Microburst incident at USAF Academy airfield

[craz07]

Haha if we only really knew tho.. 

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

Aliens.


I am still not fully understanding how a aircraft can be "lifted" into the air, while yards away a crew of people can hold onto a glider and not be pushed or swept away. none of those humans showed much signs of being hit by major wins that could send a human tumbling or being "blown away" yet those other planes took off. Anyone have any video of the other aircraft crashing? Did they fly away? did they "land"?

I must know.


Either way i don't think it a hoax because no engine spat out exhaust. But the humans never reacted or moved as if they were in hurricane type winds. Maybe just perfect conditions for such a thing.

[Zoney]

Aliens.


I am still not fully understanding how a aircraft can be "lifted" into the air, while yards away a crew of people can hold onto a glider and not be pushed or swept away. none of those humans showed much signs of being hit by major wins that could send a human tumbling or being "blown away" yet those other planes took off. Anyone have any video of the other aircraft crashing? Did they fly away? did they "land"?

I must know.


Either way i don't think it a hoax because no engine spat out exhaust. But the humans never reacted or moved as if they were in hurricane type winds. Maybe just perfect conditions for such a thing.

The "Laws of Physics" are a wonderful thing and within them lies the answers to your questions.

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

If it involves more then cracking a beer, count me out.

[cpxxx]

Aliens. I am still not fully understanding how a aircraft can be "lifted" into the air, while yards away a crew of people can hold onto a glider and not be pushed or swept away. none of those humans showed much signs of being hit by major wins that could send a human tumbling or being "blown away" yet those other planes took off. Anyone have any video of the other aircraft crashing? Did they fly away? did they "land"?

Airplanes are designed to fly, humans are not. Those aircraft are Piper Super Cubs. I'm not sure what engines the USAF academy use in theirs but they are well overpowered so they can tow gliders, probably 180hp. They can take off at very low airspeeds and with the windspeed they were experiencing they would virtually lift off vertically. Except for the unlucky guy who got to take off downwind!

[Ratsy]

Angle of incidence!

J3 is on a tail wheel = positive angle of incidence of the wing to the relative wind.  Vertical stab is a weather vane.

Sailplane is wing down to the relative wind with a bunch of baggy green things laying on it =  reinforced negative angle of incidence.

This is scientifically demonstrated any time after 10AM at every R/C flying field in Texas.   

Dude - where's my plane?

 

[pipz]

If it involves more then cracking a beer, count me out.