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Offline Busdriver

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Winter in Russia
« on: April 17, 2012, 10:09:25 AM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=925MgqyU2NA

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Re: Winter in Russia
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2012, 01:23:49 PM »
Certainly would be a scary sight. One would think that Russians, from all the nations, would have a respect for snow/ice effects.
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Re: Winter in Russia
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2012, 03:09:38 PM »
 ::unbelieveable:: ::eek::

Wow! It seems like they also can't retract the flaps all the way......
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Re: Winter in Russia
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2012, 11:11:14 AM »
It seems like they also can't retract the flaps all the way......

I think they haven't reached the acceleration altitude yet, but the flaps definitely move, the part that's free from snow was under the surface before they were extended for departure. But anyway, scary  ::eek::

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Re: Winter in Russia
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2012, 11:39:43 PM »
There is an interesting discussion about it at airliners.net tech/ops forum... for those interested...
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