Big plane, short runway

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meh...when we launch gliders the guy holding the wing is signaling the tow pilot with his other arm and running much farther down the runway than that.

Fashion, like most pursuits that require some narcissism on someone's part (music, theater, art), has plenty of scope to exploit people at both ends of the runway...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/learnvest/2012/09/21/the-finances-and-career-prospects-of-being-a-model/

That's a point... add a catapult and a net and you could have much shorter runways.

RUNWAY?? WE DONT NEED NO STINKING RUNWAY
http://videosift.com/video/Short-Landing-and-Take-off

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Fast & Furious (which is part 4) was the first step in the right direction as the first in the series to start a transition, although only marginally, out of a fun-but-really-stupid category of action flick. Tokyo Drift was definitely the worst of them. (I'm just hoping the tie-in with part 7 and the return of Lucas Black will somehow make up for its existence; introducing us to Han's back story in Fast Five helped.)

Fast Five was the first good flick on its upswing toward world domination because it was much less dumb, but had a much richer story, better characters, incredible practical effects, a huge, diverse cast, and awesome international settings. This was the first time it was much more kick-ass than pure roll-your-eyes-and-sigh maximum-dumb-shitatude accompanying the action.

Fast & Furious 6 continued to prove they were onto a winning formula and continued that trend. (However, there's a fucking-stupid ~9 minute fight on an airplane WHILE it is driving at near-takeoff speeds on a runway. I did some calculations the last time I watched it and remember thinking they had to be on like a 20-mile-long runway. Come on guys, it's called editing; or at least have some phony excuse for that bullshitestry. But I digress.)

One of the most compelling parts of both parts 5 and 6 were some kick-ass (though of course impossible) practical stunt sequences that may have been the first I've seen as a fully-grown man to earn me a visceral ear-to-ear grin and cause me to unintentionally, audibly say "Holy shit!" in the movie theater.

Can't wait for part 7 and I hope they are able to just keep churning them out, despite the unfortunate loss of Paul Walker because these are some seriously ass-kicking action flicks.

Nadia Reid "Runway".
It's listed at the end of the video!

Ehh.. I disagree. While personally I think it's better that it happened this way than risk it, I think there was tons of room. The obstructing plane is basically off the track by the time the landing plane kicks back into gear, and that's with him revving the engines back up to get enough lift to take back off.

The key thing here isn't if he had enough space though, it's WHO THE FUCK LET A PLANE CROSS ON A LIVE RUNWAY?!

Someone is at fault for going here, weather it's the traffic controller for giving the green light, the pilot (obstructing plane) for just going, or the Pilot (landing plane) for landing too soon, someone somewhere fucked up that one.

I know that long lenses can compress a scene (so it makes the two planes look closer than they are) but even taking this into account that's way too close. The plane crossing the runway would still be on the runway when the plane landing touched down. They were probably less than ten seconds from a collision.

Something tells me that sign about 40-50 feet from the runway says "DON'T GO PAST THIS SIGN, YOU FOOL."

It looks to me like there's a sign up the beach (50 feet or so) that probably informs readers of the danger of being at the end of a runway.

It looked like wind to me. If you look closely, just before he gets within about 400 or so yards from the first line of people you can see the backside of the plane getting pushed downward. It seems to keep getting pushed down for a bit after it starts (like two-three seconds). I imagine he freaked out a bit at first being so close to the runway (I assume, as he was so low and going relatively slow), but increased throttle a bit and evened things out...

But, man, that fence was getting pretty damned close and we have no idea where the runway was (if there was one on the other-side, but since it was labelled as "approach" I'm assuming there was one on the other-side).

But anyway, I'd say it was skill and a good recovery from a very nasty wind shear at a VERY horrible time.

Fun how uneven and bumpy the runway seems from that angle.

I figure a good portion of the problem is the fact the runway isn't remotely flat.