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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).
I remember this showing up in the SO sidebar a long time ago (what a time-suck that thing is). At the time, I remember thinking that some of these people must be trolling - and I still do. For example, the people arguing that the wheels have already touched down. It seems abundantly obvious to me that the wheels have NOT touched down, and that the small strip of black asphalt running parallel to the wheels is a taxi-…
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I mean, people collect stamps, coins, and many other things that seem completely ridiculous and useless to me, why not collect pictures of planes. Chances are most of your hobbies are as ridiculous as that for most people out of the hobby
Almost no one starts a stamp collection in this day and age. It used to be done simply because there weren't as many forms of superior entertainment as there are now.
Previous discussion (2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13405121 .
> "There is motion blur on the traffic cone suggesting that camera was moving right and slightly down. There is no blur on the plane itself since the camera was locked to the plane's motion. So I deduce a landing photo."
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> 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? 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 t…
I politely disagree with you. Landings in an aircraft that you have flown for any length of time are not all that hard. In many cases I have been in aircraft that "land long" so as to not have to taxi 3 miles (literally) to get to the gate or parking area. I would imagine there is a bit of risk mitigation with AF1 as it relates to taxiing on the ground. As you state (correctly I surmise) the best place for AF1 to be…
I do not know the exact security bubble of the Secret Service, but I think you are mistaken. AF1 creates a bubble around it on the ground for everything: space, fuel, people, food, etc. They definitely control the area immediately around the plane. I would guess further than 1mi. Why? 50BMG can easily reach that far.
I remember this showing up in the SO sidebar a long time ago (what a time-suck that thing is). At the time, I remember thinking that some of these people must be trolling - and I still do. For example, the people arguing that the wheels have already touched down. It seems abundantly obvious to me that the wheels have NOT touched down, and that the small strip of black asphalt running parallel to the wheels is a taxi-…
I ended up installing this Chrome extension to block the "Hot Network Questions" parts of Stack Exchange because I found that I was getting distracted by them too often.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stack-block/oaimjd...
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I remember this showing up in the SO sidebar a long time ago (what a time-suck that thing is). At the time, I remember thinking that some of these people must be trolling - and I still do. For example, the people arguing that the wheels have already touched down. It seems abundantly obvious to me that the wheels have NOT touched down, and that the small strip of black asphalt running parallel to the wheels is a taxi-…
> I remember this showing up in the SO sidebar a long time ago (what a time-suck that thing is). I ended up installing this Chrome extension to block the "Hot Network Questions" parts of Stack Exchange because I found that I was getting distracted by them too often. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stack-block/oaimjd...
Had to do this as well because they were just too distracting.
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…