Firewart

play like a champion today

[Dan the Man @danschyk]

Sunwapta Falls

[Oilers Now with Bob Stauffer @OilersNow]

May 31st, 1987

@Bob_Stauffer in Clearwater, B.C. on the day the Oilers won their third Stanley Cup!

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Remember when Robbie Knievel launched his motorcycle across the Grand Canyon? The landing was absolutely brutal, sending massive clouds of dust and debris exploding into the air.

Following the tradition of high-risk stunts that fascinated American audiences in the late twentieth century, Robbie Knievel attempted one of the most daring motorcycle jumps ever imagined by soaring across the immense Grand Canyon. Carrying on the legacy of his legendary father, Evel Knievel, Robbie accelerated toward the canyon’s edge at full speed, where raw physics and human ambition met in dramatic fashion.

As the motorcycle flew through the desert sky above the massive canyon, thousands of spectators watched in suspense while cameras captured every second of the breathtaking leap. The landing was as punishing as expected, with the bike smashing onto the opposite rim and sending enormous clouds of red desert dust exploding into the air, briefly swallowing both rider and machine from sight.

The stunt perfectly reflected the era’s obsession with extreme spectacle, when the divide between glory and catastrophe was razor thin and daredevils pushed human courage to its limits for the roar of the crowd and a place in history.

[Dan the Man @danschyk]

Lake Louise

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

From 1970 to 1992, the Canada Fitness Award Program pushed Canadian youth to focus on health and fitness.
An entire generation of Canadian children have memories (some good, some bad) of taking part in the program.
This is the story.

📸 Reditt (ipini)

🧵 1/10

[Dan the Man @danschyk]

Cascade Ponds

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

“The plane went silent.”

That’s what passengers aboard British Airways Flight 9 remembered most.

Not screaming.
Not alarms.

Silence.

On June 24, 1982, the Boeing 747 was flying over Java at 37,000 feet with 247 passengers onboard when Senior Engineer Barry Townley-Freeman noticed engine temperatures rising dangerously fast.

Then passengers started calling flight attendants:

“There’s something glowing outside the window.”

Blue light flickered through the engines.
White sparks danced across the wings.

It looked beautiful.

In the cockpit, Captain Eric Moody watched Engine 4 fail.

Then Engine 2.
Then 1.
Then 3.

Within minutes, all four engines were dead.

A fully loaded 747 became a powerless glider descending toward the Indian Ocean.

No thrust.
Barely any radio communication.
No idea what caused it.

Passengers woke from sleep to something deeply unnatural:

The absence of engine noise.

At 37,000 feet, a jetliner should roar.

Instead, there was only wind.

Captain Moody got on the intercom and delivered one of aviation history’s most famous announcements:

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.”

Some passengers thought it was a joke.

The flight attendants’ faces said otherwise.

What nobody onboard knew was that the plane had flown directly through a volcanic ash cloud from Mount Galunggung.

The ash was made of microscopic glass particles.

Inside the engines, the particles melted at extreme temperatures and coated the turbines like cement, suffocating all four engines one by one.

At 15,000 feet, oxygen masks deployed.

At 12,000 feet, the crew prepared for a night ditching into the ocean.

Captain Moody knew the odds of surviving a water landing in a 747 were almost nonexistent.

Then he tried restarting the engines one final time.

Engine 4 sputtered.
Caught.
Then another.
Then another.

All four engines roared back to life.

But the nightmare still wasn’t over.

The volcanic ash had sandblasted the cockpit windshield so badly the pilots could barely see through it.

Captain Moody had to land a damaged 747 at night using only a tiny clear section of the side window while his first officer called out altitude and distance manually.

Against every odd, the aircraft landed safely in Jakarta.

Every single person onboard survived.

After the incident, volcanic ash became a globally monitored aviation hazard.

And Captain Eric Moody’s calm announcement became legendary — still taught today as a masterclass in crisis leadership:

Tell the truth.
Stay calm.
Give people dignity.

Even when you’re falling out of the sky.

[Dan the Man @danschyk]

Lac Beauvert

[Firewart @firewart]

@IndignantBeaver

[Dan the Man @danschyk]

Pyramid Island, Jasper

[Dan the Man @danschyk]

Vermilion Lakes, Banff

[Philadelphia Flyers @NHLFlyers]

Hang it in the Art Museum.

[Philadelphia Flyers @NHLFlyers]

Just 3.8% better. #IgniteTheOrange

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Ever since I saw a photo like this in 2018 I wanted to do this.

It took me 8 years, but I finally got it.

[Sportsnet @Sportsnet]

After a microphone issue in Buffalo, the entire crowd helps with the singing of O Canada ahead of Game 5 👏

[Dan the Man @danschyk]

Edmonton skyline

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 1991, Michael Moschen turned juggling into kinetic poetry, weaving balls and a triangle with rhythm, balance, and physics like never before.

[Dan the Man @danschyk]

Emerald Lake

[Dan the Man @danschyk]

Morant's Curve