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Title: Hot asphalt likes tasty airplanes as much as GS's!
Post by: Caffeine on May 14, 2006, 02:08:37 AM
Just a lesson about hot asphalt and/or tarmac.

http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/05/12/Navigation/177/206560/Pictures+The+mysterious+case+of+the+melted+tarmac+and+sunken+Gulfstream+GV+business.html

Carry on.
Title: Re: Hot asphalt likes tasty airplanes as much as GS's!
Post by: GeeP on May 14, 2006, 09:01:31 AM
Wouldn't be the first time, nor will it be the last.   :laugh:

I use a $0.50 octagon box cover under my sidestand.  The keyhole is perfect for attaching a string to pull it up.
Title: Re: Hot asphalt likes tasty airplanes as much as GS's!
Post by: weaselnoze on May 14, 2006, 09:41:59 AM
looks like bullshit hoax to me.  in one of the pictures it looks so fake and u can even see some jpeg artifacts around the sunken wheel
Title: Re: Hot asphalt likes tasty airplanes as much as GS's!
Post by: natedawg120 on May 14, 2006, 11:27:03 AM
yeah that has to be a hoax.  The only way it would have sank that much is if there was a sink hole under the asphalt but in those pics there is clearly not a hole in the ground around the wheel.  And it does appear that there has been editing to the photos.
Title: Re: Hot asphalt likes tasty airplanes as much as GS's!
Post by: un1261 on May 14, 2006, 12:37:42 PM
 :o
This reminds me...I got awoken by my neighbor the other night. My poor GS was laying on it's side, damn rain.  :2guns:  Big dent in top of tank, cracked fairing and a broken clutch level.
Title: Re: Hot asphalt likes tasty airplanes as much as GS's!
Post by: porsche4786 on May 14, 2006, 04:15:30 PM
could be true, my grandpa was mowing his lawn one day about 20 years ago, and he was kinda talking to his neighbor while doing it, he turned around and his neighbor was gone, turns out he sank down into the ground about 7 feet!  :o crazy.
Title: Re: Hot asphalt likes tasty airplanes as much as GS's!
Post by: Noltz on May 14, 2006, 06:25:12 PM
Private airstrip, I'd believe it.   We're getting sink holes up here like crazy.   There's a major corner in Toronto, can't remember the intersection, but it dropped like 12 feet.  It's shut down for at least 4 months while they rebuild it.

Usually, watermain leaks underground cause the errosion.  That was the case in Toronto.
Title: Re: Hot asphalt likes tasty airplanes as much as GS's!
Post by: Egaeus on May 14, 2006, 10:15:23 PM
Quote from: weaselnoze on May 14, 2006, 09:41:59 AM
looks like bullshit hoax to me.  in one of the pictures it looks so fake and u can even see some jpeg artifacts around the sunken wheel
What do JPEG artifacts have to do with whether it's a hoax or not.