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Old 25th May 2023, 01:04
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Water is nearly 1000X as dense as air - 10,000 feet of rolling through air is close to 10 feet of travel through water, or, in this case 100 foot wide canal, so, closer to a 100,000 ft runway equivalent.

Certainly some amount of speed bled off before the belly flop. Maybe it did a little skip?

It looks from the photos that there is pavement to the water's edge, unless they painted the sod an asphalt color with chevrons.
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