Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Thursday, October 25, 2012

A Hard Slog Down the Runway

In Bodaybo, Russia.

4 comments:

LRod said...

I wonder what the takeoff weight of that one was after takeoff, with all that mud on the fuselage. CG, too, for that matter.

There are videos floating around of P-38s in the Aleutians during WWII that are very much like this.

LRod
ZJX, ORD, ZAU retired

Nangleator said...

If I was on board, looking out the window at that display, I'd be spraying mud into my pants at that rate, too.

Mark Rossmore said...

Gotta wonder what kind of strain that put on those long, skinny mains. I know those Antonovs are built like tanks, but there's a breaking point somewhere. The Dash-8/Q-400 series of airliners have a similar high wing/long gear configuration and have had a pile of gear failures. Had this video featured one of those, the plane would be making mud angels instead of altitude.

Comrade Misfit said...

It was probably an An-24 and those airplanes were built for rough/unimproved airstrips.