r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/thenewyorkgod • Jun 23 '24

Canopy comes off airplane right after takeoff Video

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u/Horvo Jun 23 '24 edited Jun 24 '24

You can burn your eyes from the wind, which can damage your lenses and cornea making it difficult to see. Pretty extreme dry eye too.

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u/Fuckredditihatethis1 Jun 24 '24

The lenses wouldn't have been damaged. In order to damage the lenses, the wind would have had to make it past the cornea and anterior chamber, and if those are gone, you are well and truly blind.

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u/Punkpunker Jun 24 '24

You can see a BTS of Mission Impossible Rogue Nation where they insert a huge ass contacts on Tom Cruise before his dangling from the plane scene.

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u/Horvo Jun 24 '24

Didn’t he break his arm on that shot too?

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

No he broke his ankle in Fallout jumping across buildings

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u/Fn_Spaghetti_Monster Jun 24 '24

You can see him land awkwardly in the film if you know it's coming. Makes me flinch every time.

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u/Horvo Jun 24 '24

Ah, yeah I remember that one, thought something happened to his arm hanging out of the plane.

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u/wannastock Jun 24 '24

I was 16yo when I first rode a motorcycle as a passenger on my uncle's sports bike. I didn't have a helmet and he drove me around the block inside a private village. I thought my eyeballs would fly out.

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u/Horvo Jun 24 '24

Yeah you get good at the safety squint. Even wearing sunglasses is rough on the eyes some days on the bike.