The captain recognized Curles Neck Farm, selected the largest field, and landed straight ahead with the flaps up and the landing gear retracted.
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But so far, Bradford says, no one has come up with a Clapper-type John device that makes the seat flap up and down when you put your hands together.
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This is a glide ratio of 16 to 1 and is based on a wings level glide with gear and flap up and a gross weight of 11000 to 12000 pounds.
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Canadians on the show are often portrayed in an even more minimalist fashion; they have simple beady eyes, and the top halves of their heads simply flap up and down when the characters speak.
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Leno's depiction of " The Waiter ", dressed in an oversized dinner jacket and loose-fitting white dickey, which would flap up and hit his face, was of a man consumed in self-pity and indignation.
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On 12 November 1958, brand new Vickers Viscount ZK-BRD " City of Wellington " suffered an accidental wheels up landing at Whenuapai when Captain'Johnny'Walker, co-piloting for Captain Peter Matheson, selected the undercarriage up lever instead of full flaps up.
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Their wings flap up to 70 times per second . ( It's the rapid wing flaps that create the humming . ) Their hearts beat up to 1, 200 times a minute-- slightly slower than a teen-age boy's as he meets a girl's parents.
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"If a pilot taxis out and takes off with the flaps up, yes, it's human error, " says John Nance, an airline pilot and aviation analyst who has spent much of his time this past year as an adviser to the health care industry.
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"But the next question is, ` What caused the error ?'It's not because the folks in the cockpit say, ` OK, guys, we can go take off with the flaps up and die, or we can put them down and make it home for dinner .'
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For example, he disclosed that Frank Eugene Corder, the pilot who crashed below the president's bedroom window last year, had his plane's wing flaps up and his throttle at full forward, which led investigators to conclude that he had intended to crash in a suicide mission.
