Is this real?
05-14-2006 | 05:07 AM
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Is this real?
Click the link below (it's safe, I promise) for some funny / amazing / sad pics of a GV that I just found. I apologize if this has been posted before, but I couldn't resist.
http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles...+business.html
http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles...+business.html
05-14-2006 | 08:26 AM
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I've worked with photoshop over 10 years, if those photos are "shopped" who ever did it has some skills! I'd say "real".
It's not uncommon to see asphalt "get soft" in the heat, and if the ground below is unstable it could lead to sinking. Florida for example is full of limestone sinkholes created from the inside out. I can see this type of thing happening there.
Bummer
It's not uncommon to see asphalt "get soft" in the heat, and if the ground below is unstable it could lead to sinking. Florida for example is full of limestone sinkholes created from the inside out. I can see this type of thing happening there.
Bummer
05-14-2006 | 12:24 PM
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I've never seen an incident as bad as that, but I have seen a Citation sink into the asphalt up to the top of the rims on the mains up at a podunk airport in ND before.
Definately possible if the temp is hot enough... and a Gulfstream certainly has the weight to displace asphalt.
Definately possible if the temp is hot enough... and a Gulfstream certainly has the weight to displace asphalt.
06-03-2006 | 11:51 PM
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Sorry to bring this up so late. A very similar incident happened in KSLC last summer with a 727 on the general aviation ramp. Hot day, they started loading it, and the right mains sunk into the pavement. Then in the process of trying to unload it, they messed up and the tail ended up sitting on the pavement also. So here's this crooked 727 with it's nose up in the air.. quite the site for a few days. Wish I had a pic. I'll ask around and see if my friends got one.
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