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Posted for "Skip Slater" <skipslater@earthlink.net>:
"Has anyone experienced a downward blast from a landing aircraft?"Boy have I
ever!
I took the attached photo on Diego Garcia during an Indian Ocean deployment
with the Navy back in 1981. I was bored one day so I climbed up on the
approach light structure nearest the runway to take some shots of incoming
aircraft. When this C-5 flew over me, the deafening engine noise was soon
replaced by the sound of gusting wind followed by a combination of downdraft
and wake turbulence that very nearly knocked me from the lights. If my camera
hadn't been attached to a strap around my neck, it would have fallen to the
ground beneath me when I had to grab the structure with both hands to keep
from being blown off of it. It was like being in a vertical hurricane for a
couple of seconds and then it just stopped. Pretty powerful demonstration.
Skip Slater
N540ES
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