"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn)
10/05/2015 at 09:09 • Filed to: planelopnik, low, so low, low pass flyby
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"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn)
10/05/2015 at 09:09 • Filed to: planelopnik, low, so low, low pass flyby | 2
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I fired up Wikipedia to check something and they had a photo of the Su-30 on the homepage. Naturally I went to the article on the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and started looking through the pictures and saw this one. It is an amazing picture, but is it real?
“Sukhoi Su-30LL demonstrator flying along the runway at Zhangjiajie Hehua Airport less than 1 metre off the ground” by Xu Zheng - !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Commons -
My hovercraft is full of eels
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
10/05/2015 at 09:22 |
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No ‘shop... just Kvochur.
Sam
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
10/05/2015 at 09:29 |
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The SU-30 is just a strangely proportioned plane and the pilot is just really, really good at flying it.
davedave1111
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
10/05/2015 at 09:37 |
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Apparently not a shop, but that’s no way a meter from the ground - more like double that. Still fucking impressive flying.
jariten1781
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
10/05/2015 at 09:48 |
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The pilot really wanted a car. Cars are expensive in red countries, but military billets are handed out like candy. Got his wings and now he drives the plane like the car he dreams of.
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You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> davedave1111
10/05/2015 at 11:27 |
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I did some very crude measuring of the photo on my screen. It is just about 1m off the ground. The Su-30 is ~22m long and on the screen it is just about 197mm. It is difficult to judge exactly where the plane is above the runway, but my best guess measuring from the white line to the bottom of the lower extension on the vertical stabilizer is ~10mm. That puts the plane about 1.1m off the ground.
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davedave1111
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
10/05/2015 at 11:58 |
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I was just eyeing it. Look at the size of the pilot.
coqui70
> Sam
10/05/2015 at 20:31 |
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It only looks oddly proportioned because the Varitech gear forces some compromises ...