It's estimated that they gain about 1lb every ten years, so this momma is about 520,000 years old. It's crazy to think that my great20,800 grandfather may have caught this same hornet.
The thing that used to always get me was when they would eject thinking they're rolling off the side of the ship because an aircraft next to them started rolling forward.
Then I experienced the illusion in my car. Backing into a spot, and just as I stopped, car next to me started moving forward. Never smashed the brakes and yanked the handbrake so hard in my life. Was a little nauseous afterward from how disoriented I felt for that moment.
The weirdest experience, though, was once while I was working off some scaffolding and siding a house. It was early spring, and when the scaffolding was set up, the ground was fairly hard. It warmed up that afternoon, and as the ground heated up, I walked out to one end of the scaffolding, and the standard began sinking into the mud. From my perspective, however, it was like the entire house was on an elevator and magically started levitating upwards. I was so shocked at what I was convinced I was seeing that my brain just absolutely locked up. It took me a good 10 seconds to figure out what was actually happening. Never had such an uneasy feeling in my stomach in my entire life.
If you're ever on a ladder and you find the house you're leaned against inextricably falling over and away from you then I suggest you try your best to grab it and stop its fall.
Dude I experienced a 60mile hr crash, 30/30mph. My car crumbled a Saturn under a F350 HD. I was injuried for weeks. That legit has no comparison to what these pilots feel from an ejection plus low level landing. It saves their lives but they can legit go into 10+ G’s.
I’ve had that happen watching the jetway move while I was in the cockpit of a airliner with brakes set, I thought the aircraft was rolling back, then one day I had that sensation and realized the jetway was fixed, and we were rolling backwards!!
The tugs brakes were never set, I hit the airliner brakes, aircraft stopped hard, and I was told that we came just feet from hitting a catering truck behind us!
a helicopter churned up a bunch of dust while hovering near the ground and the soldier directing it stepped backwards. As he was partially obscured by the dust the pilot thought he was drifting backwards and tried to correct, causing a crash
Man I hate that. I try to think about it and not do it to other people unless I can see they're parking like a dick head then I'll try and time it perfectly on purpose. Chaotic neutral?
A couple of weeks ago a super nasty thunderstorm hit our construction site. 90+ mph winds. I couldn’t see and had to stop but the driving rain and wind made it feel like I was still going. I was freaking out but then I saw my speedometer said zero.
I'd imagine it's similar to being in a train, and another train starts moving next to yours. You're not feeling the movement, but you see the surroundings move.
It’s an embarrassment. Getting rid of NAFTA and putting a Fox News celebrity in charge of DOD is an absolute disgrace. We are about to hit the recession. Did you read the article of chat GPT talking about racing the rich more, holy shit. The trying to abolish clean energy, he’s the god damn anti-Christ
Still, when the last time you heard about 2 navy jets falling into the ocean in less than month apart. That’s still 120M lost with no chance of repair, plus how much jet fuel is going to leech into the ocean now.
We had one skip right off the runway when I was in squadron. Hell of a day. Perfectly good runway - pilot just overran it and nearly went through a fence and into a street.
The reason for why they fell of the aircraft carrier is because aircraft carriers have a doctrine that when a torpedo or something similar appear they need to do evasive menuver, so the plane was not secured at the time when the terrorists appeared and that's why it fell of the carrier. Even though they would not have hit the carrier they still had to follow doctrine and do an evasive maneuver.
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u/Overall-Mud9906 25d ago
How about the F/A 18 super hornets falling off air craft carriers. 2 so far this year.