Amazing take-offs and landings right now at DFW Airport

[78X]

with this wind. just drove by and saw an MD-80 take off sideways (tilted) due to the wind. 747 just landed crabbing back and forth.

[94form2000z]

I would hate to be on those planes..

[78X]

yea no shit, that one taking off sideways was cool as shit to watch, but must have been terrifying.

it was at a greater angle than this one-

[Unicorn Jeff]

I don't know what the fuck it was maybe a C-17 or something? It was a HUGE fucking plane make a couple passes over Alliance Airport.

[motoman]

I don't know what the fuck it was maybe a C-17 or something? It was a HUGE fucking plane make a couple passes over Alliance Airport.

Possibly, the Air Power Expo is this weekend at the joint reserve base. I'm wanting to say they'll have a Globemaster there.

[Unicorn Jeff]

Possibly, the Air Power Expo is this weekend at the joint reserve base. I'm wanting to say they'll have a Globemaster there.

Want want to say it was bigger then that, but I could be wrong. It was right around 1pm so the sun didn't help.

[78X]

here is the globemaster- bigger than this?

[Strychnine]

I'll be landing at Love in a bit. Flying out of Louisville in an hour and it's windy as hell here also. Yaaaaay.

[Leah]

I'll be landing at Love in a bit. Flying out of Louisville in an hour and it's windy as hell here also. Yaaaaay.

Oh, damn. Good luck, Matt!

[jason07]

I loooooovvvvvveeee C-17's!

[Unicorn Jeff]

here is the globemaster- bigger than this?

Yeah I looked it up already, and I wanna say it was. But the back end did look the same.

[78X]

Yeah I looked it up already, and I wanna say it was. But the back end did look the same.

C-5 Galaxy?

[Strychnine]

Oh, damn. Good luck, Matt!

Double Wild Turkey and water Free drinks make turbulence fun (and lets the control freak in me ease up a bit lol)


I fly enough that it doesn't bother me much. The one time I landed in Houston as a tropical storm was rolling in was fucking stupid though. Sideways jolts, not up and down. I watched peoples' heads hit the windows and stuff.

[no4njnk]

I will see if I can find a youtube video of landings in I think Venezuala. Apparently when they designed the airport they forgot to account for crosswinds, its pretty damn impressive what these pilots can do with those big ole planes.

[BERNIE MOSFET]

C5? Those are very popular at airshows.

C17s are always going in and out from the JRB, could easily have been one.

Sidebar - when I worked at Vought, I heard a great story about when a C17 was undergoing military flight testing. They had to repair the horizontal stabilizers because the test pilot managed to bend them upwards significantly while in flight. No word on how, just that it had been done.