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Though I'm not too familiar with P-51 internals Walter's comment reminded me of this spectacular P-51 engine failure followed by a successful crash-landing (this clip includes pilot commentary explaining key moments): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnODYKx5ics

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If you have the opportunity, post-Covid19, I recommend checking out one of these places that allow visitors to experience being blind. In Germany one such place may be found in Frankfurt, it's called DialogMuseum. I believe similar setups can be found in other countries too, someone mentioned the Netherlands. For me this visit was a bit of a revelation. The way it works is you book a guided tour, at that time they had 60 and 90 minutes options. You get there and are handed off a white cane and then enter through a corridor as a group led by a visually impaired guide who will take care of the group. From that point on, the place becomes professionally(!) pitch black, there is no slight source of light, the eyes cannot see anything wide open even even after the few minutes it would normally take to adjust, this actually triggers a feeling of uneasiness, and the guide carefully checks if anyone goes into a panic attack - there are actually exits you can be guided to if you can't follow the tour for any reason. The place is split into "rooms" which simulate different environments: you go to a park where you need to avoid hitting trees, then a boat ride that is a bit of a challenge to board, then trying to cross a street with a high curb and traffic light that you need to figure when it's safe and in the end we went to a bar where I just handed my wallet to the bartender since I could not figure out how to prepare the right amount of money - got the wallet back and actually they took just the right amount of money! The environments are built authentically at least feel that way to the touch or bump, and there's also sound effects for completion. That tour gave me a lot of insights and respect towards the everyday challenges a visually impaired person encounters, that I otherwise only theoretically had.

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The linked page states it's using Ubuntu 15.04 as OS, however 15.04 is marked as EOL-ed on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases Is there an easy OS upgrade path? I wonder why they did not go with an LTS release, 16.04 is just around the corner in April and would probably serve their release better.

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And maybe take that one step further: put everyone in a container/capsule and load the capsule out of the plane directly onto a rail vehicle which zaps down to main train station.

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