Helicopter Loses Control During Landing at Island Resort A helicopter carrying seven people spun out of control while trying to land at Fiji's Treasure Island resort. Facebook user Yang Yang was less than 20 feet from the terrifying spectacle. His video shows the helicopter touching down, then suddenly getting swept up in the air tail first. The sound of the chopper's blades can be heard slicing through the foliage as Yang and his companion run for safety. Amazingly, no was harmed in the ordeal. Watch it above.
Helicopter Landing On Ship In Rough Sea This video shows a landing conducted by a Prism Defence Test Pilot and Flight Test Engineer during development of Ship Helicopter Operating Limits for the Lynx Mark 90B helicopter onboard the KNUD RASMUSSEN class Offshore Patrol Vessel.
One of the biggest computational fluid dynamics simulation made on a super computer This is one of the largest CFD simulations ever, on the world's largest GPU server, the GigaIO SuperNODE, equipped with 32x AMD Instinct MI210 64GB GPUs, for a total of 2TB of VRAM. The simulation shows the Concorde (62m long) before landing at a speed of 300km/h and an angle of attack of 10°, for 1 second in flight. The span-based Reynolds number is 146 million.
Plane crashes on highway On Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, near Los Angeles, California, a single-engine passenger plane crashed on Highway 91 while making an emergency landing due to engine failure. The aircraft struck a van before igniting. Luckily, no one was hurt.
“The Professional” alternate ending The fans of the actor Jean-Paul Belmondo who died on 6th of September 2021, posted a video where the ending of the movie "The Professional" is altered. To the music of the great Ennio Morricone and almost half a century later, the protagonist does not die by the sniper. He still managed to get to the helicopter at the end...
Jeff Bezos in space with a Blue Origin rocket Tuesday, July 20, 2021, nine days after billionaire Richard Branson's space trip aboard Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity spacecraft, Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and the richest man in the world, also surrendered, accompanied 3 other passengers, in space aboard a capsule powered by the reusable New Shepard rocket from his company Blue Origin. Take-off took place from Launch Site One, the company's launch base located in West Texas, then the capsule was dropped at an altitude of 75 km to then slightly exceed 100 km in altitude, space border according to the International Aeronautical Federation. After 3 minutes of orbital flight, for a total flight of 11 minutes, the capsule made its return to Earth, braked by three parachutes and retro rockets. The New Shepard launcher also returned to a landing pad near the launch site.
Starship SN9 flight and crash SpaceX has tested the ninth Starship prototype in a row.
It is not yet known whether the landing accident was caused by low tank pressures than with the SN8, or something else.
Led by the standing ship SN10, which in turn, did not suffer any serious damage in the explosion.