Originally Posted by
Airbubba
Looks like the tailwheel kicked up a puff of dirt before liftoff, maybe went off the left edge of the runway as the nose yawed right.
Can anyone confirm that the a/c was using the asphalt runway? Very hard to tell from the video - could almost be a grass runway. The asphalt runway is apparently only 75 ft wide - half the standard width. So not much room to recover from a severe swing. Perhaps the first exclamation from the camera operator was a response to the left main-wheel leaving the runway, as I think
Airbubba was implying in the above post?
KarlADrage,
I think the tail comes up briefly
after the swing has been corrected, but probably with the left main-wheel already on the grass.