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Airbus A330 appears to hover in midair

submitted by eric3579

1 decade 3 years 2 weeks ago

This is what happens when a 230-ton Airbus A330 has the right angle of attack, the right low speed and the right amount of head wind: it gets suspended in the middle of the sky for a few seconds.

10 Comments

Hmmm... I suspect these guys might have been responsible for this

Ah. That must be the difference between air speed and ground speed.

brave pilot, flying on the edge of stall like this. and there's no ejection seats in an airbus ...

This is how we land a commercial passenger jet on an aircraft carrier...

MonkeySpank says...

Headwind is your friend - it's like riding a bike with training wheels.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'airbus, a330, fly, hover' to 'airbus, a330, fly, hover, headwind, airspeed vs groundspeed' - edited by calvados

Tags for this video have been changed from 'airbus, a330, fly, hover, headwind, airspeed vs groundspeed' to 'airbus, a330, fly, hover, headwind, airspeed vs groundspeed, relative wind' - edited by calvados

That's pretty scary.

My rc planes do this all the time. It's not scary though. If I were that pilot I would have shit myself. He did a good job keeping the plane in the air though.

dag

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

I think we determined the last time around that this was an example of the parallax effect.

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