{"id":16260,"date":"2012-05-01T02:06:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T00:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16260"},"modified":"2012-05-01T02:06:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T00:06:09","slug":"discovery-channel-crashes-a-boeing-727-for-science-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/01\/discovery-channel-crashes-a-boeing-727-for-science-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Channel Crashes a Boeing 727 For Science Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/04\/30\/0212230\/discovery-channel-crashes-a-boeing-727-for-science-documentary\">Slashdot reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Boeing 727 passenger jet has been deliberately crash-landed. The pilot ejected just minutes before the collision. The plane was packed with scientific experiments, including crash test dummies. Dozens of cameras recorded the crash from inside the aircraft, on the ground, in chase planes and even on the ejecting pilot&#8217;s helmet. All of this was done for a feature length documentary to be shown on the Discovery Channel later this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First of all, hats of to Discovery. \u00a0That&#8217;s some serious undertaking!<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, just trying to imagine the meeting where this project has been approved makes me smile. \u00a0It must have been either too serious or too fun &#8211; either a preparation of the business plan, Gantt charts, discussion of the budgets and milestones; &#8230; or a &#8220;light bulb&#8221; idea in the morning after a huge part, and an after party.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Slashdot reports: A Boeing 727 passenger jet has been deliberately crash-landed. The pilot ejected just minutes before the collision. The plane was packed with scientific experiments, including crash test dummies. Dozens of cameras recorded the crash from inside the aircraft, on the ground, in chase planes and even on the ejecting pilot&#8217;s helmet. All of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/01\/discovery-channel-crashes-a-boeing-727-for-science-documentary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Discovery Channel Crashes a Boeing 727 For Science Documentary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2998,944,1115,655,860],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-discovery-channel","tag-entertainment","tag-experiments","tag-science","tag-television"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9396,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/30\/the-sweetest-sound-ever\/","url_meta":{"origin":16260,"position":0},"title":"The sweetest sound ever","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 30, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"My absolutely most favorite sound in the whole wide world is the sound of Maxim laughing (WAV, 60 KBytes, recorded with my mobile). 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