the AN225 take off once...wow
Justin Hughes
> Jcarr
03/03/2016 at 11:01 |
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The Galaxy is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to the Galaxy...”
DanimalHouse
> Jcarr
03/03/2016 at 11:01 |
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My friend and me, McChord AFB 2008. Big ol’ bird!!
ttyymmnn
> PanchoVilleneuve ST
03/03/2016 at 11:13 |
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Yes, but look at how many of them there are. They don’t have to be big, they just have to spread the load. They tried one huge wheel once on the B-36. Then they switched to multiple wheels.
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PanchoVilleneuve ST
> ttyymmnn
03/03/2016 at 11:24 |
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A lot of it comes from that episode of Amazing Stories I saw as a kid, where the guy was stuck in the ball turret of a B-17 and the landing gear wouldn’t come down so they had to do a belly landing and he was going to die but he drew a picture of the plane with big wheels and then magical cartoon wheels appeared and they landed safely.
Spielberg directed it and it had Kevin Costner and Kiefer Sutherland in it. It was great. But put a terrifying brain worm into a kid with anxiety problems.
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ttyymmnn
> PanchoVilleneuve ST
03/03/2016 at 20:19 |
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The Death of a Ball Turret Gunner , by Randall Jarrell
From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.