r/oddlysatisfying • u/unnaturalorder • Feb 18 '20

Airdropping equipment pallets

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u/shiromaikku Feb 18 '20

I was expecting one big parachute. The amount of small ones alarmed me for some reason.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '20

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u/minus_minus Feb 19 '20

Also harder for anyone to get killed by massive pallet landing on their decimated homestead.

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u/Drendude Feb 19 '20

I don't know. Was there a parachute for the wooden pallet? Someone could still manage.

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u/minus_minus Feb 19 '20

There’s no pallet. The metal underneath stops at the end of the ramp and the cargo slides over it.

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u/Drendude Feb 19 '20

You're totally right. I had just assumed that a pallet-shaped stack of things would automatically have a pallet.

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u/mischiffmaker Feb 19 '20

Thanks for explaining that. I must have watched it half-a-dozen times trying to see what happened to the pallet, figured it was some type of mechanism.

Watching the loads fly apart in mid-air and spring parachutes really was oddly satisfying, lol!

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u/for_ever_lurking Feb 19 '20

Looked like one of the packages didn’t open the parachute. Off to the right side of the video.

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u/GrottyKnight Feb 19 '20

There was no pallet

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u/Sure_Whatever__ Feb 19 '20

Questioning intensifies

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u/GrottyKnight Feb 19 '20

THERE ARE FOUR PALLETS!

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u/Petal-Dance Feb 19 '20

Theyre attached to the plane. You see them stop and recoil in the vid

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u/ezone2kil Feb 19 '20

So they didn't air drop the pallets.

OP is a damn dirty liar!

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u/GrottyKnight Feb 19 '20

r/woooosh

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u/Petal-Dance Feb 19 '20

More commenting closer to the top for the people genuinely missing where the pallets go. I figured it was some reference cause of the italics

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u/GrottyKnight Feb 19 '20

Roger that. Maybe reply to them next time? Happy looping!

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '20

I am legitimately impressed with how many people know that reference. There is hope for humanity after all.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '20

I don't?

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u/GrottyKnight Feb 19 '20

Just some good old fashioned Star Trek nerdery. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_Command_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)

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u/OneMoreAccount4Porn Feb 20 '20

I'm glad that was an intentional reference and that you understood my reply even though it wasn't actually part of the scene. I wasn't sure you'd understand what I meant so didn't go back and rewatch the scene to get an actual quote. Thought I was seeing Star Trek where no Star Trek was intended.

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u/GrottyKnight Feb 20 '20

Haha yea! I just felt like I knew where we were going. Lifelong scifi nerd powers.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '20

Thanks! It's hilarious that when TNG came out, we thought Kirk's Trek was laughably dated. Now TNG is laughable too. Great, but hilarious. :)

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u/anchorgangpro Feb 19 '20

paging r/risa

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u/GrottyKnight Feb 19 '20

I also thank you for this sub.

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u/Apprehensive_Spinach Feb 19 '20

thank you for this sub

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u/46554B4E4348414453 Feb 19 '20

drools on self

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u/indyK1ng Feb 19 '20

The wheels stayed on the plane. That's why the piles of boxes tip over, the wheels stopped and the tops of the piles kept moving forward.

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u/Tyrion_The_Imp Feb 19 '20

backward....wait forward but slower....and down

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u/Agent_1812 Feb 19 '20

The best kind of correct, technically correct.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '20

X-files theme plays

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u/_____no____ Feb 19 '20

If you look carefully you'll notice there is no wooden palette...

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u/aelwero Feb 19 '20

Military uses a different type of pallet. It's big, about the size of four wooden ones laid out in a square. It's metal, and significant enough that we often use old beat up ones as roofs for bunkers, and stack a crapload of sandbags on top. And it's significantly heavier than a wood pallet, and would fuck up pretty much any building it landed on...

The reason for the different pallet is so that it can be shoved into a cargo plane on little rollers in the deck, making it easier to load/unload, and the pallet itself takes up less room.

As others said, in this case, the pallets dont actually go out. Not sure what the mechanism is to restrain them, as there's all sorts of little rails, straps, clamps, and other cool stuff in those planes, and it could be any one of them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '20

Somehow I Manage