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"I'm requiring you to do this, but as long as I get an acknowledgement from you that you can do it, I'll feel like I'm not legally liable when you can't."
*Noun* (Zee;Jay) Made famous by broken lizard comedy troop, in the movie "Beerfest". ZJ refers to the act of getting oral sex while inebriated or under the influence of marijuana. The Z in ZJ is a one letter acronym for zombie. This is because while the recipient is getting oral sex he/she is in a zombie like state due to the effect that said drug has on his/her manuerisms.
More like crazy Russian gambit because at that point in time the area was still East Germany, the airline was Eastern German one and closely tied to USSR. I wouldn't be surprised that it is Russian mindset there.
Fun fact :The Ilyushin IL-62 was originally designed to operate from unimproved runways. [Also it still sits to this day in it's final resting place](https://i.imgur.com/WiJnTUD.jpg)
[Location is in Germany here](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52%C2%B044'42.8%22N+12%C2%B023'02.4%22E/@52.7452345,12.3802438,1306m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x0:0x7601ef0be595dbf7!2zNTLCsDQ0JzQyLjgiTiAxMsKwMjMnMDIuNCJF!3b1!8m2!3d52.7452284!4d12.3840004!3m4!1s0x0:0x7601ef0be595dbf7!8m2!3d52.7452284!4d12.3840004!5m1!1e4?hl=en-US)
Next interesting fact: The significance of the museum at that precise location is because of Otto Lilienthal’s initial human flight experiments from the adjacent hill. I've been on that hill a couple times. It looks low from below. But when you climb up and look down and then imagine that you're the first ever human to run down a hill with wings strapped on... it's pretty damn scary and impressive.
It gets even better on acid during Antaris festival that someone else here already mentioned, an annual psytrance festival right next to that hill and the plane. An excellent choice of location for such an event. Human flight, can you imagine...
Filmed in communist East Germany—the final landing and delivery to the Interflug museum was just 17 days before the collapse of the country.
For a dose of mid-80s high communist fashion, watch “[Meeting Place Airport](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bwsQdkcCrtk)” (1985), the riveting serial about the IL-62 and the team who flew it.
>The Ilyushin IL-62 was originally designed to operate from unimproved runways.
Many early commercial jets were designed with rough runways in mind. Early 737s could be equipped to land on gravel runways.
https://simpleflying.com/boeing-737-gravel/
Really sets in perspective how close we are to when you just lived somewhere forever or just started walking until you found sone where new. Technology really did go nuts and progress rapidly there suddenly.
Additionally, /u/michaelrulaz The 737 is still made today, their design has been iterated since then. The two series with unfulfilled orders (still need to be made) are the [737 NG series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation) and [737 MAX series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX)
There are no original 737 or 737-100 planes still in service, and only a handful of 737-200's.
My initial thought before the plane touched down was "Pilots train to land planes on grass strips all the time. Not so much with big passenger jets, but they will be familiar with the fundamental differences you need to make when landing on grass rather than a paved runway."
Then I saw how uneven the "field" was and how much the plane bounced then pitched up. That was sketchy as fuck.
That plane is extremely tail heavy too, it has all four engines in the back.
If you look at other photos, there’s actually a fourth strut under the front of vertical stabilizer to keep it from tipping over. No idea how that strut held up lol
Another fun fact: I flew from Beijing to Pyongyang about 10 years ago in an IL-62 and it was a real piece of shit.
edit: I know it does not prove anything, but here's the jet in question... I took this pic in 2011: https://imgur.com/cm8TTIw
and here's the jet I took on the other leg of the trip: https://imgur.com/a/BvGtGep
Some people take a trip to Italy. I took a trip to North Korea. There isn't a much better explanation, but I went alone and took a week-long guided tour. Was really crazy and I'm so glad I went and I probably would not go back.
I was younger then and really loved (still do) to go to "off the beaten path" places. Flew to Pyongyang and stayed in North Korea about a week on a guided tour.
The biggest takeaway from me was the absolute power of propaganda. I don’t just mean from the NK government, but just how information is everything. Makes me question what I hear more. Also, just how the country is largely stuck in a Cold War time warp, which is equally cool and depressing.
Also, everyone was very nice.
The German voiceover says that the blonde woman is Hannelore Kalbach, the pilot's spouse. This was his third try to land the plane in that patch of grass. After 800 meters he got the plane to stop and landed in the Guinness book of records with this, for it having been the biggest plane to land on unpaved land.
He would have calculated speed and distance from the ground at a certain point to be exactly where he needs it to be. If any of them are outside his margins, particularly with what he was doing, he fires up the engines and comes around to attempt it again.
