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Exiting a moving train. Great technique here, and I imagine he's nicely aided by the careful positioning of his load as he exits.
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Here we have the wrong way:
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And, when things go really bad:
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Or this way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR3ieozvU_U
I'm sure Jon is baiting me with cues like this.......
Those are almost toooo much fun in 2 posting...still giggling!
I wonder what was in his pocket to spontaneously cumbust A spray can of paint maybe?
Probably one of those E-cigarettes and a bottle of hootch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
I understand the hooch but would have never thought about an E cigarette since I've never been around anyone who had one of them. So I am not familiar with their function.
No one I know would be caught dead huffing on one A 3 dollar stogie maybe or real cigs.
I was thinking of a paint can scraping on the floor causing a spark when it ruptured.
With E cigarettes out of your purview, it was probably a poor joke on my part but only to further the fun Jon and TM51 started. There have been quite a number of LiPo batteries in E cigarettes spontaneously bursting into flames recently in peoples pockets and purses. Likely due to poor design and rash of poor quality LiPo's (poor QA on the polymer electrolyte and/or construction) coming from across the pond. They overheat due to internal shorts or too rapid charging or discharging and go off like a Roman Candle. Not necessarily funny as people have been seriously burned and hurt but the rain dance they do may be considered funny in some twisted circles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
The GIF of the guy getting off the subway was likely a hoax video, and a well done one imho, as I giggled out loud again today at it! Consider the relative size of the flames and explosion as part of the syllogism.
As for a cigar >$3; I consider a Macanudo Portofino a minimum, a Montecristo #2 torpedo as very good, and an optimum of a Bolivar Libertador - LCDH when I can get and afford them and usually imbibed with 20-40 year Presidential Port and some quality chocolate. Guess I've been caught dead, although never meeting in person...and have high hopes that I don't explode spontaneously now and be inclined to a spasmodic rain dance.
Been practicing my Johnsanese....:p
If those E cigs can spontaneously explode I'll stick with my pipe
No, he just had really bad gas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
"Exiting a moving train"
Buenos Aires, circa 1949 - I'm 9 . Excellent transportation infrastructure even then. A vast network of subways, streetcars, electric buses, and small buses, "colectivos", ~30? person vehicles. On all of them, drivers/conductors would open doors while still in motion. It was normal to get off while vehicle was stiil moving. My first exit on a subway (not yet acquainted with any physics) was to fall violently on my side - but no explosion (those came later). I soon learnt the method, and loved to exit running. On the little colectivos, often overfull, people would hang from either side handhold of the always open single front door. Same exit method if you were hanging on and yelled "esquina!" (corner!), driver would slow, and one would jump off. I loved it. Haven't been back - perhaps it's different there now.
When you go pro:
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As a pilot, my sympathies extend more to the guys in the Pilatus. Looks like they have to dive hard to meet the wingsuiters, who are posing a risk similar to a bird strike. The mountainous terrain also seems to lack a safe place to put the plane down in an emergency.
Wow! & I haven't even done a bungi jump. Looks like 007.
Yes that's my name, but not me. Hang gliding I'd do, along with wingsuiting. Plain old parachuting or skydiving doesn't seem nearly the thrill.
Gravity, darn it all.
Also, that's Frank S and I in the empty tourbillion seats, IYKWIM.
Roger That Jon! PC-6 (for a basic rabbit hole dive) is a pretty amazing STOL aircraft and those guys have angels on their wing tips for pulling off that stunt over mountains like that with winds gusts/shears and eddies and temp changes. Pilot SKILLs and then some! Wingsuiter's are pretty bodacious as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
Seeing what these birds can do at the hands of a good pilot...watch the movie "Air America" when they land on on a ~60° mountainside...and take off from it.
48 seconds.
https://youtu.be/vscvM8ysAwM
Don't think that was those two flyin' that bird! Tom Danaher from Wichita Falls, Texas...read the first posting below by Cherokee592...don't know for sure but sounds credible!
Well OK but afterwards I know of a great place to get some gourmet lime sherbet near thereQuote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
Is that Sherpa lime sherbet with Yak milk or Himalayan lime sorbet?Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
Any of the yak milk or goats milk varieties are just fine the Himalayan Sorbet is a lot more fruity with little to no dairy in it, I'm also quite fond of the Turkish and Arab lime and rose petal Sharbat
Ah yup, just clamp down with yer teeth, hold yer breath and wait ..... KABOOM!! straight up in the air and over yer head! No harm no foul .....:hattip:Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
Uh oh, we have some kind of a time warp or black hole or something, I posted this reply over on the "Exploding subway jumper" thread!!??!!
That's OK Clockguy PJs and I and a couple others frequently hijack these threads with a little bit of off handed humor
Hijack ? I thought I was hitchiking the IT galaxy or sumpin.
The Pilatus Porter is perfectly suited to the terrain - as is the L-19 Bird Dog i fly when towing sailplanes. After every glider drop-off comes the thrilling descent, 60 degree flaps, very nose down, just 70 knots so as to not crack cylinders from sudden cooling, close to very steep terrain, looking for mountain goats. Landing is on ancient flat river bed grass strip between two close parallel mountain ranges. As an erstwhile skydiver, I imagine that itś totally bland compared to flying a wingsuit into an aircraft.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
Dont think that either but very entertaining like my jack russell killing a king brown and stopping to bark to tell the pup to stay back and learn. LOL Fact: I cant speak doggie language but they JUST KNOW!Quote:
Originally Posted by PJs
I think it was just a Samsung phone...