On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:05 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm with you, Igor. I live about 10 km south of Toronto's largest airport so > when the wind's from the north those big suckers fly over my house.
By us, we get the early morning flights coming over head, around 3-4 am. And we are well away from the airport. Mind you my house is only 2 km's from the westerly edge of the proposed Pickering airport, so thats a no on my ballot form. Dave > > When I was a kid living near Montreal's airport the biggest things flying > over were 707s and dc8s. Boy those straight jet engines were loud! > > Today's passenger jets are bigger, quieter and when on their landing approach > they seem to be going so ~slow~! It just doesn't seem possible that they > should be able to stay airborne at those speeds. > > Cheers, > frank > > --- Original Message --- > > From: Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> > Sent: December 30, 2011 12/30/11 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT: black box generated video of Hudson plane landing > > > > Amazing... > Thanks for sharing, Paul! > > Being a physicist, I understand what makes a plane flying. > However, I am always surprised that such a big piece of metal can fly. > (Especially when I am sitting inside of one.) > > Igor > > > On 30 December 2011 20:33, Paul Stenquist <pnstenquist at comcast.net> > wrote: >> Pretty amazing. It was apparently made using data from the black box >> that records flight data: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tE_5eiYn0D0#t=109 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
