Originally Posted by mad_jock
Would have thought that it would be nigh on impossible to get the wheels any deeper. The water would be like concrete at that speed.
I've seen this sort of thing (on vid) before and wondered if the above is true. I can well imagine that the wheel tends to ride on the surface, and it would take a really hard push to get it to dig in. The picture of the guy surfing along in the T6 while looking at his formation partner seems to confirm that moderate forward stick pressure will hold the wheels just on the surface and you don't need to be looking ahead while doing this. But that plume of water could do nasty things to the tail with some aircraft if it hit it, I'd think.
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