Nov 12, 2009

Any flight you can walk away from...

How was that last flight you took? Sit next to the fat guy and in front of the screaming baby? Yeah, watch this...

We’ve seen a lot of simulations of U.S. Airways Flight 1549 going into the Hudson River, but a new video painstakingly compiled by an engineer offers the most comprehensive and compelling look yet at the airliner’s short but incredible flight.

But the latest work by Kas Osterbuhr, an engineer at K3 Resources who specializes in the visual presentation of complex data, go one step further. They reconstruct the flight using vast amounts of informtion, including radar information showing the position of the geese that led to the Airbus A320 losing power. The result is an incredible series of videos providing an immersive look at the flight of Cactus 1549.


And to top it off, they lost my luggage - on the bottom of the Hudson!

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