Last Call- Slamming on the Brakes Edition
Boeing’s C-17A is one of the few aircraft today that is able to deploy reverse thrust in-flight, allowing for rapid descents and mass crew butt puckers. It’s able to create some amazingly bizarre effects on the ground as well.
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I've seen those vortices coming UPS planes too. Guess that's why FOD is such a hazard.
That plane is crazy +2.
All right, hoons. At what abandoned racetrack was this commercial shot? Right at the beginning I catch something that looks like "Boston Motor Speedway" on the wall, but this is definitely abandoned, and the South Boston Motor Speedway isn't? Was there a speedway north of it that's growing trees in the stands?
Great commercial, if only for the track.
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Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Georgia_Racew…
Thanks, amigo.
I don't think that vortex is purely a function of the reversers…they don't actually push air back out the front of the engine (it's still ingesting air normally), but instead they funnel the thrust sideways and slightly forward. I think what you're seeing here is just a result of high-throttle application at low speed and high humidity. You can get these vortices on carrier decks pretty frequently, too, since those guys are going WOT while stationary in the catapult.
tl;dr – sweet!
tl;dr2 – nice to see this site still going!
Welcome back Ash why don't you come and stay awhile
Holy shit, it's Ash78!
ASH!!! Psst: http://hooniverse.com/2012/02/06/hooniverse-class… Show us how it's done again!
*waves hi*
Seriously, it's great to see you again.
Finally unblocked?
dude….where the hell you been? we so missed you. can you hang out for a bit?
You should hang. It's a lot harder to get COTD's here, since we ain't got any.
What it looks like to me is the short landing scared the piss out this engine too.
I got an incentive flight in one of those once. Imagine flying along at 300 knots, 250 feet above the ground, 100 feet to your right is a cliff that is about 400 feet high, and you're following the course of a small river, making every single turn the river makes. And you're doing all this in a gigantic cargo plane. It's freaking awesome.
And yeah, landing with reverse thrusters- that's pretty sweet, too.
had the pleasure of a combat landing in one of those…
normal flight>hard bank>nose straight down>last second pull up>plant the ass(to make the wheels stick)