FedEx Planes dodging thunderstorms

[mzkhadir]

Google Video

 

[Goosemaster]

oldie but a goodie

 

[Pocatello]

Cool. It looks like a bunch of ants scurrying around.

 

[d3n]

Nice, its like watching ants.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Wow that's pretty sweet! I've never seen such a thing before. Its funny how jsut as the storm reached the airport, all the planes scatter but two or three went ahead and landed anyway. Those are the bold pilots, not the old pilots.

 

[Yzzim]

How come a couple went back while others were landing?

 

[Alone]

Wtf?

 

[theGlove]

those are all fedex planes? how many freeaking planes to they have?

 

[ViviTheMage]

WEIRD

 

[d3n]

Originally posted by: Yzzim
How come a couple went back while others were landing?

Looks like they diverted to St Louis or Dallas. Maybe a special truck pickup or to try again tomorrow.


The hub for UPS in Louisville probably has just as many planes.

 

[lozina]

Lol watching that I see a mess of plans make for the airport but then the thunderstorm beats them and they scamper off flying around in random directions btu then they started to disappear one by one. I was like WTF are they crashing? Then I realized there's probably several airports there they have diverted to ...

 

[Savij]

Originally posted by: theGlove
those are all fedex planes? how many freeaking planes to they have?

"FedEx is the 2nd largest airline in the world by fleet. Only American Airlines is bigger."

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: lozina
Lol watching that I see a mess of plans make for the airport but then the thunderstorm beats them and they scamper off flying around in random directions...

I laughed at that too. Come on, we can make it!. Oh Crap, Turn around!

 

[lozina]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor

Originally posted by: lozina
Lol watching that I see a mess of plans make for the airport but then the thunderstorm beats them and they scamper off flying around in random directions...

I laughed at that too. Come on, we can make it!. Oh Crap, Turn around!

Hehe, I was picturing Monty Python Holy Grail style "Run away! Run away!"

 

[Q]

I love that one that just left the state after a while

 

[lozina]

Originally posted by: Quintox
I love that one that just left the state after a while

That's Captain Cartman

"Screw you guys, I'm going home!"

 

[Ipno]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor

Originally posted by: lozina
Lol watching that I see a mess of plans make for the airport but then the thunderstorm beats them and they scamper off flying around in random directions...

I laughed at that too. Come on, we can make it!. Oh Crap, Turn around!

Like the knights when they faced the rabbit ... "RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!"

 

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: Savij

Originally posted by: theGlove
those are all fedex planes? how many freeaking planes to they have?

"FedEx is the 2nd largest airline in the world by fleet. Only American Airlines is bigger."

I worked at the FedEx hub in Indianapolis a few years ago. Lots of planes came in every night (not sure exactly how many), but the Memphis hub is approximately 10x the size of the Indy one (Memphis is biggest, followed by Indy). They told a story during orientation of a new guy at the Memphis hub who got lost trying to get back to his car. He wandered around the hub all night until someone finally found him the next morning and helped him back to the parking lot. I'm not at all surprised by the number of planes in this video.

 

[theknight571]

If I'm reading it right... according to the 2004 Annual Report they had (as of 2004) 645 aircraft in their fleet, and roughly 196,000 employee/contractors.

Reference #'s... ones I find at least:

United: 460 aircraft & 57,000 employees (as of 12/05)
Continental: 356 aircraft & 42,000 employees (as of 12/05)
UPS: 268 Owned, 309 Leased, 39 on order, 10 options, aircraft & 407,000 employees
American & American Eagle: 1,001 aircraft & 88,400 employees

 

[Juno]

wow nice

 

[Epic Fail]

Where is Tom Hanks?

 

[rivan]

:thumbsup:

 

[blackllotus]

Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
Wow that's pretty sweet! I've never seen such a thing before. Its funny how jsut as the storm reached the airport, all the planes scatter but two or three went ahead and landed anyway. Those are the bold pilots, not the old pilots.

To let those airplanes land was the decision of the airport, not of the pilots.

 

[AmigaMan]

Originally posted by: yamadakun
Where is Tom Hanks?

duh, his dumbass is stuck in the middle of the pacific on some island.

 

[spidey07]

The UPS main hub in Louisville...

It's miles from your car to the hub. You can see them steadily taking off at night. One right after the other. To say they have a steep takeoff angle out be an understatement.