The same way barn doors fly when hit by a tornado. If the aerodynamic pressure created below is greater than that produced above -- and greater to a sufficient degree that it overcomes the force of gravity -- the thing rises. Of course, aircraft wings -- unlike barn doors -- are designed precisely to produce this pressure, with the air pressure above the wing going negative and thus sucking the wing upward (in addition to the positive pressure from below). Hence the "wing clouds" in the video posted above. If you stick your flat hand out the car door on the highway and angle it "leading edge" up, you'll feel the pressure. And your hand is certainly not designed for aerodynamic efficiency.
This tells the story of the 104 and how such a snazzy-but-useless plane came to be a NATO mainstay. Both Franz Josef Strauß (a corrupt old bastard -- but unfortunately West Germany's defence minister at the time) and Richard Nixon are mentioned as receiving Lockheed bribes.
OK, I'll watch it on the weekend. The Arrow story --- like the Hiroshima bombing, the JFK assassination, my mother-in-law's logorrhoea, etc. --- is something we'll never fully understand. So is Dief the Creep, for that matter. Though he had his charms.
This is a collage of super-short snips of footage put together by someone who flies the A320. (Jeez, what a lot of work putting this together must have been!) Flies the A320 and appears to be based in Geneva, judging by the frequent shots the airport, approaches to and takeoffs from GVA, and descending over the Alps. Could be Easyjet Switzerland, which is based here, or Swiss International. Both have that type. I really like the jokey parts he (or she) has worked in: need to insert money to keep plane flying; programming chemtrail drop; etc. The music is at least tolerable (it so often ruins things like this) but I think it's best to watch it in silence. Some great shots!
We had some C130s flying over earlier today. Happens a few times a year that they come past close enough to see the rondels. I'm not sure if they're taking off from the island or not at that altitude and bearing... flights from YYZ tend to be a lot higher and further from the city core. It's easier to guess they're headed back to Trenton than where they came from... They frequently circle at least once before going on their way. I think there's a bit of a tradition of waving to Sick Kids Hospital with military and heritage planes.
Couldn't be Downsview, I guess. It's all Bombardier these days, right? It used to be partly military. Maybe they just come down from Trenton then go back, with no Toronto airport involved. They're probably low to stay below YYZ's terminal control area, which wants them well out of its hair. On a sidenote, this is a fine example of "politically correct". Can you imagine anyone these days naming a newly built pediatric hospital "the Sick Children's Hospital"? It's too direct. Politically correct is all about evasive euphemism.