FYI: Dec 12 MythBusters: Airplane Hour

On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:33:15 -0600, cavelamb himself
wrote:



Can we drop it now?!

I already did.

"B A R R Y" wrote

If it were so cut and dried, why does it generate threads of several
hundred messages here? G

Just goes to show that there are a LOT of stupid people out there, posting
on usenet.

But we knew that, with Anthony as their posterboy. :-(
--
Jim in NC

Can we drop it now?!

I already did.

Drop what??
g
--
Jim in NC

Dallas wrote:
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 09:12:27 -0400, wrote:

and if the belt is running so the the wheels of the
aircraft are spinning madly while it stays still then again you
already know the answer. What are they trying to prove?

I guess there are still a couple of people out there that believe the
aircraft won't take off.


Add a pinch of gadfly and stir until frothy......... d:-)

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

Dana M. Hague d(dash)m(dash)hague(at)comcast(dot)net writes:

Somehow I doubt the Mythbusters budget runs to a real 747 flight...

A full-motion simulator would suffice to prove the point. If you can
land the sim, you can land the real thing.

Wrong again, fjukkwit.


Bertie

Dallas wrote in
:

On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 09:12:27 -0400, wrote:

and if the belt is running so the the wheels of the
aircraft are spinning madly while it stays still then again you
already know the answer. What are they trying to prove?

I guess there are still a couple of people out there that believe the
aircraft won't take off.



I'd be one of them.



Bertie

Dallas wrote in
:

On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 09:12:27 -0400, wrote:

and if the belt is running so the the wheels of the
aircraft are spinning madly while it stays still then again you
already know the answer. What are they trying to prove?

I guess there are still a couple of people out there that believe the
aircraft won't take off.



Ooops, disregard, misread it!


Bertie

"muff528" wrote in message
news:5EU6j.3756$rB1.1504@trnddc03...

Hang on!....Here we go again! :0)
TP


I have my seat belt and shoulder harness tightened, and I will try not to
make any sound.

Peter ;-)

Peter Dohm wrote:
"muff528" wrote in message
news:5EU6j.3756$rB1.1504@trnddc03...

Hang on!....Here we go again! :0)
TP


I have my seat belt and shoulder harness tightened, and I will try
not to make any sound.

Peter ;-)

Laughing is allowed...

I would be interested in knowing which airport that is. I know that they
have used Alameda and Hamilton in the past. Which airport are you referring
to?

Dale Alexander

"buttman" wrote in message
...
On Dec 8, 9:32 pm, Jim Logajan wrote:
"Jamie and Adam take wing to test if a person with no flight training can
safely land an airplane and if a plane can take off from a conveyor belt
speeding in the opposite direction. Tory, Grant, and Kari jump on some
Hollywood-inspired skydiving myths."

Quoted from the Discovery channel
schedule:http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-schedule...=1.13056.24704....

(My local paper's weekly TV schedule has just the brief summary "Landing
a
747" so I presume the plane they attempt to land without training is a
747.
Will be interesting to see if they try the real thing and are not limited
to a simulator.)

I'm really anxious to see this episode, because apparently they filmed
the treadmill myth at my home airport.