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Old 5th Sep 2009, 22:54
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Wiley
 
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I've told the story before here on Pprune, but I'll repeat it - I saw the 'bou do something even more impressive than that. (I think it was) Al Field was doing his final rehearsal for the '71 Richmond airshow in the 'bou and there was a 30 gusting to 40 knot wind blowing, more or less straight down the runway (R/W10). (Which made the staying in front of the crowd in the aeros sequences really interesting!)

I was at the threshold waiting (with a 'bou in finals with a wind like that, it was more a matter of "waiting... waiting...") to get airborne and Al brought the 'bou in and plonked it onto the threshold marking - and that's where it stopped. It may have rolled for four or five feet, but the aircraft came to a stop still on the bars.

The wind wasn't nearly so strong on the day of the display, so the short field landing wasn't nealy so impressive that day.
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