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Crushable Runway Technology Saved Mike Pence's Plane (cnn.com)
Mike Pence, Donald Trump's running mate said Friday he is "fine" following his plane skidding off the runway at LaGuardia Airport on Thursday night, adding there were about 10 seconds of "uncertainty." The Indiana governor said, "It was about 10 seconds of uncertainty last night, but we're just so grateful to the pilots and to the first responders on the scene and (that) everybody came off the plane safely." From a CNN report: The press pool in the back of the aircraft, a Boeing 737-700 chartered from Eastern Airlines that was painted with the campaign's logo, could also feel the plane fishtailing as it touched down and slid off the runway before coming to a very sharp halt in the grass off the side of the runway. Once the plane came to a full stop, the Indiana governor walked to the back of the plane to check on the press. As everyone on board deplaned, Pence could be seen speaking with emergency responders. Donald Trump said, I just spoke to our future vice president, and he's OK. Do you know he was in a big accident with the plane?" A report on Business Insider explains how "crushable runway technology" saved Pence's plane: The positive resolution to a potentially disastrous event can be attributed to the Engineered Material Arresting System located at the end of the runway. The system is designed to prevent a runaway airplane from careening into the roads, buildings, and bodies of water commonly found near many airports. EMAS is made up of massive blocks of material designed to collapse as the wheels of an airplane roll over it, sinking the plane into the runway and bringing it to a safe and gradual stop. The system is designed to be able to stop aircraft traveling at speeds up to 80 mph. The Federal Aviation Administration began studying the technology in the early 1990s in conjunction with the University of Dayton, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the company Zodiac Arresting Systems in New Jersey. According to the FAA, more than 60 US airports -- including JFK and LaGuardia in New York and O'Hare in Chicago -- have installed the technology.
compiler failure, unknown variable. pick up your cards and fix it.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
seriously you're doing it intentionally now
this is next level suck
What if I forgot to number them?
They act like this is some amazing new technology, I remember films from back when I was in Middle/High school where they showed planes encountering materials at the end of runways that stopped runaway aircraft. Perhaps they've improved those materials a bit (at what cost I wonder) but I very much doubt that this is in any way a new thing.
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Crushable Runway Technology Saved Mike Pence's Plane
I was really worried that Mike Pence's plane might have been damaged....
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
I'm glad Pence isOK, otherwise I'm sure Trump would have declared himself his own running mate and Vice President. I don't think I could have handled a Trump-Trump 2016 ticket.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Unnumbered cards have been sorted by weight.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
It says even in the summary that it isn't "Mike Pence's Plane" - it appears to be Eastern Airlines plane....
Why can they use a sand pit instead of a multi million dollar proprietary technology ? An equivalent area of sand would work just as well and would not need expensive renewal every time a plane does overrrun.
**Life is too short to be serious**
Most of the airports in the US with the technology use Zodiac Arresting Systems
Wake up sheeple!!!
when it's something right in front of your face...
Since he was a Republican it was clearly Jesus who saved him.
If you're any good, it doesn't matter what order the cards are in.
Mere humans draw a diagonal stripe across the top edge of the deck with a permanent marker.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
So let's start with taking away that FAA regulation, Gov. "No Regulations" Pence.
Didn't know they were still around... Who's running it? Rickenbacker or Borman?
Crushable Runway Technology
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I hadn't seen a picture from overhead yet, but I wondered how did the plane end up at the *side* of the runway if EMAS stopped the plane? It appears it slid THROUGH the EMAS somewhat diagonally and came to a rest at the side of the runway's end. http://a.abcnews.com/images/US...
They studies many things including sand; they have better experts than you.
The crushable material is designed to gradually slow the aircraft while doing as little damage as possible, and to do this you want a strong solid base under it that will keep the massive aircraft from sinking below runway level. A wide range of aircraft of wildly varying unloaded and loaded weights and rolling at a wide range of speeds and with different landing gear configurations would respond differently to a golf course style sand trap. The sand you propose might arrest one unloaded narrowbody aircraft on an overrun landing just fine and might result in a fireball and many "screaming alphas" on an aborted takeoff of another.
I'm a big critic of the FAA on safety - they are so fossilized and overly cautious on new things that I am convinced they have indirectly contributed to many deaths by being an impediment to things that would have saved lives. In this instance, however, I was aware of this solution as it was being developed and they were right to prefer this solution, it's the best option both for how it works and the cost to deploy it and its ability to sit there in all weather for years and then just work. Sand, left over time in varying weather can become packed quite solid like sandstone, or become soupy, or bound with ice, or sticky or become wind-blown...
Overwhelmed by the design of everyday things. Engineering marvels everywhere, everyone enriched thereby.
What are the odds that this is the only politically neutral post in this thread?
Lay off it.
Donald Trump said, I just spoke to our future vice president, and he's OK. Do you know he was in a big accident with the plane?"
So Tim Kaine was involved too?
"Who installed that crap? Now I'll have to try again!" -- HRC
I know we're short on good metaphors for a Trump presidency, but this seems a little over the top.
Well then I say, fuck crushable runways. We could have had some awesome last-minute election drama, but nooooooooooo, some goddamn crushable runway saves the day.
Thanks a lot, crushable runways, whatever the fuck you are.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
"Crushable Freaking Runways!"
I've never agreed with him politically, but Pence seems like a good guy.
Checking on everyone once the plane stopped, coordinating with emergency crew. Good on him. His running mate would've been the first one out, fuck everyone else, and immediately started litigation paperwork
more of you are worried about the proceeds of your wars....
Your plans for America are the same as for Russia 1917.
You also have the minor problem of aircraft with engines in full throttle retardation mode picking up gravel etc and hurling it through their engines(not good for engines)and firing it back down runways etc at emergency vehicles and making a lovely dangerous surface cos gravel spread thinly on top of concrete acts like ball bearings..
Somebody actually planned ahead AND designed something that worked AND implemented it properly.
All 3 of these happening is rare, KUDOS to those involved!
Table-ized A.I.
I thought they went out of business in the 80's?! Anyway - glad to hear the plane is okay.
Someone want to tell CTR that one of their bots had a meltdown trying to spin the story?
Engineered Material Arresting System?
"A penis? That sounds like something that would hang off a doctor. My boyfriends got cock and dicks, at least." A groupie if Frank Zappa's 200 Motels. Given as an example of how to speak plain English.
Engineered Material Arresting System sounds like something that would hang off a pretentious geek. Or a robot the police might use.
You should be hanged!
Watching a Trump/Pence planewreck in slow motion, hoping for the positive resolution of a potentially disastrous event at the end of the runway. There are still about 10 days of uncertainty until the fellow travellers will step off the plane and pretend nothing happened.
From the Forbes article with photo: "The Pence plane shows it came to a halt to the right of the EMAS system at LaGuardia Image from FlightRadar24.com"
The Pence plane just clipped the right corner of the crushable runway. Looks like the pilot was attempting to get to the grass instead of the crushable. See photo: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/flightradar24-data-regarding-runway-excursion-at-la-guardia-airport/
Imagine a self healing material that could safely stop Naval aircraft. Digging out and recovering the aircraft would be a major problem.. but the idea makes me think of aircraft just touching down on a section of this stuff and coming to a jarring halt. No need to hit any wires...just touch down on that special surface. Could make Naval aviators lives less stressful.
Of cource, when you talk against the world wide establishment, you and your people are in danger.
#TrumpTheEstablishment
Waste of ink. I draw a line front to back, perpendicular to the length of the deck.
So.. gravel?
Does it make you feel better to have a group to demonize?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?