Yak Prop clearance?
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Yak Prop clearance?
sorry if it's been posted before - I've just seen it for the first time
http://www.stevesairshow.com/videos/...4-yak-close.rm
http://www.stevesairshow.com/videos/...4-yak-close.rm
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From: Too close to Croydon for comfort
Final few feet appear to be distinctly nose up - wouldn't mind betting they found some scratches in the paintwork on that rad housing aft of the cockpit! Very lucky lad... think he can be excused the laundry bill!
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Shades of the tragic Spitfire crash at Woodford a decade or so ago.... But this guy, amazingly, got away with it by about as tiny a margin as possible.
I, too, was amazed he rolled it after that. And I love the brief hesitation in commentry when it looks like he's going in, to be quickly resumed when he makes that amazing escape from forever wearing a pair of permanent wings.
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I, too, was amazed he rolled it after that. And I love the brief hesitation in commentry when it looks like he's going in, to be quickly resumed when he makes that amazing escape from forever wearing a pair of permanent wings.
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From: Too close to Croydon for comfort
Andrews AFB last weekend.
From what I have gleaned from another site, there is a wide ditch alongside the runway (shades of Oshkosh: those of you who have been there will know what I mean) which gives a slightly better clearance than it might appear. So he apparently didn't touch the ar$e of...
The low recovery was unintentional (well, I should hope so!) and he got away with it and flew the following day as well... presumably having raised the act a trifle! Not sure the CAA would have sanctioned that...
From what I have gleaned from another site, there is a wide ditch alongside the runway (shades of Oshkosh: those of you who have been there will know what I mean) which gives a slightly better clearance than it might appear. So he apparently didn't touch the ar$e of...
The low recovery was unintentional (well, I should hope so!) and he got away with it and flew the following day as well... presumably having raised the act a trifle! Not sure the CAA would have sanctioned that...
