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Items like this make history fun:
Gimli Glider is the nickname of an Air Canada aircraft which was involved in an infamous aviation incident. On 23 July 1983, a Boeing 767-200 jet, Air Canada Flight 143, ran completely out of fuel at 41,000 feet (12,000m) altitude, about halfway through its flight from Montreal to Edmonton. The crew was able to glide the aircraft safely to an emergency landing at Gimli Industrial Park Airport, a former airbase at Gimli, Manitoba.
The subsequent investigation revealed corporate failures and a chain of minor human errors which combined to defeat built-in safeguards, deceiving Captain Robert Pearson into accepting an aircraft that should never have been flown. In addition, fuel loading was miscalculated through misunderstanding of the recently adopted metric system.
What happens when you take a lift phenomenon caused by being close to the ground (called the ground effect) and crank out a flying vehicle that takes advantage of it? Well, you get an ekranoplan:
Take my comments about that previous sailplane video being cool and just toss them out the window. Now, with utter amazement, view a video of flying squirrel suits in action. Note how, in mid-flight, users of the suit can do gymnastic tumbles. Also pay attention to the super super cool triple coordinated back flip off of a cliff that then transitions into flight using the suit.
Annnnd - best short video this month: Flying a Sailplane Off a Cliff. Writes a commenter:
Makes you wonder how the Swiss ever found the time to work on clocks and chocolate…