Haflinger buggy USL in NI & T_M wondering which bit of it was going to fall off first. Describe to front crew the reg plate* doing 360s around the last remaining rivet. Or the seat now only held on by one very loose nut and bolt banging happily in the airflow. Or the canvas roll-up on the front that was tied up with shoelace knots of which one had become undone and the other was loosening.
Copilot VDB climbs out of seat to stare down below at events previously described and gets sudden onset of vertigo. Returns to front just as first (& only) event occurs. The rolled up canvas finally breaks free and unwravels itself, releasing the half dozen metre long metal stakes (that were not known about) to descend earthwards together at VNE from about 2000' agl.
Happily over farmland so nothing futher to report and the farmer will never know how the spikes got there.
*all haflingers had RN number plates so blame if lost would have been a done deal.
Last edited by Tiger_mate; 18th Jun 2012 at 21:06.