Straighten up and Fly Right!
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Couldn't resist these dramatic moments when a Deutsche Lufthansa A-320 airbus with 137 passengers on board attempts a landing in rough winds at Hamburg, Germany. The plane is forced to come in sideways, it attempts touchdown at 45 degrees to runway.
Then the the port undercarriage wheels hit the ground and bounce off, sending the plane up at an angle which pushes the port wing down to the runway. The wingtip clips the ground momentarily before the pilot is able to correct the tilt and bring the port wing up again, showering a cloud of debris and dirt as it does so.
The pilot manages to lift the plane up and despite buffeting winds to slowly gain ascent. He does another circuit and uses another runway for landing.
He does so by "inducing the plane" (quite an understatement in that kind of crosswind!) safely onto another runway where the winds were kinder.
Brilliant flying!
Monday, 3 March 2008
Holocaust Ok, Gaza! By Marwan Asmar Countercurrents.org
At last Israelis are coming out of their military-chauvinistic closet and having no qualms about using such words as the Holocaust to describe what they are doing or want to do to the Palestinians.
While many in Israel are saying it was unfortunate for the Israeli deputy defense minister to use such a word, only attributed to what the Nazis did to the Jews, such semantics can only describe the real feelings of many Israelis and their political-military masters and establishments who are prepared to create another Holocaust to deal with the people of Gaza.
Read it here
Arctic polar cap may disappear this summer
Xinhua China Daily Press
2008-03-01
OSLO -- The polar cap in the Arctic may well disappear this summer due to the global warming, Dr. Olav Orheim, head of the Norwegian International Polar Year Secretariat, said on Friday.
The shrinking of the Arctic ice cap has been astonishing, Orheim said in an interview with Xinhua.
Read it here
Sunday, 2 March 2008
US to Wither and Die!
http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article16672
Economic Collapse
"America is a war zone our people are being cannibalized before our very eyes. Looting and plundering the world is the primary goal of the criminal cabal that controls America."
http://www.new-enlightenment.com/econ_crash.htm
"The winning of freedom is not to be compared to the winning of a game – with the victory recorded forever in history. Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirits of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die." —
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954
Saturday, 1 March 2008
Afghanistan
Injection of troops and aid has not brought stability says intelligence chief
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