Old and New Amazing things

Ok now we can go to the moon...(new amazing!)
But I sure recon this girl is dam guttsy
They did some amazing trick in the old days
with little or no technology as such! (-:

Dont make them like they used to.

I love it! there use to be the old movie clips of girls dancing on the wings
Do you really think they new those planes were just stuck together with tape

I hate to burst your bubble GD, (POP! oops sorry,) but the more I look at that clip, the more it looks like a studio fake.
Anyone who has ever put their head or hand out the window of an aeroplane will know how hard the slipstream blows on it.
Even at the low speed those old crates chug along, it is considerable.

There are a number of frames in that clip that show almost no effect from slipstream. e.g when she is sitting on the undecarriage cross bar, her leg is just dangling straight down. It should be blowing backwards.
When she is waling along the wing, her arms and hands are just waving about like she is walking around a shopping mall.
There are no scenes in the plane change series or wheel change series which show a normal slipstream effect.
Also, when she fits the wheel on the axle shaft, the wheel just drops straight down and into place.
Wheels have bearings with very small clearances on the axle shaft. They have to be wriggled on slowly with some effort. She just seems to ba able to throw that one on from a distance and it's all fixed. I don't think so!

The landing scene does look real however.

Not sure if anyone watched 'Big Bigger Biggest' last night but it was on the Gotthard Base Tunnel, a 57km long train tunnel through the Swiss Alps. As Engineer myself stuff like this just makes me go "holy s!@#", they started digging in 1996 and are still digging(some tunnels completed); it won't open till 2017. The man power, logistics, engineering hurdles etc they had to overcome to build this thing are straight up astounding!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel

Yeah these days all those machines are equipped with automated theodolites and are driven by computer basically. Apparently the Gotthard tunnel was 2cm out of alignment with the two ends of the West tunnel joined up, pretty damn good.