▲ 40 ▼ Navy searching for missing crew member after 'emergency water landing' (www.usatoday.com) submitted 4 months ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/world 5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago (2 children) "water landing" Ooh, new oxymoron just dropped permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago* (1 child) ? Water is a resistive surface, you can land on it. Generally, this will... not exactly go swimmingly, and most aircraft will sink soon afterward, if they don't tear themselves apart in the landing process... but in some situations, it is possible. There are also a fair number of aircraft that are intentionally designed to be able to take off and land from water. You have perhaps heard of a seaplane? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) land ing permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago* (1 child) ? Water is a resistive surface, you can land on it. Generally, this will... not exactly go swimmingly, and most aircraft will sink soon afterward, if they don't tear themselves apart in the landing process... but in some situations, it is possible. There are also a fair number of aircraft that are intentionally designed to be able to take off and land from water. You have perhaps heard of a seaplane? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) land ing permalink fedilink source parent
[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) land ing permalink fedilink source parent