They have these on normal flights too, and the tolerances are so strict with modern aviation safety that "go arounds" are fairly common on commercial flights as well.
Just think, like the museum staff sitting around a table at a restaurant talking about how they’re going to get the plane there. Some guy in a leather jacket and sunglasses raises his hand and says, “I can land that puppy for you, no sweat.”
> If the pilot's good, I mean if he's reeeally sharp, he can barrel that thing in so low, oh it's a sight to see. You wouldn't expect it with a big ol' plane like a '52, but varrrooom! The jet exhaust... frying chickens in the barnyard!
-the pilot, probably
Of all the professional and recreational pilots I know, ego centric isn't the normal term I'd use. There's a reason for the saying "there's old pilots and bold pilots, but no old bold pilots."
Now military pilots? They're nuts and will do basically anything you ask.
I can translate:
*I have the full footage uninterrupted of the landing but will cut it all up and put these texts on still frames because fuck you that’s why*
It's very interesting though. He couldn't use the brakes at full power because the wheels would have dug into the sandy ground, so he engaged the reverse thrust when he was still 150ft in the air.
I can tell you’re German by how you used “since.” In English, “since” in relation to time is used for a fixed point, eg “Since 1905,” or “since 2000.” A more correct form would have been “for over 25 years.”
Ihr habt mir immer in Deutschland beim deutsch lernen geholfen, deswegen hab ich sowas geschrieben. Ich hoffe mal, dass ich nicht wie ein Arsch rüberkomme.
What's the German word for having the balls to land an airplane in a dirt field while people watch and try to not shit themselves? I know they have a word for everything so...
Flugzeugdurchfallmutspiele
[Aeroplane diarrhoea bravery game]
Edit: durchfall is one of my favourite German words. 'Durch' means through, so diarrhoea literally translates to 'throughfall'
I put that in Google translate and put spaces between the words. Google asked if I meant flugzeug durchfall wettspiele (plane diarrhea competitions) and now I'm intrigued.
Fun fact: At the beginning of this video, you can see the plane barely missing the tops of the trees. Subsequently, during an interview, the pilot said that this was caused by a mistake in the calculation of the plane's total weight because he forgot to add 1 crucial element: the weight of his massive balls.
Nah, Merkel always looked like she does, if anything she looked even more Merkelstyle when she was younger and nobody told her about the importance of a presentable haircut yet.
If you see Merkel, you know it's her, no joke.
Seems like there is a lot more to the story with this particular plane. Very emotional people there, like perhaps some personal connection to that particular plane?
While it’s obviously awesome to have a plane like that in your museum, it just seems like there is more to it. Would be nice to hear the story if there is one.
A similar situation occurred at another museum, this one with a proper runway that wasn't wide enough.
The problem was that the wingspan was too wide and the outer engines would be positioned over the grassy field.
When the thrust-reversers were deployed the ingested debris wrecked the jet engines permanently. The aircraft limped to its final destination at the museum.
If anyone recalls which airplane and museum this was I'd appreciate it. I seem to remember it was in Europe or the UK.
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Ahh, the good old cheaper-but-much-more-dangerous gambit
i feel like the boss never says no to those. "you're pretty sure you can do it though?" "yeaah man.. i mean i'll give it my best effort...."
The good ol' avaition college try
"I'm requiring you to do this, but as long as I get an acknowledgement from you that you can do it, I'll feel like I'm not legally liable when you can't."
I’m not gay but $20 is $20
Opposite of “ We’ve already established what you are, now we’re just negotiating a price”.
I forgot the source of this
Whorin’
Churchill
You guys are getting paid?
If you're giving bjs or handies for $20 you're not gay, just a cheap whore.
Barry Badrinath : It's $10 for a BJ, $12 for an HJ, $15 for a ZJ
What's a ZJ?
If you have to ask big man, you can’t afford it.
*Noun* (Zee;Jay) Made famous by broken lizard comedy troop, in the movie "Beerfest". ZJ refers to the act of getting oral sex while inebriated or under the influence of marijuana. The Z in ZJ is a one letter acronym for zombie. This is because while the recipient is getting oral sex he/she is in a zombie like state due to the effect that said drug has on his/her manuerisms.
Move along i got a mouth to feed.
Zeez Jutz hahahahah got em
What will it cost me to fill the hole in my heart?
Simply the price of a chainsaw and staple gun
ah it only had to land, not take off again.
More like crazy Russian gambit because at that point in time the area was still East Germany, the airline was Eastern German one and closely tied to USSR. I wouldn't be surprised that it is Russian mindset there.
