and the RR engines kept on humming
Posted on 06/06/2018 9:52:44 AM PDT by C19fan
That’ll buff right out.
Freudian Slip..... Good Catch...
Been traveling all day and ready for some sleep. Still in Rome Airport.
Coming back from an Italian vacation ? Lucky ewe.
We were in his brand-new Trans AM. We hit a bad ass thunderstorm with hail near Desert Center.
Totaled the car. Every square inch of the top surface of the car was dented. The windshield was smashed but intact.
It was a very scary experience because there was no place to get under cover.
There was 8" of hailstones on the ground by the time the storm moved on. Looked like wintertime in the middle of summer.
So much for our long, holiday weekend. We spent most of it in a gas station in Desert Center waiting for his brother to rescue us and tow the car.
Does anyone think for one New York minute that Airplane could be made today?
It was a GREAT movie, and is just as funny (maybe more so) now than it was then, BECAUSE you couldn’t make it in today’s toxic environment.
I doubt very many movies from the 70s and 80s could get made today.
Too many stereotypes to get past the PC censors today..............
and the RR engines kept on humming
Not yet... headed to Helsinki, Finland today, then Krakow, then Budapest.... then Vienna, lots more, then Rome, then Switzerland and back to the USA mid July. Started this jaunt in May.
Sounds great. Never been to Europe. Enjoy the rest of your jaunt. ;-)
It is still a beautiful place and for the most part, the people are really great.
I was on an American Airlines flight from St. Lewis to Colorado Springs in 1994 when we had to detour around a major supercell storm. We hit some terrible turbulence during which the flight crew were ordered to sit and buckle up. We bounced sideways, we fell thousands of feet, drinks and food went flying. I thought I was going to have to pick my chicken off the ceiling!
After a few bad bouts of bouncing, the plane acended to 42 thousand feet, and things smoothed out for the rest of the flight.
I’d had a premonition about that flight. It was replacing a flight, not sure why, and we were offered yet a different flight which would arrive in Springs several hours later. But I had family who had to travel for hours to get to that airport and I had no way of letting them know I might be late. So, I went ahead and took that earlier replacement flight. It was my opinion that if this was going to be my final day, then there was no stopping it.
We arrived 10 minutes early. The flight crew was available to talk with whomever wanted to ask questions. I just wanted off that plane!
One of the attendants did tell me that we fell around 7thousand feet. That they are never told to sit and buckle up. All of them were white/grey and had tight lips, they shook. I guess they all thought we were done for.
When I came to the terminal, my 4yr old granddaughter was waiting for me with my husband. She ran to me with arms wide open and jumped into my arms, all the while screaming out gramma, gramma! I thought I’d never see you again! My plane fellows heard that and we all exchanged looks...the child didn’t know how close we came.
It was amazing to me how quiet all the passengers were thru the ordeal. It was only when things went flying that any cries or gasps occurred. We we’re all scared.
Thank you for sharing. Events like that turn atheists into praying God seekers..
” It was my opinion that if this was going to be my final day, then there was no stopping it.” That’s how I live every every day. I’ve often just imagined that I was on a roller coaster during rough flights and it brings a smile to my face.
I am surprised the article didn’t blame “climate change” for the hail.
From the radar/path pictures it looks like they may have flown under an anvil, with hail blowoff from the tops of a strong cell. You don’t have to fly into the cell to get damage if you’re downwind from a strong cell — the hail goes out the top and downwind, sometimes for many miles, in the dozens of miles, perhaps.
They couldn’t choose an upwind path around them but looks like they took the wrong hole through the line — should have taken the one further south.
Once they lost the radar the danger may have been even worse, they were flying blind unless they emerged from the clouds and could see the weather.
There are at least three documented cases of jetliners breaking up flying through storms, this could have been much worse, as they avoided the strongest areas of the cells.
No pics of the leading edges but I imagine that’s going to employ the sheet metal shop for weeks, or more!
Neither can airliners, when the nasties are higher than 50,000 feet.
Damned if they do, damned if they don't, if the cabin is pierced at too high an altitude, and it loses pressurization, the passengers may lose consciousness before the airliner can safely descend below 10,000 feet.
Or worse...
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