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06-08-2020, 01:04 AM - 1 Like   #78646
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QuoteOriginally posted by Racer X 69 Quote
Bad idea to skydive during Cessna mating season.


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Everyone made it down safely, including both pilots, although one pilot was sent to hospital. The bottom plane was able to land, the top plane broke up and came down in pieces.
Ouch. I would prefer skydiving to going down with that wingless plane, though!

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quite an humble understatement, Sav.
Or they'd need a gangway to get to the entrance. Falling off the edge every time you go out would be inconvenient.
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Yeah, we have lots and lots of these clay areas built up the glacier morains. Brilliantly good soil for farming. But from time to time such an area liquifies and collapses.

This one happened in 1978, where 5-6 million cubic metres (that's about a gazillion cubic feet) of clay decided to move.



Probably time to move?
Amusing how figures are confidently pronounced by tv, papers etc straight after these events - 5 million cubic meters, a gazillion cubic feet, half a million protesters - like they had a reporter measure it or could look it up in a register.

I think people don’t look at moving because it’s their patch, we’ve always lived here, we own 50 acres on the east coast (which are now 49.7 acres of shingle and seaweed...). The insurance companies are another matter, they continue to cover floodplain properties but decline to cover property built on an inland rock due to flood if the sea rose 700 feet at the end of the next century...
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Well, yes, but some of them never get to be old enough to say that

I do see why flying like this can get addictive, though.

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Brilliant. Of course, it's not really flying, it's falling in style.

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Ouch. I would prefer skydiving to going down with that wingless plane, though!
It still had one wing.

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Brilliant. Of course, it's not really flying, it's falling in style.
Hitch hiker’s guide to the Galaxy quotation #2:- “the trick to flying is to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

These nutcases in wing suits haven’t all cracked that yet.
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But when I read about people being upset over having to rebuild their house - again - after the third flooding in six years, I wonder why they just can't move. And I wonder why the insurance company is still willing to pay for another rebuild.
Substitute hurricane for flooding and you're describing Florida and the Gulf Coast.

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Great info. Out here in my province (Manitoba) 1000's of years ago when the ice age melted...it left an indelible effect on the topography of our province. My understanding is that the Hudson Bay 'melt' caused huge torrents of water to flow and shape valleys...and for thousands of years much of the province was the giant Lake Agassiz .
Yup, the Barron Canyon in Algonquin park is a good example of this. Today it is a sedate waterway bordered by towering cliffs. In the past, a raging torrent draining the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet.
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Looks like he is lucky that rear wheel did not collapse....
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Looks like he is lucky that rear wheel did not collapse....
It lasted long enough to win the race, eh?
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I'll tell ya in the people are awesome video there were scenes that made my butt pucker so hard I had to call Mrs. Racer to come pull my chair out. I'm not afraid of heights, but something in the very core of my being knows when standing on the top of a skyscraper construction crane is not a good idea.
Yup!!!
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My uncle was in the Canadian Army...that hit Juno Beach in Normandy, France that day. He was shot up, but survived, eventually recovered and lived a successful life..

Thank you for posting and remembering the Allied efforts.
Dad was up very early that morning clambering into the cockpit of his Avro Halifax bomber. His mission, soften up the defences prior to invasion. He very rarely spoke of those days but once in his older years, mentioned the incredible sight that presented itself to him and the other bomber crews as they returned to base. The rising sun illuminated the sight of the invasion force as far as the eye could see.
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QuoteOriginally posted by CharLac Quote
Dad was up very early that morning clambering into the cockpit of his Avro Halifax bomber. His mission, soften up the defences prior to invasion. He very rarely spoke of those days but once in his older years, mentioned the incredible sight that presented itself to him and the other bomber crews as they returned to base. The rising sun illuminated the sight of the invasion force as far as the eye could see.
It was quite something to be a part of and I'm sure your dad had some close calls from incoming flak. Tremendous sacrifices made by that generation to preserve democracy and our way of life.

Interesting you mention your Dad's Avro Halifax. After the war my dad bought a surplus Lancaster Bomber propeller and we had it mounted in a place of honour in our rec room for many years.

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Yup, the Barron Canyon in Algonquin park is a good example of this. Today it is a sedate waterway bordered by towering cliffs. In the past, a raging torrent draining the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet.
My wife and I do a lot of driving...highways, back roads.... in Manitoba and North Western Ontario and it's fascinating to see the topography. In southern Mb. I'm amazed by the deep valleys that have been carved out by torrents of water from ice melt.

One area in particular that we visit at least twice a year is the Pembina Escarpment...which is in western Manitoba, North Dakota and South Dakota. Very interesting foot hillish area that was scoured out , partially by melting glaciers. There still remains a very interesting, meandering little river (Pembina River) in this area.

This area is quite different from the typical Northern Great Plains which forms a good chunk of Southern Manitoba. Deep valleys, many fossils are found, in fact one of the prime raptor fly paths for these birds coming from down south to their northern summer homes. Bald Eagles, the odd Golden Eagle, Harris Hawks, etc...come in droves within in a couple of weeks in the early spring.


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We're going for a trip up into the mountains in a week and a half, but it's probably too much snow for a proper hike (and no, Racer, not enough for skiing!).

They are supposed to open the road this weekend so we at least can drive all the way in. During winter there is public transport with old Bombardier smowmobiles the last 25 km or so. They have been upgraded with 310 hp 5.7L Chevy V8s - originally they had a Chevy straight 6 with 1/3rd of the hp

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We're going for a trip up into the mountains in a week and a half, but it's probably too much snow for a proper hike (and no, Racer, not enough for skiing!).

They are supposed to open the road this weekend so we at least can drive all the way in. During winter there is public transport with old Bombardier smowmobiles the last 25 km or so. They have been upgraded with 310 hp 5.7L Chevy V8s - originally they had a Chevy straight 6 with 1/3rd of the hp

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