Zpat

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I thought this was an interesting perspective of a landing.

invertedpass

You got to love those guys that fly for Uncle Sam. Those boys can do things I would never think of doing.
Great picture.

FLYBOY

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Its farther down than it looks, but impressive quite the same.

LearjetMech

I think it is actually taking off

No1RCfan

By looking at the dust behind the aircraft i also say i think it is taking off.

justrfb

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Please excuse my ignorance... What is FOD?

No1RCfan

FOD= Foreign Object Damage

FLYBOY

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Yea, didn't look at it close enough. Your right. Would hate to see the abort!

justrfb

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Thanks No1RCfan...

ShoestringRacer

actually FOD is foreign object debris. (any junk or objects on the ground where the plane operates)

FOD is what causes the damage.

No1RCfan

both terms are used interchangable

scottrc

"Ouch, a bolt just hit me in the head!"

History Channel last night had a special on runways and FOD. The runway inspectors have a cool job of driving at 110 mph between jets scoping out any material that might be on the runway. I saw one inspector at Dallas with a Corvette screaming past the MD80 I was on. They also do a lot of critter control (rabbits, dogs, geese etc.) that can be known to be feathered or furry FOD.

LearjetMech

Shoe is correct! RC1, "Foriegn object damage" is a very misused term!

No1RCfan

I was taught both terms in the sense that FOD causes FOD. Either way we dont want either one of them around full scale aircraft of any kind.

Zpat

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FOD = BAD

WhiteRook

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yea, i remember those early morning fod walks we used to have
when i was in the AF in Alaska.

Rotorwrench

We use the term FOD in both ways. Foreign object debris is before it can damage the aircraft and foreign object damage is after the damage is done.

rc12

Nice way of stateing it Rotorwrench.

jettstarblue

FOD line, foreign object detection line, or walking the deck of the carrier to look for junk....

FLYBOY

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Its used quite a few ways. My first jet flight ever ended with the left engine fod. Cost us a quarter of a million bucks. Not fun. Don't matter what you call the crap going in, it is expensive.

Geistware

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Too bad that he doen't have afterburner. He could clean the runway with one pass

BaronSchwab

Thats one heck of a takeoff. I don't want to see the flame out.

jongurley

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I wouldn't want to see anything but a gain in altitude..