I remember my dad saying that one of his instructors landed one in a stiffish breeze, going backwards relative to ground.
When USS Lexington and Saratoga were converted into aircraft carriers and joined the US Navy in the twenties, aviators found that, if either carrier turned into the wind while running at 20+ knots, inattentive pilots with their engines running would simply lift vertically off the flight deck.
Evidently both struggling to keep up with the Canberra.
Canberra (B57-B) avec instant sunshine:
Filmed from a Canberra.
And there was me wondering why there was so much noise up above today
Aero legends Spitfire ( Elizabeth ) is at Headcorn all weekend if you local
Had no idea those existed
Can’t wait to see how the smooth brains that spend their weekends driving around in convoys of huge pickups festooned in “Fuck Trudeau” flags are going to melt down when they start getting these Woke coins in their change
Whoops!
“The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon,” it said in a statement.
Fuckers are bombing the Moon now
Russia’s obviously missing all their captured nazi scientists…
i would imagine it does still exist, just in much smaller bits than prior to its interface with the moon, i doubt the material has actually vanished
Obviously an agressive move by NATO to repress the Russian speaking peoples of the moon, expect a referendum with a 93% majority for the southern lunar region to reunify with the USSR^H^H^H^HRussia in the next few weeks.
The quote is, according to the BBC, from Roscosmos.
I don’t know whether they have said anything about the power source - solar, nuclear or battery?
This page reckons all three
but officially I think the owner’s status is SGOTI* so I don’t know if he’s right.
*Some Guy On The Internet