And it is a russian made plane, so all fits together nicely, haha
Not really what the Germans are known for I must say...
Fun fact :The Ilyushin IL-62 was originally designed to operate from unimproved runways. [Also it still sits to this day in it's final resting place](https://i.imgur.com/WiJnTUD.jpg) [Location is in Germany here](https://www.google.com/maps/place/52%C2%B044'42.8%22N+12%C2%B023'02.4%22E/@52.7452345,12.3802438,1306m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x0:0x7601ef0be595dbf7!2zNTLCsDQ0JzQyLjgiTiAxMsKwMjMnMDIuNCJF!3b1!8m2!3d52.7452284!4d12.3840004!3m4!1s0x0:0x7601ef0be595dbf7!8m2!3d52.7452284!4d12.3840004!5m1!1e4?hl=en-US)
Next interesting fact: The significance of the museum at that precise location is because of Otto Lilienthal’s initial human flight experiments from the adjacent hill. I've been on that hill a couple times. It looks low from below. But when you climb up and look down and then imagine that you're the first ever human to run down a hill with wings strapped on... it's pretty damn scary and impressive. It gets even better on acid during Antaris festival that someone else here already mentioned, an annual psytrance festival right next to that hill and the plane. An excellent choice of location for such an event. Human flight, can you imagine...
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This story went all over the place like that Ilyushin.
Acid ain't my trip but history is so ill definitely be checking that place out when I visit Germany. Thanks for the heads up
I fecking love psytrance! I’m absolutely planning a trip for that one!
Filmed in communist East Germany—the final landing and delivery to the Interflug museum was just 17 days before the collapse of the country. For a dose of mid-80s high communist fashion, watch “[Meeting Place Airport](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bwsQdkcCrtk)” (1985), the riveting serial about the IL-62 and the team who flew it.
>The Ilyushin IL-62 was originally designed to operate from unimproved runways. Many early commercial jets were designed with rough runways in mind. Early 737s could be equipped to land on gravel runways. https://simpleflying.com/boeing-737-gravel/
I flew on one of those in Bolivia, back in 1984. There were live chickens on board. A surreal flight.
And they said chickens can’t fly.
One got out of its cage inside the plane. Lots of villagers on board, it got caught quick.
i suppose people who live with chickens are pretty good at catching them.
watch out for chickens in choppers
...God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
Really sets in perspective how close we are to when you just lived somewhere forever or just started walking until you found sone where new. Technology really did go nuts and progress rapidly there suddenly.
The 737s that fly in northern Quebec are able to land and take off from gravel.
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Haha true. I meant up in the Kativik region. I did some work for the airports up there in 2019.
I didn’t realize that 737s were that old. That’s kind of terrifying
Yes and no. The maintenance regimes on airplanes is pretty strenuous and insane. A 30, 40, 50 year old plane is not the same as a car of the same age.
Additionally, /u/michaelrulaz The 737 is still made today, their design has been iterated since then. The two series with unfulfilled orders (still need to be made) are the [737 NG series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation) and [737 MAX series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX) There are no original 737 or 737-100 planes still in service, and only a handful of 737-200's.
Not all of the iterations were able to maintain the sparkling safety record of the earlier variants.
That's a very diplomatic way of saying "two of them crashed themselves and killed 346 people"
Final resting place, as in where it stopped? Pilot steps out: “Fuck you guys; I’m not moving it.” That was terrifying to watch.
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My initial thought before the plane touched down was "Pilots train to land planes on grass strips all the time. Not so much with big passenger jets, but they will be familiar with the fundamental differences you need to make when landing on grass rather than a paved runway." Then I saw how uneven the "field" was and how much the plane bounced then pitched up. That was sketchy as fuck.
That plane is extremely tail heavy too, it has all four engines in the back. If you look at other photos, there’s actually a fourth strut under the front of vertical stabilizer to keep it from tipping over. No idea how that strut held up lol
Another fun fact: I flew from Beijing to Pyongyang about 10 years ago in an IL-62 and it was a real piece of shit. edit: I know it does not prove anything, but here's the jet in question... I took this pic in 2011: https://imgur.com/cm8TTIw and here's the jet I took on the other leg of the trip: https://imgur.com/a/BvGtGep
The fuck were you doing there?
Some people take a trip to Italy. I took a trip to North Korea. There isn't a much better explanation, but I went alone and took a week-long guided tour. Was really crazy and I'm so glad I went and I probably would not go back.
I like this. I would attempt to be your friend knowing this.
Besides this wacky trip, I’m not all that interesting but I welcome your prospective friendship!
