Late Late Night FDL: Los Angeles
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 9th, 2011 5:47 am by HL
Late Late Night FDL: Los Angeles
Sugarcult — Los Angeles — set to video of landing at LAX International Airport via the SADDE Six Arrival, as viewed from the cockpit.
Sugarcult — Los Angeles — set to video of landing at LAX International Airport via the SADDE Six Arrival, as viewed from the cockpit. From the YouTube page:
It was an amazing night and the combination of the Sadde Six approach, the sunset, the visibility, an empty aircraft (maintenance ferry), and ATC vectoring us down to 2,500 feet all worked together.
(snip)
The video is sped up to somewhere between Mach 1 and Mach 2 (depending on actual airspeed about 8X). The original idea was to a) compress a 30 minute approach into three minutes; and b) to see what it would look like if you you were riding on the back of a cruise missile. There will also some minor timing issues to get it to “fit” with the song.
What’s on your mind?
h/t Spocko
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B(eyond) P(arody)
It’s good to know what the really important priorities are nowadays…corporate profits trump mass murder every time.
photo via Ian Tait at flickr.com
Oh BP was there no bit of moral turpitude beyond your grasp last year? Guy in jail for killing 270 people by bombing a jet over Lockerbie, Scotland pales in comparison to an oil drilling deal:
BP, Europe’s second-largest oil company, successfully lobbied the government to get Al-Megrahi included in a prisoner transfer agreement after the Libyans warned they would pull out of deals if he were left out.
And helping out, naturally:
British government ministers secretly advised Libya on how to get convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi released from a life sentence in a Scottish prison, American documents published by WikiLeaks allege.
But there was nothing “improper” about this somehow.
We cannot let the little matter of international terrorism and mass murder get in the way of our precious corporate profits — that’s what limiting peoples’ civil liberties are for.
Good thing the American government doesn’t do stuff like this (casual whistling ensues). And that last statement is true because being an American, history usually matters only when it can be used on various sports teams’ message boards, or worshiping a version of the “founders” they’d laugh at three-fifths of the time. Besides, we’ll never get to see those Cheney Energy Task Force notes anyway.
