Friday, April 12, 2013

AWESOME Approach

Check this video out.

In just under 4 minutes, the pilots of this Dornier went from cruise to taxiing on the ground. They even beat the skydivers to the ground. The moment the last skydiver jumped out the pilots put the plane into an inverted dive straight downwards, flew just above treetop level, and did a really FAST APPROACH, SWEEPING TURN at nearly 90degree and set the plane down onto the runway without missing a beat (or overshoot, or crashing).

THAT IS AMAZING. And also, very dangerous. BUT AMAZING.

They dove straight after the last skydiver jumped but I found it scary that it looked like they were diving straight into those sky divers.



Another angle: