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Stunning: Video Shows Icelandair 767 Taking Off On Antarctic Glacial Ice Runway
Simple Flying ^
| 2 March 2021
| Chris Loh
Posted on 03/02/2021 1:07:22 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: SamAdams76
“If there is sufficient amount of flat surface, an airplane has decent chance of landing and taking off from such a surface.”
A sufficient amount of surface is need for any surface for there to be sufficient chance of landing or taking off...successfully. Snow does not change that equation. There must always be a sufficient amount not matter the surface.
And it doesn’t have to be flat.
To: FreedomNotSafety
I knew I would get a response. This is good. It shows we have our thinking caps on.
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posted on
03/02/2021 3:02:09 PM PST
by
SamAdams76
(By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
its summer in the southern Hemisphere
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posted on
03/02/2021 3:11:32 PM PST
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markman46
(engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
To: crusty old prospector
Iceland’s fleet used to be all 757s, but the plane in the article is definitely a 767 for no other reason that a 757 does not have the range required for the route that was flown. It may be that they have some 767s for charter flights.
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posted on
03/02/2021 3:22:31 PM PST
by
Boiler Plate
("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
To: crusty old prospector
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posted on
03/02/2021 3:24:57 PM PST
by
Boiler Plate
("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
To: Boiler Plate
Good thing that it was not Emirates. Their plane would have melted.
To: DUMBGRUNT
I’m so stunned I’m going to bed now. Cannot take anymore stunning.
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posted on
03/02/2021 4:43:01 PM PST
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slouper
(LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
To: slouper
—”I’m so stunned I’m going to bed now. Cannot take anymore stunning.”
I do hope it does not prevent getting a good night’s sleep?
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posted on
03/02/2021 5:12:59 PM PST
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DUMBGRUNT
("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
I want to see a cross-wind landing...
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posted on
03/03/2021 5:44:11 PM PST
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Does so
(The Media is the enemy of the people...Trial lawyers close behind...)
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