Pretty cool time lapse photography of that A320 in the Hudson.
Seems like that river just didn’t want to give up its prize.
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EphemerisBy lex, on February 6th, 2010
February 6th, 2010 | Tags: Small Stuff | Category: Small Stuff
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I assume nobody involved had ever done this job before, but they apparently did it perfectly. I wonder who the honcho was.
Pretty cool to watch the tide ebb and flood by. Interesting that they never bothered to put oil containment booms around the wreck.
Saw a headline last week that said that the NTSB was finished with its investigation of the wreck and the plane was now being auctioned off to the highest bidder. Not sure what one would do with it but it and 2 pilots saved a lot of lives so it might have some appeal. Sort of like the first KAL 747 which is still preserved in Korea miles from any airport or runway.
I would think that somebody somewhere has to have recent/relevant experience lifting stuff up out of the water. All that particular somebody needed in this case was somebody advising him/her on where the aircraft lifting points are located.
Could that plane ever fly again?
Sure – but I suspect the cost to overhaul/repair to airworthiness is more than a nice used replacement (and there are plenty available).
So yes it could but I’m betting it never will.
Yup… likely to end up as a hangar queen.
“Oh that? That’ll buff right out.”
It won’t fly again. The cost to put it back in the air will simply be too great. I imagine it will be junked as very little of anything in it will be worth salvage.
There was a google ad on the site when I went that might be of interest to some such as VX, since they have an RC F-4 with the TAC crest on it. They also have various F-18 models, and others. Looks rather neat.
http://www.nitroplanes.com/edfjets.html
Very cool, glad the photographer opted to capture it. Scrolling down to the other videos, I saw the Hubble deep field vid. Really amazing stuff. Our local IMAX has the 3D Hubble film coming soon, the preview of which was truly impressive.
Pondering the title, without success.
Sorry, it was a bit opaque. I just couldn’t help thinking how ant-like the human actors in the montage were, how quickly we come and go from the scene, and how the river runs on regardless.
Domo arigato.
That theme had occurred to me, along with the thought of how great in spirit we can be, and what we can accomplish, when working as a team.
A small event by itself, perhaps, though an example and a reminder of possibilities.
In his book, On The Bottom, Cdr. Edward Ellsberg wrote about raising the sunken sub USS-S51. After raising her, the salvagers were towing her into NY Harbor, heading for the NY Navy Yard, when S51 touched on Man of War Reef, and it looked like she might slide off the pontoons she was hanging from. Ellsberg was quite worried, as he would only get an hours worth of diving each 12 hours, a half hour at each slack tide, with those hours being difficult themselves, due to the Hudson’s current. He was very happy when they got her off the reef safely.
Now I do realise that the raising of S51 was 84 years ago, with primitive diving equipment, but the Hudson and the tides are still there. I think that getting that thing out of the water may take some effort.
Yeah, the ice moved left, the ice moved right, the ice moved left, the ice moved right… With the time-lapse of frantic human activity, Lex put words to the hidden meaning of regardless.
Having been on many a boat underwater I can say that the hardest part is A) the cold B) the visibility C) the cold,regardless of how good your drysuit or thermal underwear. Bottom time was probably not an issue based on the depth at the pier.
‘Scuse me, but the “human saver” was the masterful and calm driver of this bird – not the bird itself.
A few back, Chap turned me onto stop action filming, coupled with tilt shift videography, an art form mastered by Keith Loutit. I really enjoy most of his vids (the “Bathtub” series), but this one is pretty haunting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuq8nzxqyEw.
Bill, is the narrow depth of field in those vids artistic, or is it a technical function of time lapse photography?
CAPT, the time compression is from the stop action photography, as with the A320 salvage vid. The narrow DOF comes from the camera optics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography
Rather than “tilt shift” or “tilt focus”, the imaging used should be called “selective focus via tilt” or “perspective control”.
Modern factory optics are pretty pricey (check out Nikon perspective control lenses at your favorite dealer).
Back before your/my time, the old bellows type field cameras did the same thing when the bellows were intentionally misaligned.
ya know, one of reasons why I really enjoy this site is the broad range of topics and interests, and the chance to link off to new stuff and learn (e.g. Loutit’s art, techniques, technology). As a bonus, being a father of two young boys, “Bathtub” prompted memories of time with them watching Thomas the Train, and JJ the Jetplane not so many years ago. Thx for the link.