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Pavel Sedlak
April 9th, 2010, 12:41 AM
(7. and 8. 4. 2010).
The U.S. president Barack Obama returned to the Czech capital this week to sign a new nuclear arms reduction deal with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev.

Landed here some interesting aircraft - Small airshow from the Prague airport (nuclear summit) on Vimeo

Colin McDonald
April 9th, 2010, 01:15 AM
Well done Pavel. Having tried a bit of filming planes I know it's not easy. Very interesting ... I was unaware that some aircraft can deploy thrust reversers in flight as at 2'05"
Thrust reversal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust_reversal) (see In Flight Operation). Pardon the liberty of my taking a screenshot:

Pavel Sedlak
April 9th, 2010, 01:32 AM
Yes, that is the interesting detail .-) .

Allan Black
April 9th, 2010, 02:01 AM
Well done Pavel. Having tried a bit of filming planes I know it's not easy. Very interesting ... I was unaware that some aircraft can deploy thrust reversers in flight as at 2'05"

Well spotted Col .. looks like he popped 'em a few seconds before touch down to make the turn off to that taxi strip.

Nice video Pavel, heavy security around the perimeter fence for Air Force One. There's an American voice in the tower too.
Cheers.

Pavel Sedlak
April 9th, 2010, 02:16 AM
Thank you, Allan.
Yes, security was heavy. It was good that we could go up to the fence around the airport runway. The police checked the identity of our (I don't speak english very well, so sorry that I can't tell more details)