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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rational_bakchod • 15h ago
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Wish we had a better view of the extra pieces added to the wings. I'd be interested to see just how extreme they went
193 u/drtyler91 9h ago The wings have modifications, but the head wind is doing the heavy lifting 58 u/Lawdoc1 8h ago Literally. 11 u/hmnuhmnuhmnu 7h ago Not so heavy, tho. That plane looks stripped down to the bones 9 u/PineappleHairy4634 6h ago they normally are out in the Bush(Alaska is where ive personally seen this) as they often dont know how much(or little) runway they may have 1 u/Lawdoc1 6h ago True, in this case the "heavy lifting" is relative to the mass of the plane, which is quite low in this particular case.
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The wings have modifications, but the head wind is doing the heavy lifting
58 u/Lawdoc1 8h ago Literally. 11 u/hmnuhmnuhmnu 7h ago Not so heavy, tho. That plane looks stripped down to the bones 9 u/PineappleHairy4634 6h ago they normally are out in the Bush(Alaska is where ive personally seen this) as they often dont know how much(or little) runway they may have 1 u/Lawdoc1 6h ago True, in this case the "heavy lifting" is relative to the mass of the plane, which is quite low in this particular case.
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Literally.
11 u/hmnuhmnuhmnu 7h ago Not so heavy, tho. That plane looks stripped down to the bones 9 u/PineappleHairy4634 6h ago they normally are out in the Bush(Alaska is where ive personally seen this) as they often dont know how much(or little) runway they may have 1 u/Lawdoc1 6h ago True, in this case the "heavy lifting" is relative to the mass of the plane, which is quite low in this particular case.
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Not so heavy, tho. That plane looks stripped down to the bones
9 u/PineappleHairy4634 6h ago they normally are out in the Bush(Alaska is where ive personally seen this) as they often dont know how much(or little) runway they may have 1 u/Lawdoc1 6h ago True, in this case the "heavy lifting" is relative to the mass of the plane, which is quite low in this particular case.
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they normally are out in the Bush(Alaska is where ive personally seen this) as they often dont know how much(or little) runway they may have
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True, in this case the "heavy lifting" is relative to the mass of the plane, which is quite low in this particular case.
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u/SouthSounder 15h ago
Wish we had a better view of the extra pieces added to the wings. I'd be interested to see just how extreme they went