@TomMcW The nice thing about Portal is that it's more of a thinking game, rather than a reflexes game. It's basically a bunch of big puzzles you have to figure out in an interesting way (and with a fun story.) You might be able to get through it, who knows ;). The other option is to just watch a playthrough on Youtube. I'm sure someone has done that.
@fooot @abelenky What amazes me is that people are still voting for my answer even though abelensky clearly stated that I'm wrong.... lol, people.
@abelenky I do think you should go ahead and mark fooot's answer as correct though since, you know, he more or less got it right. Right?
@fooot @abelenky Though, there is now an answer from someone named J... (not me, I promise). And they contend that the plane is actually located too far down the runway to be landing. I dunno, abelensky, what do you think of their logic?
The gist of it is that the plane is about 4000' down the runway. Which, if that's really where it is landing, would be awful late for the plane to be touching down there. But if the plane were lightly loaded...it could possibly take off from there.
I have a picture of Air Force One I took fairly up close several years ago.
Unfortunately, I don't remember if that was on arrival or departure.
Is there anything visible in the airplane's configuration (flaps, angle of gear?) that would indicate if this is arrival or departure?
Is an account which posts spam on a SE site more than once post banned automatically, or is some moderator intervention needed to do that? metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/stackusers/43825
@SRawes: Hi, there is no secret, and nothing exceptional. When searching 1. You need to think about what to search, reusing the knowledge obtained by reading other people writings, and 2. You need to learn how to search.
Then... you must read the documents in the query results until you find additional information to improve the query string or the exact information.
For me the 4th result provides the temperature, but Google shows results according to your previous queries (and the results you selected), so you may not have the same documents returned. The more you open unrelated documents, the more the next results are likely to be unrelated...
I figured it'd happen at some point, but it's been a lot fun being here for the last couple years watching that number spiral slowly upwards. Big day milestone for Peter and the site in general :).
http://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/1961/peter-kämpf
I know, it's not a question. But it'...
Airplanes on conveyor belts... Phone calls on airliners... The Continuous Turn to the runway... This and more in Uncontrolled Airspace. Recorded January 5, 2017.
@JayCarr: I stated ONLY that I think you are wrong. I honestly do not know the correct answer. But based on my hazy memories (that photo is from somewhere around 2010-2012), I believe its a landing. I could still be wrong myself.
Can someone mark aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/34586/… as protected please? It's bound to show up in the hot network questions list and we're starting to get some low quality answers.
@abelenky lol, well, it's sparked quite the debate. Technically it should probably be closed as "primarily opinion based", but I've been having so much fun with it (I think everyone has) I hope it just stays there and people keep arguing ;)
I think unless new information pops up or someone make a breakthrough, it's going to end up being closed after a week or so.
But yes, I'm having fun with it as of this moment. (I even tried to remove the motion blur with Photoshop to see the flaps better, but it didn't work very well)
So, I think we all know the Air Force One landing or takeoff question and many of us are having fun on it. I think this issue will come up sooner or later, so let me start:
Should we close this question?
It appears that, many of us are having fun with it, despite the best effort of the communit...
Are questions asking for data sources or APIs for aviation-related programs on-topic here?
For example, the question Is there an API to retrieve airport departure and arrivals? just came up. There's a bit of discussion there about whether it should be on-topic here or not.
It seems like we've h...
I have a picture of Air Force One I took fairly up close several years ago.
Unfortunately, I don't remember if that was on arrival or departure.
Is there anything visible in the airplane's configuration (flaps, angle of gear?) that would indicate if this is arrival or departure?
I figured it'd happen at some point, but it's been a lot fun being here for the last couple years watching that number spiral slowly upwards. Big day milestone for Peter and the site in general :).
http://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/1961/peter-kämpf
I know, it's not a question. But it'...
So, I think we all know the Air Force One landing or takeoff question and many of us are having fun on it. I think this issue will come up sooner or later, so let me start:
Should we close this question?
It appears that, many of us are having fun with it, despite the best effort of the communit...
Are questions asking for data sources or APIs for aviation-related programs on-topic here?
For example, the question Is there an API to retrieve airport departure and arrivals? just came up. There's a bit of discussion there about whether it should be on-topic here or not.
It seems like we've h...
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