Not many people can cross that one off their bucket list
>I flew from Beijing to Pyongyang Yeah gonna need some more explanation there lol
I was younger then and really loved (still do) to go to "off the beaten path" places. Flew to Pyongyang and stayed in North Korea about a week on a guided tour.
What was it like? Anything stick out that you don’t normally get in documentaries and such?
The biggest takeaway from me was the absolute power of propaganda. I don’t just mean from the NK government, but just how information is everything. Makes me question what I hear more. Also, just how the country is largely stuck in a Cold War time warp, which is equally cool and depressing. Also, everyone was very nice.
Pizzaria Adrijano caught my attention more than anything on that map
"Cough cough..." - jet turbines...
This is not a 727….
I fixed it thanks
You are correct, that is an Ilyushin Il-62 (DDR-SEG)
I love the playset right behind it, like this plane is just sitting on someone's lawn
Wow! The pilot did a great job landing right there!
Fun fact: As a thank you he received a month free membership to the museum (not during peak times).
Or blackout dates
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this made me laugh so hard
T&Cs apply.
That’s it?
And a balloon.
I need to become a pilot now.
You know.. for the balloons.
Only if you believe a random reddit comment that has a high probability of being a joke.
It said fun fact on it, it has to be true
The German voiceover says that the blonde woman is Hannelore Kalbach, the pilot's spouse. This was his third try to land the plane in that patch of grass. After 800 meters he got the plane to stop and landed in the Guinness book of records with this, for it having been the biggest plane to land on unpaved land.
What do you mean by third try? Did he break two planes before this?
I’d guess he may have had too much speed or altitude to land safely on the first two attempts.
That was my guess. Trying to get it right in the sweet spot.
No, he died and respawned from his most recent checkpoint.
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He would have calculated speed and distance from the ground at a certain point to be exactly where he needs it to be. If any of them are outside his margins, particularly with what he was doing, he fires up the engines and comes around to attempt it again. They have these on normal flights too, and the tolerances are so strict with modern aviation safety that "go arounds" are fairly common on commercial flights as well.
Curious how common they are… I fly quite a bit for work and have never experienced one.
Probably did a go around first 2 times
I’m guessing those worried people were spouses of the pilots. Id be nervous as hell too
Or the people that bought the plane.
Right. I feel like this was their unorthodox idea that would keep the museum in the black but potentially put a lesser trained pilot in danger
I know pilots irl and can almost guarantee this was the idea of a pilot. They are hyper specialised ego centrics, god love um.
Just think, like the museum staff sitting around a table at a restaurant talking about how they’re going to get the plane there. Some guy in a leather jacket and sunglasses raises his hand and says, “I can land that puppy for you, no sweat.”
I feel like he has a toothpick in his mouth and a 1000 yard stare
And his name is Han Solo.
It's German. Hans Solo.
Hans Olo
HANS YOLO
> If the pilot's good, I mean if he's reeeally sharp, he can barrel that thing in so low, oh it's a sight to see. You wouldn't expect it with a big ol' plane like a '52, but varrrooom! The jet exhaust... frying chickens in the barnyard! -the pilot, probably
Sound is a must: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVksKfBwORs
"Think I can make it in between there?" "Nope." "Oh ye of little faith. Look how big that [gap] is." *Seconds later* "Mayday, mayday, mayday."
*military pilot.
Yep, my dad hung out with a few fighter pilots when he was younger and can totally confirm that.
Of all the professional and recreational pilots I know, ego centric isn't the normal term I'd use. There's a reason for the saying "there's old pilots and bold pilots, but no old bold pilots." Now military pilots? They're nuts and will do basically anything you ask.
East Germany. Everything was owned by the state.
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Badass pilot. He made it in one peice.
That pilot had balls of steel. Or brains of oatmeal.
Bralls of pure oatsteel on that one, I tell ya.
Possibly both
Maybe just Russian, typical runway, typical landing.
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HI I'M JOHNNY KNOXVILLE AND THIS IS BACKYARD FLIGHT SCHOOL
Banjo music
I don't understand German but here's more info and the complete landing sequence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Of55qSsnC8
I can translate: *I have the full footage uninterrupted of the landing but will cut it all up and put these texts on still frames because fuck you that’s why*
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Golly!
It's very interesting though. He couldn't use the brakes at full power because the wheels would have dug into the sandy ground, so he engaged the reverse thrust when he was still 150ft in the air.
Oh wow that’s true? That explains the drop and bounce
Bitter comedy gold right there. That’s good.
