Red Bull pilot has lucky escape after binning it.

[eccles]

Seems this is the first official Red Bull crash, luckily the pilot only suffered minor injuries.

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/red-bull-plane-c...

[Wheelrepairit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGIydKxEoUo

Oh sheet

[M-J-B]

Lucky boy.

I've been saying for sometime, it's only a matter of time until someone dunks it in the drink

[Simpo Two]

Wheelrepairit said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGIydKxEoUo

Oh sheet

Not exactly a BBC Martin Brundle quality of commentary was it!

[Stew2000]

M-J-B said:

Lucky boy.

I've been saying for sometime, it's only a matter of time until someone dunks it in the drink

He dunked it properly.
Surviving is one thing but over 30 years of whiplash to put up with now is not a very enjoyable thing.

[Mr_B]

on-board footage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzdcvb3w3go&fea...

[Simpo Two]

Mr_B said:

on-board footage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzdcvb3w3go&fea...

'Plain' Dear me.

Looks like he lost too much speed, saw the water coming up and stalled it.

[JW911]

Looks like he pulled too hard, stalled in the turn, unloaded to get the wing flying again and put it in the drink as he didn't have enough height to recover. At least the wings were level. Good effort considering.

[eccles]

anonymous said:

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It seems to me they are quite different disciplines, and really the only common ground is the fact it's aircraft in competition.