{"id":1647,"date":"2008-03-03T10:08:59","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T10:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/03\/airbus-320-gone-wild\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T10:08:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T10:08:59","slug":"airbus-320-gone-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/airbus-320-gone-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus 320 Gone Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceblogs.de\/frischer-wind\/\">Christian Reinboth (Frischer Wind)<\/a> sent me this amazing video.  Christian says it has been circulating on the European <em>YouTube<\/em> circuit (which, from our American perspective could be known as &#8220;<em>TheirTube<\/em>&#8220;).  It has been very windy in Europe lately, as you know from the amazing Wind Turbine Catastrophic Failure videos (<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/wind_turbines_gone_wild.php\">Wind Turbines Gone Wild<\/a>).This is an Airbus 320 trying to land in a very strong cross wind:<!--more--><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ueJeC2pxxbM\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object>This reminds me of the old Sesame Street skit &#8220;Can you see wind?&#8221;  &#8230; maybe not, but if you are aerodynamic, the wind can certainly see you. That is some amazing flying.  (Or should we say controlled buffeting?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague Christian Reinboth (Frischer Wind) sent me this amazing video. Christian says it has been circulating on the European YouTube circuit (which, from our American perspective could be known as &#8220;TheirTube&#8220;). It has been very windy in Europe lately, as you know from the amazing Wind Turbine Catastrophic Failure videos (Wind Turbines Gone Wild).This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/airbus-320-gone-wild\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Airbus 320 Gone Wild<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[120],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-qz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}