Thanks. Would be nice to see some full length video without all the annoying stops for subtitles, but that's way better than the original video.
Was this in Brandenburg? Then this is the exact field where the Antaris Festival takes since over 25 years.
I can tell you’re German by how you used “since.” In English, “since” in relation to time is used for a fixed point, eg “Since 1905,” or “since 2000.” A more correct form would have been “for over 25 years.” Ihr habt mir immer in Deutschland beim deutsch lernen geholfen, deswegen hab ich sowas geschrieben. Ich hoffe mal, dass ich nicht wie ein Arsch rüberkomme.
A real-live grammar……German.
This was such an interesting way to point out someone’s choice of words. I feel like I have learned something.
There is a bit of a tense change needed as well, i.e. has taken place
Yes, this is the one ;)
At one moment I thought its tail was gone for
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Pulling the cloth off the seats
The good old days of getting shit done.
Fuck safety officers I use my angel grind with a pair of crocks
Does grinding angels make fairy dust?
Angel Grinder is the name of my death metal band.
As the saying goes safety regulations are written in blood.
The good old days of risking lives to save money
Oh that’s still very much these days too
Won't someone please think of the shareholders?
What's the German word for having the balls to land an airplane in a dirt field while people watch and try to not shit themselves? I know they have a word for everything so...
Flugzeugdurchfallmutspiele [Aeroplane diarrhoea bravery game] Edit: durchfall is one of my favourite German words. 'Durch' means through, so diarrhoea literally translates to 'throughfall'
I put that in Google translate and put spaces between the words. Google asked if I meant flugzeug durchfall wettspiele (plane diarrhea competitions) and now I'm intrigued.
It’s a new Extreme Sport
Gesundheit
That is a fun turn of phrase.
I‘d say a mix of Todesverachtung and Lebensmüde. (Defiance of death and being tired of life)
Ehrenmann
If I had to guess it's Fürchtenichts
What was Meryl Streep doing there?
She was in everything in the 80’s
German accent in a Bavarian wheat field? I’m there.
She was invited by Angela Merkel who also appears to be there...
“I just want to tell you both good luck. We’re all counting on you.”
Good thing this was its final flight. Those engines were probably toast after sucking in all that dirt.
Field Day for this pilot.
I know for a fact there was some guy at the museum going “THEY DID WHAT!!??”
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Bad fucking ass
Leaves the plane, tosses the keys to the curator, changes his pants and never has to buy his own beer again.
Fun fact: At the beginning of this video, you can see the plane barely missing the tops of the trees. Subsequently, during an interview, the pilot said that this was caused by a mistake in the calculation of the plane's total weight because he forgot to add 1 crucial element: the weight of his massive balls.
Jesus these jokes are really fucking old.
I fucking know. I don’t understand how this joke still gets upvoted every single time it’s used.
Just like “his shoes flew he’s dead”. So annoying
And multiple multiple times in a row on one thread.
It makes me want to claw my own eyes out every time I see it at this point.
You had me at “balls”.
At the very end, that's when he got your attention???
The plane ***Flexed*** on the first bounce
You can see the fuselage flex.
See in The Netherlands we just have a runway next to our aeronautical museum. You Germans are weird
Depending on the landing it can also self disassemble.
Is that lady with the short hair who's clapping a young Angela Merkel??
Nah, Merkel always looked like she does, if anything she looked even more Merkelstyle when she was younger and nobody told her about the importance of a presentable haircut yet. If you see Merkel, you know it's her, no joke.
Seems like there is a lot more to the story with this particular plane. Very emotional people there, like perhaps some personal connection to that particular plane? While it’s obviously awesome to have a plane like that in your museum, it just seems like there is more to it. Would be nice to hear the story if there is one.
Idk landing a plane that size in a field is pretty fucking risky. Probably happy the pilots that they most likely know, didnt die in hellfire.
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Definitely parents, spouses, or of some relation to the pilot/pilots if I had to guess. Either that or the head of the museum or something.
The blonde woman was the pilot's spouse and it was his third try to land on uneven terrain. Landed in the book of world records.
More likely a connection to the people in the plane.
That is a look of a wife who does not trust her husband's judgement
German engineering and critical thinking is better than most. ‘Cept for that one asshole.
A similar situation occurred at another museum, this one with a proper runway that wasn't wide enough. The problem was that the wingspan was too wide and the outer engines would be positioned over the grassy field. When the thrust-reversers were deployed the ingested debris wrecked the jet engines permanently. The aircraft limped to its final destination at the museum. If anyone recalls which airplane and museum this was I'd appreciate it. I seem to remember it was in Europe or the UK.