result of a pipeline explosion

Date 12-30-2008 21:20

These are from a site I visit daily, very entertaining. But some adds and links are NSFW.

Amazing pictures of the result of using a post hole digger without calling the utilities.

http://www.ehowa.com/features/callbeforeyoudig.shtml

A guy performs a dead stick (no engine) take off and travels down 1500' for a distance of 2 miles, lands perfectly.

http://www.ehowa.com/youtubemovie.shtml?movie=z985xdXW-3w

By ctacker (****)

Date 12-30-2008 22:13

are you into all the porn there too? :)

By hogan

Date 12-30-2008 22:52

I typically skip those sections, honestly. When I started here I was informed about our company Internet policy "There is no Internet policy". So it is not an issue to check out this site at work. But I did want to warn others that might have restrictions

By ctacker (****)

Date 12-30-2008 23:09

Not sure what NSFW means, I'm just glad my boss didn't walk in on me while checking it out( not the porn,but your links),lol
I got all the porn out of my system 20 some years ago when it first got big!

By hogan

Date 12-30-2008 23:11

Not Safe For Work

By leterburn (**)

Date 12-31-2008 04:27

"most" light planes have a glide ratio of 8-10:1.... 1500' would be nearly 3 miles given a 10:1 ratio, well within safe gliding distance. Some have more, you can hear the wind change as he's coming in to land.. typical of slipping the plane a little to burn off excess altitude to make the landing zone... in fact, in the vid clip you can see he had plenty of landing opportunity prior to actual touchdown as well. Would definitely be a rush...... I love flying - way more than welding! Lucky

By Josh Flynn (**)

Date 12-31-2008 13:20

what kind of airplanes do you fly?

By leterburn (**)

Date 12-31-2008 13:46

flown all kinds... learned in cub, had newer tcraft, great lakes, waco, chipmunk, etc - lot of fun

By Josh Flynn (**)

Date 12-31-2008 19:16

I always flew in cessna, My grandpa had a super cub and aronica champ. Dont make them like thaat any more.

By leterburn (**)

Date 01-01-2009 18:23

yep... still do, better than ever too - cubcrafters makes super cubs - and well, the aeronca - they do make citabrias still - american I believe is the manufacturer - haven't kept up on those however. There are others out there too that still make cub replicas - but yeah.... flying is loads of fun!