whew!! i sure am glad you didn't do that when i was bent over looking under your van! :eek:

this is WAY too cool!! some people were flying their model P-51 mustang which they accidentally crashed into the tree tops. A helicopter training flight (Robinson R-22) saw it happen and retrieved the P-51 for the folks....way cool!

warning: language, otherwise sfw.

That was wonderful!

... a fun video !

See what can happen when you turn disaster-planning over to private enterprise.

:D

Their friends will never believe them.

I swear, these two guys in a helicopter rescued my model from a tree top.

Yeah right, have another beer... you sure it wasn't Superman?

That's a couple of cool guys right there.

Verry Cool !!!!!

Monmouth service area on the Garden State Parkway here in New Jersey yesterday afternoon. That is the line for fuel.

Glad you checked in Woody. :thumb:

Thanks!!
Yeah we made it...but my town (Tuckerton) is ravaged. Along with every other coastal town. Sandy was one evil witch!

Here is a view from Sunday night high tide in Tuckerton

Gotta love TED:

Here is link to the story.

who was at fault? both actually. the driver of the SUV for not stopping and looking both ways and the pilot for coming in too low. it's arguable about his low approach. i fly a low approach quite often. but never when there is a road on the approach end of the runway. i'll make sure i have at least a 50' clearance if so and land a tad long.

I'm not a lawyer. But that looks like 100% pilot error from here. Maaaaybe there's a traffic signal on the road saying, planes have the right of way, but I've never seen one. The car's on the road, where cars belong. The plane's in the air, but where cars go. If the car had been on the runway, different story. Doesn't look like that from here though. I like the dialog "you pulled out in front of a plane!" wtf? A plane? I remember being trained to look for the kid chasing the ball from between parked cars but not being attacked from the sky.

It looks like everybody's probably ok, I sure hope so.

Yeah everyone was ok for the most part. Driver of the SUV got a couple staples in his head.

I can see your point of view on this but anytime a road passes in front of a runway threshhold the plane has the right of way. Driver, in this case, is an avid visitor of the airport there and should have known to look both ways before crossing the approach path. Meh, i still say they were both at fault.

I will pull out the FAR's and have a look...(faa regs)

Oh. My. God. :cry: (happy tears, of course)

Yeah V i totally agree with ya there...pretty cool breakthrough! Reminds me of the movie Awakenings with DeNiro and Williams using L-dopa to wake up the patients. (Illness escapes me now, on phone and too tired to look it up)

Oh, i did find an advisory circular from the FAA but it had to do with vehicles operating on the airport for the airport. Any rate...it did say all planes have the right of way unless otherwise specified by air traffic control (with operations at a towered airport)

It's a private road but there's a stop sign(painted on pavement) on both sides of the runway.

I agree that the vehicle is much better equipped to stop than the airplane is. And regardless of the "right of way", no one wants a collision, this wasn't some air to ground game of chicken. If the kid jumped out from between cars, I'd fucking dynamite the brakes--despite the fact that I have the right of way (assuming I did have the right of way). Not only am I not a lawyer, I am no pilot either (though I do have a new honorific, TBA) but that just looked like he came in too low. I just don't know that I'd be thinking, "Ooooh, better watch out for airplanes."

I think the car was most at fault but I don't know what the legalities are about stop signs on private roads, especially when it's painted on the road instead of the normal octagon. I found out in PA the cops can ticket you for blowing a stop sign in a mall parking lot.:eek:

Huh. You mean like at approximately the spot on the road where the suv appears to be in the still of the vid? Like, kind of in line with the windsock? That might change my mind some. I'll change my position to shared fault. OF COURSE the driver didn't think, ooooo, I'll just beat the plane. He just didn't see the plane, probably because he didn't look for the plane.

I was thinking for myself that I wouldn't see the plane because I wouldn't look for the plane because I've been driving a LONG time and I just never look out for planes. God knows how many close calls I've had!!

He did kind of a rolling stop, probably glancing to his right to see if there was a plane taking off.

Small point of order, you wouldn't have the right of way. By definition, pedestrians always have the right of way, even if they're jaywalking.

Actually, now that I think about it, I can only say for certainty that this is true in Texas. But I bet it's true everywhere. You can't have a law that even implies it might be okay to hit someone in certain circumstances. Better to make it always illegal, and then use legal discretion to not bring charges against the driver when it was clearly unavoidable.

Dumb Ways to Die
 

That is excellent!

dumb was never so smart!

poonikins the magic warrior princess
 

Ahh, I'm not sure I'm gonna watch Poonikins. It's got Charlie the Unicorn and Candy Mountain written all over it.

No way.

Think GTA. Grand Theft Arabian.

Cool Things to Find
 

This is a parody of the Dumb Ways to Die video.

Hey, I represent that. :p:

Soviet style.

This made me laugh!

I keep watching that and it makes me want a kitty more and more.

hilarious!

Earth at Night
 

Fucking Snoop Lion!?!

I feel... blessed... that I was view number 302. Wow, those guys are reaaaaallllly talented.

I think Santa won though. :santa:

but Snoop!

http://vimeo.com/18235468

wow, that was very beautiful, thank you ZenGum.

My sister was sitting there watching youtube with my nephew one day when they stumbled upon this video. My sister found it hilarious and called me over to watch. I wasn't sure how my nephew felt but he wasn't laughing watching it. I had to remind my sister that it wasn't appropriate for my nephew. She found it so funny that she forgot about the youngster sitting next to her. :p:

This just really made me smile
Because they are so obviously having a blast, and the singer has such a beautiful voice.

So of course I had to look up a translation. Which cracked me up even more - the bit about having a poo especially.
Courtesy of https://gist.github.com/3287190
Knockout.

I showed my son the Dumb Ways to Die video when it was first posted here, and he's got all the boys in his 5th grade singing it now. It's the ear worm of the moment with his group of friends.

I find that highly amusing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjQ2BeqVYhQ

I'm not so into poetry performances, but this was worth it. 15-year-old kid wins the NPR "Snap Judgment" Performance of the Year for 2012:

Thanks Clodfobble. I enjoyed that the first couple times I heard it on the radio, and seeing the young man enjoy telling it made it even better. I like the big hug from the host at the end.

**sniff**

Helmet cam footage from one of those crazy bastards who runs toward fires. :eek:

Yeah, the soundtrack sucks.

I so wanted that to be genuine. (Is that wrong?)

But it ain't.

awesome Magic trick anyone can do:

http://i.imgur.com/KEgLc.gif

Hahahahahaha. Hahahahaha. It's the expression on his face at the end. Hahahahahaha.

NOTICE: This post is from the future. Probably Friday night.
 

V: "Hey Twil! How would you like to see a neat magic trick?"

Twil: "A magic trick? Ok."

V: "I'll need a volunteer from the audience."

Twil: (raises hand)

V: "You there, pretty young lady in the front, come on up here girls."

(insert trick here)...

V: (with my straightest possible face) "Wait, that didn't work out right, let me try that one again."

Twil: (laughing) "Riiiiiight."

Looks like I might need to break into her eyeliner before hand.

UPDATE
 

Was chatting with Twil tonight, here's an excerpt from the transcript:

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAA!!!!

:lol:

You'd want a good disappearing trick if you did that to strangers in public.

Huge Bear Surprises Crew on EcoBubble Photo Shoot
 

Have to go to the link to see this one. :blush:

http://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/201...eve-cutts.html