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How To Ditch A Plane According To Physics
Landing a plane on a runway is simple. A backward-pushing force, such as friction, between the tyres and the ground, or the engines’ reverse thrust, slows the plane, while lift from the wings and the natural reaction force from the ground counter the
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How To Buy Your Own Unique Property
A report from the analytics company GeoTab counts more than 3 800 ghost towns still standing in America. But they don’t usually receive much attention when they hit the market, says Underwood. Weird property news generally travels fastest by word of
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6 Metre Waves. All Engines On Fire. 1 500 Km From Land.
Eric Lindner’s book Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival tells the story of pilot John Murray’s 1962 lifesaving ‘ditch’ of an L-1049H Super Constellation in the North Atlantic Ocean. The barely co

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