Unintentional Air Race Sea Plane

[rhinochopig]

http://www.break.com/index/plane-nearly-crashes-in...

Incredible - how he saved that is amazing. That is one lucky chap!

[hman]

sort of skims it across the surface!


very suprised that his fixed undercarriage doesnt drag him into a forward flip ( as it wouldnt take much for the prop to touch at that moment either).

I bet he shat em.

[eharding]

hman said:

very suprised that his fixed undercarriage doesnt drag him into a forward flip ( as it wouldnt take much for the prop to touch at that moment either).

I was always of the opinion that in order to complete a ditching in the Pitts with the aircraft sitting upright in the water, the only way the achieve this would be to ditch inverted and rely on the resulting somersault around the top wing to finish upright.

.....and no, I don't think I'd have the stones to do that either: with the result that you'd have a 100% expectation of being strapped in a water filled cockpit in an inverted airframe.

He was very, very lucky to get away with that - and amazing that he just lost the spat - although the metal gear leg on the MX seems to be a lot more sturdy than the composite items on an Extra.

[IforB]

Holy cow. How did he get away with that?

Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky b*stard.

[kiteless]

It'll be a long time before they pull the seat out of that pilot's arse

[FuzzyLogic]

JDMFanYo said:

5th repost. awsome!

You really haven't got anything better to do have you... we can't all spend every 5 minutes on here.

[FourWheelDrift]

JDMFanYo said:

5th repost. awsome!

If you post "repost" you have to provide a link. And if it's in a different forum, The Lounge for example it doesn't count, can only be a repost if it is in this forum and recently posted.