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Offline Selino631

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C-17 creates a waterspout?
« on: September 10, 2009, 05:12:31 PM »
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Offline Rino

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Re: C-17 creates a waterspout?
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2009, 05:31:46 PM »
     Seen it happen with many aircraft, many times.
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Re: C-17 creates a waterspout?
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2009, 07:05:18 PM »
Yeah, it's pretty common actually.
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Offline Selino631

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Re: C-17 creates a waterspout?
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2009, 07:38:14 PM »
Quote from: Dago on September 10, 2009, 07:05:18 PM
Yeah, it's pretty common actually.
aww u guys make me feel dumb...... :cry
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Offline Fender16

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Re: C-17 creates a waterspout?
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2009, 07:42:37 PM »
Plane was merely thirsty, that's all.
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Re: C-17 creates a waterspout?
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2009, 07:53:21 PM »
Even prop planes will create a mini one. Cool vid anyway.
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Re: C-17 creates a waterspout?
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2009, 08:36:32 PM »
Quote from: Selino631 on September 10, 2009, 07:38:14 PM
aww u guys make me feel dumb...... :cry
I've never seen this, for lack of better word, phenomenon. Nifty video, thanks.
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Offline Banshee7

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Re: C-17 creates a waterspout?
« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2009, 09:12:40 PM »
I find it odd that I was just watching that video the other night...
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Offline Phaser11

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Re: C-17 creates a waterspout?
« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2009, 09:36:23 PM »
Hey!
Remember when KC-135's had water injection to give the engines more thrust! Man those were the days, they would go to "water" and the hold hanger would shake!
wow that was a long time ago...... :confused:
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Offline Denholm

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Re: C-17 creates a waterspout?
« Reply #9 on: September 10, 2009, 09:59:26 PM »
Watch some videos of B777s departing Manchester. No water on the ground, but it will generate a similar effect in the right conditions.

EDIT: Here's an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a80ark8Rpsk
« Last Edit: September 10, 2009, 10:22:08 PM by Denholm »
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Re: C-17 creates a waterspout?
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2009, 06:57:57 AM »
Never saw that before despite being in and around aircraft for most of my working life. Mind you I don't usually stand so close to jet intakes. The video taken at Manchester was interesting. The 777 is fascinating. But watching any airliner line up and take off is interesting, to me anyway despite the fact that they have long since lost their mystique.

On another point, the person who posted that video on youtube is technically breaking British law. It is in fact illegal to listen in on ATC in the UK and certainly illegal to post it on youtube. Having said that, it's probably the most broken British law in history, given the number of spotters in the UK.
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Re: C-17 creates a waterspout?
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2009, 07:38:04 AM »
That is a pretty neat deal there. I had no idea that a jet engine would cause such a thing.

This one is pretty cool though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbLEOS2UKl4&NR=1&feature=fvwp
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Re: C-17 creates a waterspout?
« Reply #12 on: September 11, 2009, 08:14:03 AM »
Quote from: Selino631 on September 10, 2009, 07:38:14 PM
aww u guys make me feel dumb...... :cry

     Hey Selino, don't lose that child-like sense of wonder, keeps life
interesting.  Just cause others have seen it before doesn't mean you
shouldn't find it interesting.
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Re: C-17 creates a waterspout?
« Reply #13 on: September 11, 2009, 10:08:56 AM »
Quote from: cpxxx on September 11, 2009, 06:57:57 AM
Never saw that before despite being in and around aircraft for most of my working life. Mind you I don't usually stand so close to jet intakes. The video taken at Manchester was interesting. The 777 is fascinating. But watching any airliner line up and take off is interesting, to me anyway despite the fact that they have long since lost their mystique.

On another point, the person who posted that video on youtube is technically breaking British law. It is in fact illegal to listen in on ATC in the UK and certainly illegal to post it on youtube. Having said that, it's probably the most broken British law in history, given the number of spotters in the UK.

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Re: C-17 creates a waterspout?
« Reply #14 on: September 11, 2009, 02:31:34 PM »
Quote from: Rino on September 11, 2009, 08:14:03 AM
    Hey Selino, don't lose that child-like sense of wonder, keeps life
interesting.  Just cause others have seen it before doesn't mean you
shouldn't find it interesting.
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