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But without that.. I would have thought (as a layman) - is the plane doing anything to add vs cut drag? That could be a clue...
(from a toy perspective of how planes work in movies ofc).
Would that ever happen so soon after take off? I would think these stayed fairly horizontal until it’s known the plane won’t abort take off.
Do you think it's possible that Air Force One Pilots are instructed to land at unconventional spots on the runway to foil potential threats? Perhaps even to land at different spots on the runway on different landings? I know it sounds far-fetched, but my mom who was the "Cultural Affairs Officer" at the US Embassy in San Jose Costa Rica was instructed to take a different route from home to the embassy and back every…
Buried in the comments[1] is a jpg showing the sequence of multiple photos and one of the images has smoke from the tires landing : https://i.stack.imgur.com/QTrv2.jpg It's a fun mental exercise to know that the final answer is landing while reading the answers that forcefully argue that the plane is taking off . Some of the "evidence" to support that the plane is taking off is very persuasive. [1] https://aviation.s…
EDIT: From a different comment, it's clear that the photographer later found the whole series of pictures AFTER asking the question, and posted them online. So the photographer was confused, but later found the rest of his photos, which definitively show the plane LANDING. Case closed.
Do you think it's possible that Air Force One Pilots are instructed to land at unconventional spots on the runway to foil potential threats? Perhaps even to land at different spots on the runway on different landings? I know it sounds far-fetched, but my mom who was the "Cultural Affairs Officer" at the US Embassy in San Jose Costa Rica was instructed to take a different route from home to the embassy and back every…
No. It's hard enough to nail a landing to pick the "right spot" especially when you don't need it
If there's a threat on ground the best thing you can do is stay on air, not try to land on a different spot of the same runway (but yes, given some types of obstructions you can try to use only part of the runway, I'm not sure if they prefer you landing after it or in front of it, but I think the latter makes more sense - depending on the type and position of obstruction of course)
Do you think it's possible that Air Force One Pilots are instructed to land at unconventional spots on the runway to foil potential threats? Perhaps even to land at different spots on the runway on different landings? I know it sounds far-fetched, but my mom who was the "Cultural Affairs Officer" at the US Embassy in San Jose Costa Rica was instructed to take a different route from home to the embassy and back every…
My uninformed intuition would be that trying to land the plane differently each time would introduce more risk than it would protect against (and what threats would it even protect against?).
This is why I don't understand why people like to take photographs of planes. They look the same every time! (The same holds for cars).
Looking at the moon, that's one thing. But taking a picture of the moon? Go to NASA or Wikipedia for a great high-res picture.