Vintage "American Airlines" Ad...♠TAM Airliner lands safely at JFK....!!!Prezzie.....!!!!.."WARNING" SHOT......;)..I'm not "Easy".....Dammit...!!!!!! "Curiosity".............Snooping around Mars...........♠ "Endeavor" mating video with 747...for last trip...."Endeavors" ......New Home.............♠

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The "Eyes" have it..............♠




See story and video below, Please......

Front landing gear cocked to the side............!!!!

It was a miracle on Runway 31L....
Frightened passengers braced for a crash landing at Kennedy Airport yesterday,Wednesday(9/26/12) when the nose gear failed on their flight from Rio de Janeiro.
But the gear on the Airbus A330 amazingly locked into the correct position as the plane was just 50 feet above the runway.
“It was like the hand of God turned the wheel,” said a Port Authority rescuer who was part of the disaster response crew put in place for the incident.
None of the 190 people aboard TAM Airlines Flight 8078 were hurt — despite getting the fright of their lives.
“Everyone was panicking inside the plane,” said Rio resident Anna Maria Falcao, 33.

“Even the crew was running around panicking, saying ‘Don’t worry, no one’s going to die.’ So many people were crying,” said Falcao, who was traveling to New York with her 1-year-old son, her husband and her mother.
Everyone was warned to brace by putting their heads in their hands, Falcao said.
“The captain kept saying ‘Be calm, keep calm. We know what we’re doing,’” said Matheus Freiha, 23, of Sao Paulo.
But the emergency preparations proved unnecessary -- the landing turned out to be smooth as silk, and passengers’ fright turned to applause for the skillful flight crew.
“It was a perfect landing, better than normal,” said Freiha, who is in New York to study at the International Culinary Center.
The plane landed without incident at 11 a.m., after circling the airport twice so controllers and rescuers could get a look at its nose gear.
The nose gear dropped down, but the wheels were turned at a right angle. “It appears cocked at 90 degrees,” a controller radioed one of the pilots.
The incident recalled JetBlue Flight 292, an Airbus which had a similar problem with its landing gear when it made an emergency landing at Los Angeles in September 2005.
But unlike today’s incident, the JetBlue A320’s landing gear never straightened out. The twisted gear created a shower of sparks as the plane skidded to a stop



               

   We Celebrate "Air Canada"......

on 75 years of Success & Service...!!!

 BRAVO......!!!
☻



I AM SO "LUCKY".........!!!!
Look what I got in my "Snail".........mail yesterday
(regular postal)........!!!!!!!!
It's the "Collector's Edition.....of
"enRoute" inflight  magazine...........
Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of "Air Canada"...........!!!!!
One of my Dear Canadian Friends sent to me............
and I say "Thank You" Ritchie........
a zillion times.........again!!!!!!
♥ 

 Consider this a "WARNING SHOT"..........If you came to visit.........my humble blog.........I Thank you, for taking time out of your  busy day, to do so.......!!!!!!!!!!
BUT........................DON'T LET ME FIND OUT, YOU DIDN'T STAY, AND WATCH THE VIDEO'S I PUT HERE.........!!!!!!......... ;/
It Didn't take me 5 long YEARS to learn just, how to put a video on this blog.........
FOR MY HEALTH...........;)))))))))...........
I don't know, about you.....but the vid of the mating of 'Endeavor' and her 'Mother' ship is just Friggin "Awesome".........!!!!........Look.......here some popcorn......and a cold drink..........
Just never know when MissTWA will give a pop quiz........
(yep, I'm  full of myself.....)
but serious.......I am very Thankful......for each visitor.......even the 'Sneeks'.........;))))))))
and to just be sure..........I am just Kidding here.......(sorta...lol))
Have a Wonderful Day...............♥


 Mz...."EASY Jet"...................!!!
should have kept my 'Day job'..........OMG
;/





NASA's Curiosity rover reached out and touched a Martian rock with its huge robotic arm for the first time, then took off on its longest Red Planet drive to date.

Curiosity spent the past several days investigating a strange pyramid-shaped stone named "Jake Matijevic," testing out some of the gear at the end of its 7-foot-long (2.1-meter-long) arm. These tools include the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer, or APXS, which measures elemental composition; and the Mars Hand Lens Imager close-up camera, or MAHLI.



I would like to introduce you to "Jake"........He's the leader singer, of a "Rock" and Roll band "Curiosity" has been Jamming to........LOL......
(really he's the first rock...Curiosity is now......checking out)...
damn 'groupie'.........;)))).





Credit: NASA/JPL-CBelly Check for Curiosityaltech/Malin Space Science SystemsThis view of the lower front and underbelly areas of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity was taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the 34th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars. This image was taken Sept. 9, 2012.

  
 

On Sol 32 (Sept. 7, 2012) the Curiosity rover used a camera located on its arm to obtain this self portrait. The image of the top of Curiosity's Remote Sensing Mast, showing the Mastcam and Chemcam cameras, was acquired by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI).





This image shows the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on NASA's Curiosity rover, with the Martian landscape in the background. The image was taken by Curiosity's Mast Camera on the 32nd Martian day, or sol, of operations on the surface (Sept. 7, 2012, PDT or Sept. 8, 2012, UTC).

      
below.....
Check out the "Penny"........used for
 size calibration.....!!!!
Lincoln sure racking up "Frequent flyers miles"......

AThis view of the calibration target for the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) aboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity combines two images taken by that camera during the 34th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars. This image was taken Sept. 9, 2012.


Check Please check out this 3 minute video of
"Endeavor"
mating with 747....for her trip to the "OLD FOLK'S HOME"..........(SMILE)........♠

http://www.space.com/17658-endeavour-and-747-mated-time-lapse-video.html

 Here is a Video of the Take-off of "Endeavor"......and "Mother" ship......as they bid "Farewell"...to Edwards airforce base..............;(

 http://www.space.com/17714-take-off-endeavour-bids-farewell-to-edwards-video.html

Check these pictures out, I 'Shamelessly' stole...;)))  
 off of  Darryl Bustamante's blog......
"Totally Jack-up Aircraft photos!!!!......
Last week, New Orleans had the low-pass over of Endeavor...'Piggy backing"..........On her way to her final resting place......in Los Angelas......!!!
Well........these are pics of her landing in
 Los Angeles.....!!!.....
Welcome Endeavor.....!!!!!!!!

Photo's stolen(;) from
'Totally Jacked up Aircraft Photos".........
pics taken by Ken Miller and Sean Moran..........
Excellent Job.....!!!!!!!!!!!

 Shot location............Elysian Park, Los Angeles...9/21/2012

No such thing as a bad picture of Mother,
 "Piggy backing".................♠

LAX........BAD ASS...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Photo by Ben Wang...........Thanx.....so much!!!!!!!

Location .......LAX......♠....
First "Spy Photos"..........from
 Michael Breckshot......(Darryl's Man on the scene........)
don't worry Michael, 
 your 'Secret' is safe with us................;))))))